In the future world of Sofia Samatar’s “The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain,” a boy with no name works on a chain gang in the dark and lower decks—known as the Hold—of a massive spaceship. He was ...
Novelist Samatar (The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain) presents a meandering collection of vague musings about writing, publishing, and life. The strongest entries critique the “tyranny of ...