The Mutant’s Apprentice is an essay from Bogi Takács, a Hungarian Jewish agender trans author who writes SFF, poetry, and commentary. This essay first appeared in the fourth volume of our Quarterly Almanac. The Mutant’s Apprentice While there are…
Tropes
On this – last! – edition of Trope Anatomy 101, Carlie St. George examines one of our favourite tropes: found families. Trope Anatomy 101 is a monthly column in which familiar tropes, particularly in speculative fiction and pop culture,…
On this special Halloween edition of Trope Anatomy 101, Carlie St. George examines horror movies and the girls in horror movies who are too often killed off. Trope Anatomy 101 is a monthly column in which familiar tropes, particularly…
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! Today it’s Thea’s turn with a list inspired by her recent devouring of Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. It’s a heist novel and an assembling the team novel, aka two…