Over the past few decades, video games have moved from fad, to kids’ stuff, to a new pillar of mainstream entertainment, but in some ways we’re still figuring out how they slot into the landscape of our everyday lives. Who is a gamer and who isn’t? If you play games on your phone during your […]
A light week of new releases this second week of April, but that doesn’t mean you can stop adding to your TRB pile: these five sound like can’t-miss selections.
Speculative fiction has a storied and fantastic history, and while every book is in conversation with genre conventions to some extent, some speak a hell of a lot more loudly than others. These books explicitly comment on the conventions, memes, and tropes of SF/F, either critiquing or blatantly referencing their predecessors. Here are eight unapologetically meta speculative novels.
The act of video gaming in and of itself is a wonderful form of entertainment, allowing players to leave behind the real world and exist in a digital one for a short time. As virtual reality and augmented reality gaming are about to hit the world big-time, it’s worth taking a look at how authors […]