Berkeley Fiction Review

A Writer’s World – The good, the great, and the inbetween

I’m learning that maybe there’s somewhere in between being good and being great— the space that…
Borderline

By the year 2020, years of therapy had helped me accept a blistering status quo: the…
Pain as Power: Review of Witch King by Martha Wells

Martha Wells’s bestselling Murderbot series has been lauded for its aromantic and asexual representation, but coming…
The Subtle Art of Silliness: How Children’s Media Can Heal our Inner Child

Do you ever wonder why there seems to be a timeless essence to the stories little…
Classic Fantasy Tropes Upside Down: What Differentiates Joe Abercrombie’s The First Law from The Lord of the Rings

These tropes have been employed throughout literature in so many ways that one wonders: how is…
Los Globos

I had always thought that words can do anything. Explain and convey every feeling. If there…
How do we short-circuit control? A Review of Nonbinary by Genesis P-Orridge

While Genesis lived a life that may sometimes seem almost alien, s/he was still very much…
On the Cult of Romance: A Review Of “Cult Classic” by Megha Ganapathy

Below the fantastical, postmodern surface of algorithms, experiments, and an omniscient entity, however, there lies the…
The Idiot and the State of Contemporary Fiction

The Idiot initially reads somewhat as a hybrid between fiction and memoir—not necessarily because of how…
Words vs. Numbers: A Review of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake

A book Margaret Atwood would deem speculative fiction, Oryx and Crake explores the devaluation of the…