Metaphysical Circus

The Metaphysical Circus

Fiction

Blindness

Dimitra Nikolaidou

“Sometimes you do a thing because it is the only arrow you have left in your quiver. You do it, not because you have a brilliant plan, but because if you do nothing your soul withers and dies.”

Book Review

Volk: A Novel of Radiant Abomination, by David Nickle

Paul StJohn Mackintosh

"There is no strident simplistic chest-thumping: the arguments, as well as the historical facts, are very well explored, and the often horrific consequences are demonstrated with great imagination."

Book Review

The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemisin

Paul StJohn Mackintosh

"Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky."

Fiction

The Wardrobe

Matthew Sanborn Smith

"They pushed past the eighth layer of clothing. This was as deep as he’d dared go his first night in the house, once he’d realized what he had here."

Book Review

Nutshell, by Ian McEwan

J. S. Loveard

"Now I live inside a story and fret about its outcome."

Book Review

The Emerald Circus, by Jane Yolen

William Grabowski

"[A] very large yellow butterfly with black spots like microchips on its wings; flying toward her: It had a scrunched-up, old man’s brown face, with wrinkles, sort of pruney, she thought."

Reviews

The Sorcerer’s House, by Gene Wolfe

Entropy in Bloom, by Jeremy Robert Johnson

Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow

FICTION

The Lost Books of the Painter’s Wife

Diane Glancy

Errantry

Elizabeth Hand

Summon Up The Blood

Michael Canfield

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Fiction

Blindness

Dimitra Nikolaidou

“Sometimes you do a thing because it is the only arrow you have left in your quiver. You do it, not because you have a brilliant plan, but because if you do nothing your soul withers and dies.”

Book Review

Volk: A Novel of Radiant Abomination, by David Nickle

Paul StJohn Mackintosh

"There is no strident simplistic chest-thumping: the arguments, as well as the historical facts, are very well explored, and the often horrific consequences are demonstrated with great imagination."

Book Review

The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemisin

Paul StJohn Mackintosh

"Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky."

Fiction

The Wardrobe

Matthew Sanborn Smith

"They pushed past the eighth layer of clothing. This was as deep as he’d dared go his first night in the house, once he’d realized what he had here."

Book Review

Nutshell, by Ian McEwan

J. S. Loveard

"Now I live inside a story and fret about its outcome."

Book Review

The Emerald Circus, by Jane Yolen

William Grabowski

"[A] very large yellow butterfly with black spots like microchips on its wings; flying toward her: It had a scrunched-up, old man’s brown face, with wrinkles, sort of pruney, she thought."