Tag: Leland Cheuk

  • “Cheers to the Weirdos!”: Jesi Bender Presents a Heavy Feather Review Favorites List for 2022

    “Cheers to the Weirdos!”: Jesi Bender Presents a Heavy Feather Review Favorites List for 2022

    I’m a sucker for a year-end list. I love seeing what people enjoyed, adding to my TBR, and discovering new titles and authors. However, I also suffer from a very particular, what-some-have-deemed-“weird” taste. Given this affliction, I wanted to create a list of suggestions from authors who share my penchant for more experimental or innovative…

  • A Story from The Future: Leland Cheuk’s “Frontliners”

    A Story from The Future: Leland Cheuk’s “Frontliners”

    Frontliners I shuddered after Rebecca said she’d ordered takeout and toilet paper again. I was getting nowhere with my intramarital campaign for self-sufficiency during the global pandemics. No android dependency! I get why the Feds and L—, Inc. teamed up to deploy legions of androids to do deliveries and frontline tasks so we could all…

  • Leland Cheuk: “My SMS,” short fiction from The Future

    Leland Cheuk: “My SMS,” short fiction from The Future

    My SMS I sent one of my SMSs (Social Media Selves) to my friend’s reading way out in Longway Meadow. I didn’t want to go personally (too far, not in the mood), and I figured enough of my friend’s friends (or their SMSs) would be in attendance that I wouldn’t be missed. The holographic selves…

  • Nothing but the Dead and Dying, stories by Ryan W. Bradley, reviewed by Leland Cheuk

    Nothing but the Dead and Dying, stories by Ryan W. Bradley, reviewed by Leland Cheuk

    The title of Ryan W. Bradley’s eighth book, Nothing but the Dead and Dying, pulls no punches. Set in Alaska, these two-dozen stories are about a dead and dying part of the world, thanks to climate change, and the dead and dying white working class men that have become a media talking point in this…

  • The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong, a novel by Leland Cheuk, reviewed by Ben Duax

    The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong, a novel by Leland Cheuk, reviewed by Ben Duax

    The Asian American experience is a history of erasure. Generations of Asians in America have been forced to deal with attempts to define them as uniquely other, from the Angell treaty of 1880, which limited ships arriving in America to no more than fifteen Chinese, to the internment of Japanese Americans during the second world war.…

  • Juventud, a novel by Vanessa Blakeslee, reviewed by Leland Cheuk

    Juventud, a novel by Vanessa Blakeslee, reviewed by Leland Cheuk

    Juventud is Spanish for “youth,” which is what is at stake for Mercedes Martinez, the fifteen-year-old in Vanessa Blakelee’s earnest and evocative first novel. Juventud is set mostly on a hacienda in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, where camping near the gates are desplazados (rural, indigenous people forced to abandon their homes due to the decades-long…