LeeAnn Perry

Sep 28, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Sneha Pathak |LeeAnn Perry |Jennifer Mace |Marisca Pichette

Rohan Monteiro’s Shadows Rising is a mythological fantasy featuring a yaksha, a celestial being found in Hindu mythology, as its central character. Akran, who was once a powerful yaksha warrior with friends in high places, has been living in Mumbai for a long time when the book opens. He keeps away from the prying eyes of the powerful celestials who banished him thousands of years ago for a crime he has no memory of committing.

Sep 27, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Catherine Leroux |Duncan Lawie |LeeAnn Perry |Jennifer Mace

A stranger comes to town, and everything changes, including the stranger. It’s an old story. But before that change can happen, we need to know what is. We need to grasp the sense that the characters in this novel don’t feel they can change—or, at the least, that they have insufficient agency in their own lives. This sense of stuckness makes the first section of The Future a frustrating read.

Sep 25, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Tristan Beiter |LeeAnn Perry |Jennifer Mace |Marisca Pichette

Maressa Voss’s first novel, When Shadows Grow Tall, charts the intellectual sea changes of the Renaissance and Enlightenment and the origins of the security state. It ties together the questions of what might be asked of knowledge and what people are willing to endure for the impression of safety. These questions also feel salient and valuable in the modern world, and the novel asks them with deftness and style—even if it does not manage to follow through to possible answers.