Fiction & Nonfiction


Fiction & Essays

2021 "Year-In-Review" in Locus

Essay: "What You Might Have Missed" in Uncanny Magazine, issue 43, Nov/Dec 2021

Falling Sun in Perihelion (data lost)

Edyn the Monk in Spark Anthology

Roasted with White Truffle in Postscripts to Darkness

Carved in Stone in Roar and Thunder (defunct)

The Bad Book in Independent Ink (defunct)

Maps in Lovecraft ezine

Essay: "Acceptance" in Lightspeed's QDSF

Custody Battle in Plasma Frequency (defunct)

Hollow Girl in Scigentasy (defunct)

Nettles in The Future Fire

Rabble in SQ Mag

Catskin in Big Pulp

On Vacation in Chimeraworld6


Film Reviews (with Josh Pearce)

For Locus Online

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Jung_E & book The Black Guy Dies First 
M3GAN
Neptune Frost & slash/back
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever & Black Adam
Samaritan
Alienoid
Prey
Nope
Thor: Love and Thunder
The Black Phone
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Batman
Spider-Man: No Way Home
The Matrix Resurrections
Antlers
Eternals
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
The Suicide Squad
The Green Knight
Black Widow & The Tomorrow War
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
Raya and the Last Dragon
Godzilla vs. Kong
Space Sweepers
Soul
Wonder Woman 1984
Parallel
Tenet
LX 2048 with bonus film The Speed of Time
The New Mutants
Sputnik
Project Power

(Series) Lovecraft Country

Palm Springs
The Old Guard

(Series) The Dead Lands & Tales from the Loop

(Series) Upload & Motherland: Fort Salem 

Onward
Bloodshot
The Invisible Man
Birds of Prey
Color Out of Space
Underwater
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Terminator: Dark Fate
Joker
It Chapter Two
Brightburn
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Men in Black: International
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Avengers: Endgame
Shazam!
Us
Captain Marvel
The Wandering Earth
Bumblebee
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Bird Box
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Venom
The Predator
The Meg
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Incredibles 2
Deadpool 2
Avengers: Infinity War
A Quiet Place
Black Panther


Interviews

For Locus

--2023--

Charlie Jane Anders (Apr)
Nisi Shawl (Mar)
Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Feb)
Annalee Newitz (Jan)

--2022--

Julie E. Czerneda (Dec)
Xiran Jay Zhao (Nov)
Sarah Gailey (Oct)
Zoraida Córdova (Sep)
L. Penelope (Aug)
V. Castro (June)
Dhonielle Clayton (May)
Maurice Broaddus (Mar)
Eugen Bacon (Jan)

---2021---
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Dec)
TJ Klune (Aug)
Cassandra Khaw (July)
A.C. Wise (June)
Nnedi Okorafor (May)
Isabel Yap (Apr)
Brandon Sanderson (Feb)
Andrea Hairston (Jan)

---2020---
Sheree Renée Thomas(Dec)
Victor LaValle (Nov)
Tochi Onyebuchi (Aug)
Steven Erikson (Jul)
Tobias S. Buckell (Jun)
C.L. Polk (May)
Tamsyn Muir, Kate Heartfield (Apr)
Gareth L. Powell (Mar)
Joe Abercrombie, Arkady Martine (Jan)

---2019---
Rivers Solomon (Dec)
Robert R. McCammon (Nov)
Phenderson Djèlí Clark (Oct)
Cadwell Turnbull (Sep)
Lesley Nneka Arimah (Aug)
R.F. Kuang (Jul)
Kaaron Warren (Jun)
S.A. Chakraborty (Mar)

---2018---
N.K. Jemisin, Kate Elliott (Oct)
Kelly Robson, Rebecca Roanhorse (Sep)
Nick Harkaway (May)
Tananarive Due (Apr)
JY Neon Yang (Jan)

---2017---
Seanan McGuire (Dec)
Aliette De Bodard (Nov)
John Scalzi (Aug)

(Note: Locus does not run bylines for interviews)


Interviews

For Clarkesworld

--2022--

Anya Ow & Ashley Mackenzie (Aug)
Eileen Gunn & Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Jul)
Samit Basu & Sam J. Miller (Jun)
Alex Shvartsman and Tarryn Thomas & Dennard Dayle (May)
Rachel Cordasco (Apr)
John Scalzi & Regina Kanyu Wang and Yu Chen (Mar)
Max Gladstone & Zoraida Córdova (Feb)
James S.A. Corey, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Jan)


---2021---
Diana M. Pho, Tarun K. Saint (Dec)
Charlie Jane Anders, Xueting Christine Ni (Nov)
Tobias S. Buckell, Cadwell Turnbull (Oct)
Cat Rambo, Nina Allan (Sep)
S. Qiouyi Lu, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Aug)
Sheree Renée Thomas, Tommy Arnold (Jul)
Cassandra Khaw, Alyssa Winans (Jun)
Kelly Robson, Octavia Cade (May)
Harry Turtledove (Apr)
Elly Bangs, Becky Chambers (Mar)
Karen Osborne, S.B. Divya (Feb)
Connie Willis, E. Lily Yu (Jan)

