Blazing a trail for imaginative, Africa-based writing is Nnedi Okorafor. With more than 15 novels and novellas already published, including the Binti trilogy, the Akata series, and Who Fears Death, soon to be adapted for HBO by George R. R. Martin, Okorafor has also been branching out into the world of comics. Her most recent…
BSG v BSG #4: Good Plot, But No Context
BSG vs BSG #4 Peter David (Writer), Edu Menna (Artist), Mohan (Colourist), Taylor Esposito (Letterer) Dynamite Comics 18 April, 2018 The original Battlestar Galactica has been sucked through a wormhole into a universe where they face… the reboot Battlestar Galactica. Following the OG-Galactica is the OG-Pegasus, bearing an alien called Kali who proclaims to be…
Saga #50 Marks An Important Anniversary
Saga #50 Brian K. Vaughan (Writer), Fiona Staples (Artist), Fonografiks (letterer & designer) Image Comics March 28, 2018 Saga #50 lacks the bizarre fanfare that I was expecting in its monumental fiftieth issue, particularly for a comic that has frequented in endless plot twists, heartbreaking losses, bold sex scenes, and outlandish (quite literally) characters, both…
Delegates and Sci-Fi Civil Unrest
Delegates #1-4 Tina Cesa Ward and Bin Lee (Writers), Sabrina Deigert and Felipe Cunha (Artists), Leigh Walls and Doug Gabark (Colourists) ComiXology February 7, 2018 Delegates is an ongoing series that focuses on issues of what it means to be human. The series, created by Tina Cesa Ward and Bin Lee, focuses on the fictional…
Mermaid Project: Whiteness and Capitalism in a Soft Cyberpunk Murder Mystery
Mermaid Project Volume 1 Leo & Fred Simon & Corine Jamar, Europe Comics, izneo.com IZNEO HAS PROVIDED WWAC WITH A VIP ACCESS PASS. Mermaid Project tracks a young woman trying to prove herself as a detective in the Paris of the near future. She becomes unexpectedly linked to an international, industrial scandal and is sent to America…
Star Wars Adventures: Forces of Destiny – Hera: A Bringer of Hope
Star Wars Adventures: Forces of Destiny #3 – Hera Devin Grayson (Writer). Eva Widermann (Artist), Monica Kubina (Colours), Tom B. Long (Letters) IDW Publishing 17 January, 2018 The IDW Publishing’s Star Wars Forces of Destiny series is going from strength to strength. Following two solid first issues featuring the films’ female characters as protagonists, the…
Jem and the Holograms – Infinite: Colourful Caper through Parallel Worlds
Jem and the Holograms: Infinite Kelly Thompson (Writer), Stacey Lee, Jenn St-Onge (Artists), Jen Hickman (Artist and Letters), Sarah Stern, M. Victoria Robado (Letters and Colours), Shawn Lee (Letters), Brittany Peer (Colours) IDW Publishing 13 February, 2018 Jem and the Holograms and the Misfits are at it again: not singing, but arguing. Can these two…
Teaching Diverse Lit: Cinderella meets New Beijing
We are fully immersed in the era of adaptations. Fiction fans need not wait more than a week to hear that a favorite novel or comic will soon to make its way to the big or small screen. Old television shows and movies are earning reboots left and right. Stories are getting second and third…
Finding the Way Home: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
An Unkindness of Ghosts Rivers Solomon Akashic Books October 3, 2017 During a particularly tumultuous phase of my early undergraduate career, marred by angry confusion at the unfamiliar metamorphosis of my identities, I stumbled upon a class about slavery. Of course, on my predominantly white, liberal-ass college campus, at the dawn of Obama’s second presidency,…
Earth-Based Science Fiction: The Winnowing by Vikki VanSickle
It’s 1989. The Berlin Wall comes down, Game Boy makes it debut, and Marivic Stone has the first set of nightmares that signal she’s going ACEs and needs to go in for the Winnowing. Okay, maybe that last one didn’t happen in our version of 1989. But The Winnowing by Vikki VanSickle takes place in an alternate…
Dreaming of Electric Sheep: Diverse Science Fiction for Fall 2017
A hearty hello to all our fellow readers! 2017 continues its steady march straight to hell, so we’d like to provide some literary escapes from all the chaos. Last time we recommended several upcoming diverse fantasy novels for your reading pleasure, so this time we’ll bring you the best diverse science fiction that the year…
The Book of Joan
The Book of Joan Lidia Yuknavitch HarperCollins April 18, 2017 A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Better, more eloquent people than me have reviewed Lidia Yuknavitch’s latest novel, The Book of Joan. It’s been covered by Publishers Weekly, NPR, and the New York Times. For just about…