Alif the Unseen G. Willow Wilson Grove Press Publication Date: June 19, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-8021-2020-5 I love fantasy literature awards: the Nebulas, the Hugos, the World Fantasy Awards. Their nominations are stellar recommendations for fantastic novels that might have otherwise flown under my radar. When such a list of nominees […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.