Tides from the New Worlds: In Orbite Medievali

Tides from the New Worlds: In Orbite Medievali by Tobias Buckell Installment 9 In Orbite Medievali is based on the idea that the Earth is not, in fact, round. What would have happened to the voyage of Christopher Columbus if the world were flat? This is an idea I haven’t read before, and it really [...]

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Tides from the New Worlds: Her

Tides from the New Worlds: Her by Tobias Buckell Installment 8 Her is a surreal work, combining science fiction and magical realism in a way that is incredibly unsettling and mind-bending. We follow a high ranking bureaucrat as he handles the ins and outs of working and living on a giant floating woman in space. [...]

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Tides from the New Worlds: The Shackles of Freedom

Tides from the New Worlds: The Shackles of Freedom by Tobias Buckell with Mike Resnick Installment 7 In the theme that seems to be emerging, I see Buckell questioning preconceptions and trying to stretch the stories covered in speculative fiction. The Shackles of Freedom is one such story. A modern doctor, (and by modern we’re [...]

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Tides from the New Worlds: Shoah Sry

Tides from the New Worlds: Shoah Sry by Tobias Buckell with Ilsa J. Bick Installment 6 In this collaboration with Ilsa J. Bick, Buckell touches on very traditional themes in Feminist Science Fiction, but in an interesting way. We are introduced to a future that is made up entirely of women, with men mysteriously going [...]

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Tides from the New Worlds: Aerophilia

Tides from the New Worlds: Aerophilia by Tobias Buckell Installment 5 Buckell professes his love for airships at the beginning of this story, a fitting admission when you take in the title. I have to admit a secret love for the word dirigible here, too, which Buckell uses almost immediately in the story. I think [...]

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