Chaos – Reads A Lot

The Chaos of Doomed Love in “Your Driver is Waiting” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsFebruary 28, 2023 by Malavika Praseed

[ad_1] Comparing a brand-new novel against an established piece of media is often tempting, but can be far from accurate without casting a broader lens. Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns has been described endlessly as a gender-bent Taxi Driver. And while there are similarities between the debut novel and the Robert DeNiro movie, … Read more

Chaos, Possibility, and Mangareme Fluffies in “The Unraveling” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsMay 26, 2021 by Jake Casella Brookins

[ad_1] Science fiction has a longstanding interest — a sub-genre, even — in using technology and far-future settings to think about gender. Classic feminist SF from the 1970s on, like Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, imagined worlds with gender roles reversed, complicated, or erased; almost all far-future, post-scarcity works, like Iain … Read more