Jeremy Brett As a voracious reader, and as someone for whom science fiction and fantasy are part of my daily job as a science fiction librarian, I come across a lot of wonderful work in these genres. I love bringing to the attention of interested readers books and authors that bring me joy, some of which may have slipped below people’s radar, and I do so most months in The SFF Librarian Reviews series for ARB. Let’s explore strange new worlds together! When They Burned The Butterfly. Wen-yi Lee. Tor, October 2025. Butterflies are, of course, traditional symbols of the process of transformation, and the metamorphosis they represent lies at the heart of the new urban fantasy novel When They Burned the Butterfly, by Wen-yi Lee. Set in Singapore in 1972—less than a decade after the island became a nation fully independent from British colonial rule—the novel is rooted in a world fast disappearing under the onrush of modernity, where old gods (many of them brought along with the various…
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