Author Archives: Stefan (Far Beyond Reality)

Meanwhile at the Discussion Group: November 2013

The name of this website was inspired by the Beyond Reality discussion group, which has been around for almost two decades in various forms and which I’ve been managing for more than half of that time. Because this site’s name took … Continue reading

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The Sunlit Horse by Yoon Ha Lee

I recently became a patron of the arts! Well, sort of. You see, Yoon Ha Lee (who earlier this year released the utterly brilliant short story collection Conservation of Shadows – here’s my review) decided to raise some money by … Continue reading

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Debris by Jo Anderton

Tanyana is a talented and celebrated architect. She’s one of the elite, someone who can control “pions,” allowing her to manipulate matter with a thought. She’s high up in the air, working on a towering statue, shaping the raw matter … Continue reading

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Fortune’s Pawn by Rachel Bach

Fortune’s Pawn is the story of a talented space mercenary who is addicted to adrenaline, drinks like a fish, sleeps around, and wants nothing more than to become a member of the elite force known as the Devastators. Thanks to raw … Continue reading

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Burning Paradise by Robert Charles Wilson

As similar as the reality in Robert Charles Wilson’s new novel Burning Paradise may seem to ours, it’s actually very different. The world is preparing to celebrate a Century of Peace since the 1914 Armistice that ended the Great War. There was … Continue reading

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Parasite by Mira Grant

In Mira Grant’s new novel Parasite, a major new scientific development has transformed the medical world: the Intestinal Bodyguard is a genetically engineered parasite that lives in your bowels and can secrete drugs directly into your digestive tract. It’s nothing … Continue reading

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Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear

This review turned out a bit rambly, but I’m too lazy to self-edit today, so I’m going to cut to the chase and place my overall opinion right up front for anyone who doesn’t feel like reading over a thousand … Continue reading

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The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski

It’s been about a decade since Brain Plague, Joan Slonczewski’s last novel, came out, but I’d bet good money that more people remember the author for a novel that’s by now, unbelievably, already 25 years old — the wonderful and memorable A … Continue reading

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Jewels in the Dust by Peter Crowther

I’d never read anything by Peter Crowther before Jewels in the Dust, a new collection of thirteen stories published between 1996 and 2006 and collected here for the first time. I was, however, very familiar with Crowther’s name, mainly as one … Continue reading

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Lookin’ Good: Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, Eds. Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall

Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond is a new anthology offering a generous 40 pieces of short fiction by such authors as Lauren Beukes, Tobias Buckell, Junot Díaz, Kiini Ibura Salaam, N.K. Jemisin, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Sofia Samatar and Nisi Shawl, just to … Continue reading

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