Our columnist takes a look at recent books by Sofia Samatar, Vajra Chandrasekera and Emet North. By Amal El-Mohtar Amal El-Mohtar is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist. She is a ...

Edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman. Tachyon, $16.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-61696-257-9 This excellent anthology showcases up-and-coming speculative fiction writers, many of whom have ...

This slowly-unraveling, exquisitely-detailed novel made the poet Sofia Samatar a World Fantasy Award winner and a Nebula Award finalist. It follows Jevick, a young writer who is obsessed with the ...

In the future world of Sofia Samatar’s “The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain,” a boy with no name works on a chain gang in the dark and lower decks—known as the Hold—of a massive spaceship. He was ...

From PEN Award winner Samatar (The White Mosque) comes a brutal, haunting, yet ultimately uplifting novella examining capitalism and labor exploitation through the lens of science fiction. “The boy,” ...

Samatar weaves superstition, religion, politics, and a strong love of reading into a biography of Jissavet, a simple illiterate girl who has died young. The frame story depicts Jevick of Tyom’s first ...

Anyone writing a memoir wonders just what they’re up to, pulling together the scattered materials of experience and library work, but few express that struggle with the poetry of Sofia Samatar. She ...

Sci-fi writer Samatar (The Winged Histories) strays from her imagined worlds to excavate a very real past in this fascinating look at her religious heritage. In the summer of 2016, the author—a ...