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March 5, 2021

Heroes and Gods

A review of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Gods of Jade and Shadow (Del Rey, 2020) By Derek Newman-Stille Gods of Jade and Shadow is a discourse on the Hero’s Journey while it also serves to disrupt that cycle. Silvia Moreno-Garcia presents readers with a girl in a fairy tale circumstance, being used and abused by her family. But Cassiopeia doesn’t seek out...

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December 5, 2018

Not Malfunctioning

Not Malfunctioning A review of Fiona Patton’s “I Am Not Broken” in Over the Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins (Exile, 2018) By Derek Newman-Stille In our ableist society, disability is treated as a flaw, as a malfunction. In “I Am Not Broken”, Fiona Patton explores the problematic assumptions about disability by abstracting the image of malfunctioning onto...

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August 18, 2015

Sands of Time and Landscapes of Memory

A Review of Marie Bilodeau’s Nigh Book Two (S&G Publishing, 2014) By Derek Newman-Stille Memory, made of time and place and story, shapes Marie Bilodeau’s Nigh Book 2, a tale about the return of the faeries and the collision of human and faerie cultures. Like the first book of Nigh, this book explores the power of the slippery landscape, changing...

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September 11, 2014

CyberSexualities

A review of Don Bassingthwaite’s “Who Plays with Sin” in Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian Writing: Science Fiction (The Overlook Press, 1999). By Derek Newman-Stille Cyberpunk, with its attraction to marginalized characters who live on the edge, has needed to be queered for some time, so it is refreshing to encounter a fantastic queering of the genre by...

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August 16, 2014

Superheroic Questions

A review of Northguard Book One: Manifest Destiny by Mark Shainblum and Garbriel Morrissette (Caliber Press, 1989) Comic books are often treated as a lower form of culture and considered to be pure pleasure reading without intellectual interest, but comic books, like any other form of text, offer a vision of the world around us and the speculative nature of...

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June 6, 2014

Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 6: Canadian Queer SF

As a queer man, do you know what I want to see: a sci fi novel in which one of the typical space bros says “yo fags, no homo” and instantly has his head bitten off by a glitter-wearing, feather boa carrying alien, who instantly spits it out and says “No hate, bro”; or a femmbot who decides that since...

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May 10, 2013

Quote – Nothing but Defiance Against Reality

“All his actions were nothing more than the petty rebellions of a schoolboy, gestures of defiance to the brutal, relentless authority of reality.” -Nancy Baker – A Terrible Beauty (Penguin Books, 1996)

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Heroes and Gods

Not Malfunctioning

Sands of Time and Landscapes of Memory

CyberSexualities

Superheroic Questions

Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 6: Canadian Queer SF

Quote – Nothing but Defiance Against Reality