A Gentle Trauma Plot: Outside the Gates
“Gloss gives space and warmth to characters who live lives curled around a shame they can’t look at directly.”
Molly Receives C.E.S. Wood Award from Literary Arts!
“presented to an Oregon author in recognition of an enduring, substantial literary career”
The Well-Read Bear: The Dazzle of Day
“a heart, a warmth, a depth that is often missing in [traditional hard science fiction]”
Coode Street Podcast: 10 Minutes With Molly Gloss
A chat with Gary Wolfe about recent books read and listened to, taking solace in novels with pastoral settings, the eerie feeling of reading Sarah Pinsker's A Song for a New Day, recent reprints by Saga Press… & more…
Unforeseen is a World Fantasy finalist!
World Fantasy Virtual Convention, October 29 - November 1, 2020
Ian Mond reviews Outside the Gates in Locus
“…free of the grimdark tendencies of contemporary fantasy…”
“Get Lit…” on writing across the borders of genre
“The Iconic Western and Sci-Fi Heroes Who Inspire My Writing”
State of Wonder on OPB
Interview with April Baer at Wallowa Lake Lodge
Hybrid Essay/Interview: Molly Gloss
By Nicole Barney, writing in CRAFT Literary
“The best beginnings encapsulate the story, within a sentence, distilling it to its purest truth.”
Quiet Wonder: The Speculative Fiction of Molly Gloss
By Carl Abbott, writing in Strange Horizons.
“Strangeness seeps into Gloss’s speculative fiction without fanfare or special effects.”
F&SF Interview: Molly Gloss on “The Everlasting Humming of the Earth”
“I’ve always just written the stories that I wanted to read.”
Elvis, Earthquakes and Space Rangers!
Author interview in the July issue of Portland Monthly Magazine.
Barnes & Noble: The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of July 2019
UNFORESEEN makes the list!
“stories that combine a literary sensibility with SFF tropes and a deep understanding of what makes us human.”
I Must Be Writing for Both of Us: Wild Life by Molly Gloss
A wonderful, insightful review by Brit Mandelo in Tor.com
“Wild Life is itself a romantic adventure, but it’s simultaneously about romantic adventure books—an author writing an author writing.”
The American Scholar: Six Books for Earth Day
Wild Life as “nature writing”—yes! By Becca Cudmore
“Gloss’s novel reminds us of the fine line that exists between science fiction and nature writing—as well as wilderness and civilization—and how easily that distinction gets blurred.”
A Second Life for a First-Rate Science Fiction Novel
Quakers in Space! by Ceridwen Christensen
“The Dazzle of Day is a beautiful, quiet, thinking novel, filled with introspection and a vibrant sense of place.”
“The Everlasting Humming of the Earth”
The July/August edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction is now on sale!
Paper and electronic copies here!