Find Connections in the Emptiness of The Space Between the Stars
I’ve spent a lot of time on the rocky north shores of Lake Superior searching for agates, seaglass, tumbled aluminum,…
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9 Novels About Growing up in the Zombie Apocalypse
I have always been intrigued with characters matriculating in the midst of an apocalypse. They often grow up with very different…
5 Exclamatory Reasons to Read the Memoirs of Lady Trent
I have a number of friends who refuse to begin reading a series until it’s completed. Though I don’t share their…
All the Birds in the Sky Is the Hopeful Apocalyptic Novel We Need Right Now
Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SFF literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula…
Star’s End: An Inner Space Opera
Cassandra Rose Clarke’s novels to date favor a sense of Gothic claustrophobia. The Mad Scientist’s Daughter details a fraught, largely…
New York 2140 Offers a Fascinating Tour of a Drowned Manhattan
In his 2015 novel Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson brackets events taking place largely on a generation ship with two long sequences on…
The Obelisk Gate Is an Impossibly Good Sequel
Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SFF literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula…
Divine Beings Are Down and Out in NYC in Winter of the Gods
No one ever said dating the Goddess of the Hunt was going to be easy. Even in her diminished state,…
Pride and Prejudice and Dragons in Heartstone
It is a truth universally acknowledged that adding dragons to Pride and Prejudice is the best idea I’ve heard in…
Throwback Thursday: The Mad Scientist’s Daughter Is Romantic Science Fiction with a Capital R
I can admit it: I first read The Mad Scientist’s Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke almost solely because of the…
8 Books to Read Once You’re Caught Up with HBO’s Westworld
Six episodes into HBO’s buzzy new science fiction series Westworld, viewers have spun roughly one jillion fan theories about how everything fits together.…
After Atlas Is Painfully Good Science Fiction
Emma Newman’s Planetfall is a devastating novel, set among a colony of pilgrims who left Earth to find God on another planet. Set 20 years…
Sheri S. Tepper Leaves a Legacy of Stunning Science Fiction & Fantasy
Sheri S. Tepper died on Saturday, October 22, 2016 at the age of 87. Like many women of her generation,…
Cloudbound Uncovers the Secrets That Support a Towering Fantasy World
In Cloudbound, Fran Wilde builds on all of the soaring potential of Updraft, her Andre Norton Award-winning debut. This is the…
Death’s End Concludes a Hard Sci-Fi Magnus Opus of Unparalleled Scope
Writing about books tends to superlatives. You’ve read them countless times; the books we love are “breathtaking,” “brilliant,” a “tour…