---2020---
Stina Leicht, Tim Pratt (Dec)
John Fleskes, R.F. Kuang (Nov)
Kim Stanley Robinson, Rebecca Roanhorse (Oct)
Sheila Williams, Scott H. Andrews (Sep)
Michael Swanwick, Lauren Beukes (Aug)
Madeline Ashby, Kate Elliot (Jul)
John P. Murphy (Jun)
Lois McMaster Bujold, Tamsyn Muir (May)
Martha Wells, Lavie Tidhar (Apr)
Alastair Reynolds, Kameron Hurley (Mar)
Tochi Onyebuchi, Ken Liu (Feb)
Walter Jon Williams, Victo Ngai (Jan)

---2019---
Peter Watts, Juliette Wade (Dec)
Susan Palwick, Jacob Weisman (Nov)
Nicky Drayden, Maurizio Manzieri (Oct)
Derek Künsken, L.X. Beckett (Sep)


Reviews

For the CSZ

The Rampant, Julie Day (Vol 10 #1)

People Change, Gwynne Garfinkle (Vol 9 #1)

The Breath of the Sun, Isaac Fellman (Vol 8 #4) 

The Invisible Valley, Su Wei (Vol 8 #3)

Wonderblood, Julia Whicker (Vol 8 #2)

The Wayward Children series, Seanan McGuire (Vol 8 #1)

Mormama, Kit Reed (Vol 7 #3)

Feral, James DeMonaco & B.K. Evenson (Vol 7 #2)


Reviews

For Locus

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One, Paula Guran (Jan 2021)

Deathless Divide, Justina Ireland (Jun 2020)

War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi (Feb 2020)

Best New Horror #29, Stephen Jones (Nov 2019)

Fright Into Flight, ed by Amber Fallon (Dec 2018)

Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Aug 2018)

Sins of Empire, Brian McClellan (Jul 2017)

Scythe, Neal Shusterman (Mar 2017)


Reviews

For Lightspeed

--2022--

(Dec) Meteotopia, by Chattopadhyay, Rüsche, & Verso

(Nov) Tomorrow’s Parties, by Jonathan Strahan

(Oct) Eternally Yours, by Patrice Caldwell

(Sep) Africa Risen, by Thomas, Ekpeki, & Knight

(Aug) Our Shadows Have Claws, by Méndez & Ortiz

(Jul) El Porvenir, ¡Ya!, by Duncan, Irizary, & Rendón

(Jun) Dreams for a Broken World, Julie Day & Ellen Meeropol

(May) Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa, Rachel Zadok, Karina Szczurek, Jason Mykl Snyman

(Apr) Unlimited Futures, Rafeif Ismail & Ellen van Neerven

(Mar) Screams From the Dark, Ellen Datlow

(Feb) Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu

(Jan) Trouble the Waters, Sheree Renée Thomas, Pan Morigan, Troy L. Wiggins






Reviews

For Lightspeed
---2021---

(Dec) Reclaim the Stars, Zoraida Córdova

(Nov) Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, dave ring

(Oct) The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

(Sep) No Gods, No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull

(Aug) We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, Charles Payseur & C.L. Clark

(Jul) Far Out: Recent Queer SF&F, Paula Guran

(Jun) Sword, Stone, Table: Old Legends, New Voices, Swapna Krishna & Jenn Northington

(May) Black Sci-Fi Short Stories, Tia Ross/Flame Tree Press

(Apr) Spider King, Justin C. Key

(Mar) Broken Fevers, Tenea D. Johnson

(Feb) Latinx Screams, V. Castro & Cynthia Pelayo

(Jan) Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap

---2020---

(Dec)
A Universe of Wishes, Dhonielle Clayton
Glitter + Ashes, dave ring
Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse

(Sep)
Burning Roses, S.L. Huang
Evil in Technicolor, Joe M. McDermott
Entanglements, Sheila Williams

(Jun)
Big Girl, Meg Elison
Final Cuts, Ellen Datlow
Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark

(Mar)
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin
A Phoenix First Must Burn, Patrice Caldwell
Made to Order, Jonathan Strahan







Reviews

For Lightspeed
---2019---

(Dec)
Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, Ken Liu
The New Voices of Science Fiction, Hannu Rajaniemi & Jacob Weisman

(Sep)
Gamechanger, L.X. Beckett
Sisters of the Vast Black, by Lina Rather
The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher

(Jun)
Zero Bomb, M.T. Hill
Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water, Vylar Kaftan
Destroy All Monsters, Sam J. Miller

(Mar)
A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
Ragged Alice, Gareth L. Powell
New Suns, Nisi Shawl

---2018---

(Dec)
The Wren Hunt, Mary Watson
Alice Payne Arrives, Kate Heartfield
A Cathedral of Myth and Bone, Kat Howard

(Sep)
Zero Sum Game, S.L. Huang
The Black God's Drums, P. Djèlí Clark
Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse

(Jun)
The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang
Unbury Carol, Josh Malerman
Night Beast, Ruth Joffre

(Mar)
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson
Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, Vandana Singh

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