Professor emeritus at Roosevelt University; science fiction and fantasy critic and reviewer for Locus Magazine & Chicago Tribune.

Chicago
Joined September 2009
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Read @garykwolfe’s review of THE SLANTWISE HISTORIES by @alixeharrow.bsky.social: “serves as a reminder that, for all Harrow’s eclectic story forms and witty twists, her fiction remains firmly grounded in the real terrors and hassles of our own lives.” locusmag.com/review/the-slan…
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See @garykwolfe’s review of ALL THE HIDDEN PLACES by @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social: “... balance of anger and compassion, of figures who defiantly choose to be outsiders, others who are systematically excluded, and the systems that dehumanize both.” locusmag.com/review/all-the-…
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“The first thing to be said about Naomi Kritzer’s chilling OBSTETRIX is that it’s pretty effective as a horror thriller, but the horror she’s writing about is mostly with us already…” @garykwolfe reviews new work from @naomikritzer.bsky.social locusmag.com/review/obstetri…
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See @garykwolfe’s review of IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS by @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social: “touching tale of friendship and loyalty, with a credible and hopeful love story at its center and a set of appealing queer, trans, and neurodivergent characters.” locusmag.com/review/ignore-a…
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“With a varied cast of complex but intriguing characters, GHOST-EYE is as fascinating narratively as it is a bit wobbly in terms of unifying its most important themes.” Read @garykwolfe’s review of Amitav Ghosh locusmag.com/review/ghost-ey…
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See @garykwolfe’s review of BOY, WITH ACCIDENTAL DINOSAUR by @ianmcdonald.bsky.social: “McDonald manages to turn what at first looks like...classic Western tall tales into a surprisingly affecting, and occasionally quite funny, tale of redemption and hope” locusmag.com/review/boy-with…
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See @garykwolfe’s review of THE RECOLLECTIONS by Christopher Priest: “clear, precise, and generally good-humored language, from the stark details of his rather gloomy childhood to his encounters with fandom and his skirmishes with the literary world” locusmag.com/review/the-reco…
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“If, as Vo has suggested in nearly every volume of the Singing Hills saga, we are made of the stories we tell, A LONG AND SPEAKING SILENCE is yet another convincing demonstration of that notion…” @garykwolfe reviews a new novella from @nghivo.bsky.social locusmag.com/review/a-long-a…
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