Russell Letson Russell Letson i(19294571 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Locus Looks at Books : Russell Letson Russell Letson , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Locus , July vol. 93 no. 1 2024; (p. 17)
— Review of Morphotrophic Greg Egan , 2024 single work novel
1 Locus Looks a Books : Divers Hands Russell Letson , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Locus , March vol. 90 no. 3 2023; (p. 22)
— Review of Sleep and the Soul Greg Egan , 2023 selected work short story Greg Egan’s Sleep and the Soul collects his very newest short-form work: nine stories originally published between 2019 and 2022, plus one that is, as of this writing, not even officially out yet. This is the seventh collection of Egan’s short work I have reviewed over nearly three decades, and I notice (again) how he demonstrates one of the fundamental generating mechanisms of science fiction: what Samuel Delany (and then Joanna Russ) called ‘‘subjunctivity,’’ the posing and elaborating of the conjectural what-ifs that generate enabling devices and story possibilities – the raw materials of ‘‘worldbuilding.’'(Introduction)
1 Locus Looks at Books : Divers Hands Russell Letson , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Locus , April vol. 80 no. 4 2018; (p. 22)
— Review of Phoresis Greg Egan , 2018 single work novel 'Greg Egan’s Phoresis is, at around 40,000 words, a long novella and close to the same length as many of the massmarket, full-length paperback novels I grew up on. Into that relatively small space Egan has packed the story of several multiple-generation, low-tech engineering projects that range from geoengineering to interplanetary exploration and colonization, while also creating an exotic planetary system and non-human characters who, despite their physiological strangeness, clearly model psychological and intellectual traits to which we might well aspire.' (Introduction)
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