by marissa | Mar 30, 2019 | Fantasy
I stumbled across this beautiful quote by GRRM on why he writes fantasy – how great is this? It so perfectly captures my love for fantasy, science fiction and all its wild colors. We fantasy readers are the children who dreamed of hunting the forests at night...
by marissa | Jun 5, 2018 | Book Reviews, Fantasy, Science Fiction, SFF Classics
I recently re-read HP Lovecraft’s The Shadow Out of Time for an SFF Audio Podcast episode. It’s one of my favorite Lovecraft stories because it’s got all that obligatory cosmic horror, primordial masonry, and “unguessable...
by marissa | Mar 30, 2015 | Book Reviews, Science Fiction
SFF Audio had me back on their podcast for another Philip K Dick episode with Jesse Willis and Paul Weimar. This time we talked about Eye in the Sky (1957), which is now one of my favorite PKDs… it’s got a religious world where religious beliefs are literal; a...
by marissa | Jan 4, 2014 | Book Reviews
“For certain people and in certain times, self-control is a luxury, not a virtue. And I have never been rich enough to afford it consistently.” The Last Bad Job is a dark, weird apocalyptic trip with profanity, paranoia, and comedy–a beautiful elemental mix. The...
by marissa | Aug 20, 2013 | Book Reviews, Science Fiction, SFF Classics
My review of Philip K. Dick’s A Maze of Death is up over at SFF Audio. This was one of those books that started off weird, got weirder, and ended weird, and got better the more I thought about it. It’s probably not the best title to start with if you are...
