Paul Goat Allen has been reviewing science fiction, fantasy and genre fiction in general for almost two decades and has written more than 6,000 reviews for companies like The Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, and Barnes & Noble. He is also a moderator for BarnesandNoble.com’s Paranormal/Urban Fantasy and Fantasy/Science Fiction online book forums as well as a weekly contributor to BN.com’s Explorations and Unabashedly Bookish blogs.
I can say with complete sincerity that I am not a group of human individuals working to produce my annual output. I cannot comment on the possibility of my actually being an alien hive-intelligence here to conquer your world.
So why has Jemisin’s ascension to the fantasy fiction stratosphere been so meteoric? It’s simple—she is a master storyteller.
