Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all our followers from the Skiffy & Fanty blog team! … Please let us know if there are things in 2024 that you are particularly looking forward to, or if there are any topics or features you’d like to see here on Skiffy & Fanty.

Book Review: Rosalind’s Siblings, edited by Bogi Takács

Cover of Rosalind's Siblings

If you missed Rosalind’s Siblings when it was published in September 2023, please consider adding it to your reading list for the new year. It’s a very interesting anthology of speculative fiction and poems, containing some fascinating ideas and characters and some really beautiful language.

Book Review: A Death at the Dionysus Club, by Amy Griswold and Melissa Scott

Cover of A Death at the Dionysus Club, by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold. Shows two men, one blond and one dark-haired, both looking serious, in Edwardian-era-style clothes.

I really enjoy how A Death at the Dionysus Club builds out from Death by Silver, expanding the lives of the protagonists and connected characters as well as the worldbuilding. … the puzzles are intriguing, the perils are exciting, and it’s great how the lovers end up standing for and standing by each other.

Book Review: Atoms Never Touch by micha cárdenas

Cover, Atoms Never Touch, by micha cárdenas

The latest title in this collection, Atoms Never Touch by multidisciplinary artist, poet, filmmaker, and professor micha cárdenas, takes these foundational concepts of activism and applies them through fiction to tell a story of relationships and autonomous agency.

Book Review: The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

Kameron Hurley starts 2019 off with a flash of light and a hell of a story. The Light Brigade, releasing March 19, pulls readers into a future where corporations run the world instead of traditional governments, and Mars is an active warzone. To fight against the Martians, soldiers are broken down into light, scattered into […]