Natalie Zutter
Writer at Freelance
writer of SFF plays + podcasts + prose, contributor @reactormag @denofgeekus @nprbooks @lithub @PasteMagazine | she/her | IG/bsky: zutsuit
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2 weeks ago |
lithub.com | Natalie Zutter
We’ve finally made it into spring, but May is still very much a transitional month: wrapping up school years and/or fiscal years for some, and easing into our summer plans. Let this month’s TBR sprout like the greenery you might have noticed popping up overnight: extraterrestrial sentient plants from Mira Grant, Guy Gavriel Kay’s medieval tavern poet meeting a quasi-Joan of Arc, Lincoln Michel’s meta commentary on both the Brooklyn SF scene and the Golden Age of SF.
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3 weeks ago |
reactormag.com | Natalie Zutter
My Roman Empire is the Empire Without End duology. 2022’s The Stars Undying radically reimagined Egyptian queen Cleopatra’s astronomical rise to power through a space opera setting with clear character and planetary analogs alongside spectacular worldbuilding: namely, a quicksilver pearl within which is embedded the AI ghost of a long-dead conqueror to advise his descendants.
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4 weeks ago |
reactormag.com | Natalie Zutter
Although Black Mirror’s latest season was narratively uneven, thematically it’s all about digital doubles—a trend continuing from season 6 but reaching back for the past decade of the series’ run. Four of the six new episodes focus on some sort of virtual consciousness, with the shared message of don’t discount these digital beings.
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1 month ago |
reactormag.com | Natalie Zutter
In some ways, the finale to this uneven season of Yellowjackets doesn’t necessarily tell us anything new, instead confirming the identities of the two most arresting figures from the pilot. But it establishes new and fascinating motivations behind these personas, and closes on a downright thrilling note in the Wilderness even when we already know how that timeline’s story ends.
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1 month ago |
reactormag.com | Natalie Zutter
Eight years ago, Hulu delivered The Handmaid’s Tale to a post-election TV audience who sorely needed this furious adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, with its iconic visuals, bitchy needle drops, and wrenching narrative expansions beyond the source material. We got to watch a lowly Handmaid become so much more. We gained (some) sympathy for Wives and cheered for Mayday.
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Valentine’s Day is for the lovers, the teammates, and the cannibals. Welcome to the two-episode premiere of Yellowjackets season three! @nataliezutter checks in on the girls: https://t.co/8G9m53LE9i
