John Folk-Williams

Jun 30, 2023 | scifimind.com | John Folk-Williams

Essa Hansen’s Ethera Grave may be the conclusion of her Graven trilogy (following Nophek Gloss and Azura Ghost), but it does far more than bring to an exciting and powerful conclusion a complex story. The novel expands its multiverse in dazzling ways and probes numerous questions of moral choice, diversity, transformation, time, the power of found family and the idea of death itself.

Jun 29, 2023 | mediate.com | Daniel Griffith |Peter Adler |John Folk-Williams |Nancy Kramer

Professionals Who Mediate: Who are They and How Do They Differ from Professional Mediators? People from multiple backgrounds, fields, disciplines, and walks of life must utilize mediation skills to address informal, everyday conflicts among the people they lead, work and live with, and serve. Mediation skills are broadly applicable, and individuals can and do informally mediate conflict situations in a broad array of contexts.

Mar 16, 2023 | scifimind.com | John Folk-Williams

Kate Elliott’s Furious Heaven is a big, richly detailed reworking in space of the career of Alexander the Great, though you don’t need to know that background to enjoy this epic space adventure. At more than 700 pages, it’s long but never tedious, and each chapter repays close reading.

Feb 26, 2023 | scifimind.com | John Folk-Williams

Kelly Barnhill’s The Crane Husband is, in many ways a companion piece to her longer work, When Women Were Dragons. In both, the desire of a woman to break free of the normal bounds of life takes literal form, but at great cost to others. In one case, they become dragons – at times on a mass scale.

Feb 14, 2023 | scifimind.com | John Folk-Williams

Apex Book Company will begin a Kickstarter campaign on February 21st to raise funds for a new anthology, Robotic Ambitions. I don’t usually join in campaigns like this, but Apex is an important institution in the SFF world. I’d like to help make this book possible — I have to add that I have no financial incentive whatsoever in doing this. The anthology is edited by Lesley Conner & Jason Sizemore, with cover art by Vincent Lefevre.