Speculative Fiction
Volume 41, Number 1
November-December 2019
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Frederick Luis Aldama’s Introduction to Focus: Speculative Fiction
Matthew David Goodwin reviews Lilliam Rivera’s Dealing in Dreams
Sean Guynes reviews Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina’s The Things She’s Seen
Katlin Marisol Sweeney reviews Sabrina Vourvoulias’s Ink
Jessica Rutherford reviews Zoraida Córdova’s Bruja Born
Rolando Rubalcava reviews Ernest Hogan’s Smoking Mirror Blues: Or, The Return of Tezcatlipoca
Jacinta Yanders reviews Victor LaValle’s The Changeling
Patrick Holt reviews Karen Lord’s Unraveling
Alberto Ledesma reviews Daniel José Older’s The Book of Lost Saints
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
