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Recommended Reading: Gold Fame Citrus

This week I'm recommending Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins, which is a bit of a dystopia and a bit of a post-apocalypse and a bit of magical realism and is the latest book I've read set in the American Southwest. In the near future, drought has rendered the Southwestern United States nearly uninhabitable. A mountain-high sea dune … Continue reading Recommended Reading: Gold Fame Citrus

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February 16, 2016August 13, 2017Claire Vaye Watkins, Dystopia, Gold Fame Citrus, Magical realism, Post-apocalyptic fiction, Recommended Reading, Southwestern fictionLeave a comment
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Recommended Reading: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Days is a new magical realism novel by Salman Rushdie. In the twelfth century, a female jinn (a jinnia) called Dunia fell in love with a philosopher and bore many children, whose descendants were part-jinn, part-human. A thousand years later, the slits between earth and the world of the jinn reopened, sparking … Continue reading Recommended Reading: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

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September 10, 2015July 15, 2016Magical realism, Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight DaysLeave a comment
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The slippery genre of slipstream…

Of all the sub-genres crowded under the broad umbrella of "speculative fiction," slipstream is probably the trickiest to nail down. Bruce Sterling, who coined the term, called slipstream "...a kind of writing which simply makes you feel very strange; the way that living in the twentieth century makes you feel, if you are a person of a certain sensibility." (Presumably, … Continue reading The slippery genre of slipstream…

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August 6, 2015Genres, Interstitial fiction, Magical realism, New Weird, Reading list, Slipstream, Speculative fiction, Weird1 Comment

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