David Agranoff, author and host of Dickheads: The Philip K. Dick Podcast has named James Reich’s The Song My Enemies Sing as one of his dozen best books of the decade. Agranoff writes: “I just had this in my 2019 list but I love Reich’s retro Mars world-building and meta look at pulp sci-fi. I think this book has lots of levels that are cat-nip for a sci-fi reader/scholar such as myself. Part of the genius of this novel is Reich doesn’t appear to let his 21st-century existence take away from this experience and tells a story that is like a bubble out of time. This not the real Mars but the one we remember from the pulps. Genius piece of work.”
The selection also includes work by Brian Evenson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Goodfellow, and more. Check it out, here: