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From living above her parents’ hardware store in Brooklyn to living a mile down a gravel road in semi-rural Texas with her husband, sons, and the local wildlife, Eva Silverfine has explored a variety of urban to rural landscapes. On that journey, she earned two degrees in the environmental sciences, worked in a research lab, and eventually retooled as a copyeditor. She freelances for several academic presses and writes personal narrative and fiction in the in-between spaces.

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	How to Bury Your Dog 4.40 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A Foray into Speculative Fiction

I have been on a self-assigned reading program of speculative fiction written by women and focusing on social structures and gender. In part, this is research for my work-in-progress (that is, I am identifying comparative books as well as seeing how other authors have approached the topic and the science). After sharing a social media… Continue reading A Foray into Speculative Fiction → Read more of this blog post »

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Eva Silverfine entered a giveaway To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Eva Silverfine rated a book it was amazing The Marriage Debt by Christina Consolino (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
In The Marriage Debt, Consolino delves into unconventional territory—how perimenopause is affecting a woman’s marriage and sex life. Nika is a character many women might identify with—overextended between work, children, spouse, parent, and household ...more
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Eva Silverfine rated a book it was amazing Navigating Rocky Terrain: Caves, Karsts, and the Soul of Unseen Spaces by Laurie Roath Frazier	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The author and I share a number of commonalities—we are both biologists and writers, and we both have come to settle in the Texas Hill Country. Each of us has learned about the biology of this fragile terrain of hills and rivers underlain by karst, s ...more
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Eva Silverfine rated a book really liked it Starman After Midnight: A Novel-in-Stories by Scott Semegran (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Seff, the primary narrator of this “novel-in-stories” is an author who is somewhat stuck regarding his works in progress. His neighbor and drinking buddy, Big Dave, is a MAGA-hat-wearing plumber who doesn’t like to read. Together they follow their Au ...more
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Eva Silverfine rated a book really liked it Herland (The Herland Trilogy, #2) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Herland was first serialized in Gilman’s monthly magazine, The Forerunner, in 1915; it was published in book form in 1979. Three young men go on an expedition to an unnamed place that hints of South America. They hear of a land inhabited solely by wo ...more
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Eva Silverfine rated a book it was amazing The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I read this novel many years ago, and it always remained with me. Reading it again, I find it just as rich and substantial. LeGuin creates a world with complex cultures and an alternative gender/reproductive system; she also gives us political intrig ...more
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Eva Silverfine rated a book really liked it The Female Man by Joanna Russ	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This novel is not a light read. I found it often disorienting as the first person was switched without warning. There are four main characters and another minor one who features somewhat prominently. Jeannine is a conventional woman from an alternati ...more
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Eva Silverfine rated a book really liked it I, Robot (Robot, #0.1) by Isaac Asimov	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Given I’ve been reading more speculative fiction of late, I decided to follow an online book club reading classic scifi. The book is interesting conceptually and addressed, ahead of its time (1940s), some potential conundrums of using artificial inte ...more
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Eva Silverfine rated a book liked it Angel Island by Inez Haynes Gillmore	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Published in 1914, “Angel Island” might better be classified as fantasy than as science fiction. Five men survive a shipwreck on a rather benign island. They begin to be visited by five women with large wings and “residual” feet. The men first meet t ...more
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“Seemingly fixed, the walls of a house are really elastic, accommodating all sorts of things inside.”
― Eva Silverfine, Elastic Walls: From Brooklyn to Texas and Points in Between

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“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
― Oscar Wilde

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