Fiction book reviews and critiques
From Margaret Atwood with her sinister Handmaid's Tale to Stephen King in his Sleeping Beauties made chrysalis in a world apart. Just two examples to shore up a science fiction genre that turns feminism on its head to approach it from a disturbing perspective. In this …
We traveled very far to undertake a task of absolute introspection made in Olga Ravn. Paradoxes that only science fiction can assume with possibilities of narrative transcendence. Since the estrangement of a spaceship, moved through the cosmos under some icy symphony born of the very big bang, we know some...
The war intrastories make up the most noir scenario possible, the one that awakens aromas of survival, cruelty, alienation and a remote hope. Claudel composes this mosaic of stories with a diversity of focuses depending on the proximity or distance with which each narration is sighted. The short narrative has that great…
From the deepest shadows sometimes return victims who have been able to escape the most unfortunate fate. It is not just a matter of this fiction by Donato Carrisi because precisely in it we find reflections of that part of black history that extends to almost anywhere. It could be that…
Every author who ventures into science fiction, including the menda (see my book Alter), on some occasion considers the issue of cloning because of its double component between the scientific and the moral. Dolly the sheep as the supposed first clone of a mammal is already very …
I was one of the "lucky" children who wore glasses from very early on, and even a patch to try to wake up the lazy eye. So a book like this one would surely have come in handy to turn my "magnifying glasses" into a magical element with which to arouse the fascination of...
For problems that are not. Even more so when one belongs to the underworld for the mere fact of being. The disinherited suffer in the first instance the lashes of power to preserve the status quo. Defending these types of people is becoming devil's advocate. But is that Mosley ...
A few months after appearing in Galician, we can also enjoy this great little story in Spanish. Knowing the taste of Manuel Rivas for squeezing the intrahistorical (and until the moment of being touched by his pen even anecdotally), we know that we are facing one of those committed plots and…
The Víctor del Árbol stamp takes on its own entity thanks to a narrative that crosses the noir genre to achieve greater relevance towards the most unexpected extremes. Because the tortured souls that inhabit the plots of this author bring us closer to life events as if devastated by circumstances. Characters …
Draw on uchronies or dystopias to provide a sociological vision. A very common resource in literature. From Aldous Huxley to George Orwell, as the most recognized references of a XNUMXth century that pointed precisely to a world peeking out at another type of dictatorship, buried beyond what is strictly political. …
Time travel freaks me out as an argument. Because it is a full science fiction starting point that often turns into something else. The impossible longing to transcend time, the nostalgia of what we were and the remorse for wrong decisions. Is …
The Wild West and the Gold Rush. As the fledgling United States expanded westward, fortune seekers also formed their own expeditions in the mid-XNUMXth century. Lights and shadows for adventurers of all kinds to conquer a wild territory. Wild especially in the …