New ebook and new issues
Added 2022-09-30 04:13:44 +0000 UTCHere's the ebook for August, which includes the Southeast Asian Special Issue. As always, let us know if you have trouble accessing it.
This week we published the Extractivism in SFF special issue (the last piece will go live tomorrow, and the September ebooks will go out after that). It's a big issue -- 8 months in the making and full of poems, non-fiction, and reviews about waste, scarcity, economies of labor, exploitation, and sacrifice in SFF.
Finally, we have some terrible news: this month Maureen Kincaid Speller, our head of Reviews, passed away. We grieve her and the loss of her insight, warmth, and care.
We'll leave you with an excerpt from Reviews Editors Aishwarya Subramanian and Dan Hartland's tribute to Maureen:
Maureen Kincaid Speller was capable of producing among the best criticism SFF has to offer. Now she has left us, our understandings of the genre will be poorer and less complete. We will know our favourite texts less well, and we will struggle sometimes to express a reading she would have worked into prose of wit, clarity, and pith. We will miss her because, as a critic, she helped us be better readers; because, as an editor, she made us better writers; and because, as herself, she was fearless in achieving these ends. But most of all, we will miss her because she was our friend—was the friend of all readers, and all authors, and all books. She showed us this every time she attended to a text and asked not just why she liked it, but why she—or why we—might not. Friends make us better, and they often do so via the unvarnished truth.
