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Gary K. Wolfe

Chicago
As seen in: Chicago Tribune, Locus Magazine, Salon, South Florida Sun Sentinel, MPR News (Saint Paul, MN), Los Angeles Review of Books, Reactor, Yakima Herald-Republic
Professor emeritus at Roosevelt University; science fiction and fantasy critic and reviewer for Locus Magazine & Chicago Tribune.
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Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer: Review by Gary K. Wolfe

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By Gary K. Wolfe
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Obstetrix, Naomi Kritzer (Tordotcom 978-1250423375, $25.00, 208pp, hc) June 2026. Probably the first thing to be said about Naomi Kritzer’s chilling Obstetrix is that it’s pretty effective as a horror thriller, but the horror she’s writing about is mostly with us already – toxic groupthink, malignant patriarchy, oppressive religiosity, and the legislative appropriation of women’s bodies.
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The Three Coffin Problem by Lavie Tidhar: Review by Gary K. Wolfe

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By Gary K. Wolfe
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The Three Coffin Problem, Lavie Tidhar (JABberwocky Literary Agency 978-162567-798-3, $18.99, 275pp, tp) June 2026. Since 2020, the always-surprising Lavie Tidhar has been publishing a delightful series of short mystery stories on Reactor about a vampire detective named Judge Dee as he made his way through medieval Europe with his hapless human assistant Jonathan.
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Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann: Review by Gary K. Wolfe

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By Gary K. Wolfe
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Ignore All Previous Instructions, Ada Hoffmann (Tachyon 978-1-61696-456-6, $18.95, 336pp, tp) May 2026. Long before “dystopia” became a ubiquitous catch all for any drizzly future, the English novelist Kingsley Amis coined the term “comic inferno” for a future based on satirically extrapolating particular aspects of current society.
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