A Genderflipped Holmes and Watson Ride Again in The Hound of Justice
Holmes and Watson reimaginings are practically their own subgenre these days. Arthur Conan Doyle’s infamous detective and his trusty doctor…
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All Hail the Gorydamn Epic Intimacy of Pierce Brown’s Dark Age
No one does sci-fi literary spectacle quite like Pierce Brown. In the universe of his Red Rising series, populations are…
Mayan Mythology Meets Jazz Age Odyssey in Gods of Jade and Shadow
Sometimes one quote can speak to the feel of an entire novel. Such a line appears just over a quarter…
Discover the Layers of Language in The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
As the saying goes, “there’s nothing new under the sun,” and that goes double for storytelling. Even the most original…
A Curious Case of Canonical Fanfiction: Baoshu’s The Redemption of Time
The story of how Baoshu’s The Redemption of Time came to exist will ring true to anyone who has even fallen in…
Discover J. Michael Straczynski’s Origin Story in the Bold Memoir Becoming Superman
The celebrity memoir is among the most unpredictable of sub-genres, their existence predicated less on the quality of story to…
This Is How You Lose the Time War Is a Time Travel Romance with Teeth
Universes collide, literally, in This is How You Lose the Time War , a layered, emotionally complex time travel-cum-romance from award-winning co-authors Amal…
Gladiator Meets The Count of Monte Cristo in the African-Inspired Fantasy Epic The Rage of Dragons
The Rage of Dragons, the debut epic from self-publishing success story Evan Winter, distinguishes itself by its setting, a fantasy…
Save Humanity: Read Chuck Wendig’s Wanderers
Some books offer a reader a window into cultural and political feelings of their time; reading them helps us understand…
The Queer, Holmesian Flair of The Affair of the Mysterious Letter Is Almost Too Much Fun
The first Sherlock Holmes pastiches started to appear in the early 20th century, predating the death of Sir Arthur Conan…
First Contact Isn’t What it Seems in Cadwell Turnbull’s The Lesson
Debut novelist Cadwell Turnbull sets The Lesson on the island of St. Thomas where he grew up. The publisher has billed this…
Christina Henry’s The Girl in Red Is Not Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
Christina Henry, the author of the Black Wings urban fantasy series, has, in the past several years, shifted her focus…
Galactic Kitchen Confidential: The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz
Located on a space station that is more relay stop than destination, the titular restaurant in Ferret Steinmetz’s The Sol…
A Memorable Villain Anchors The Outside’s Surreal Sci-Fi Suspense
A good villain can make or break a book—think of The Silence of the Lambs‘ Hannibal Lecter, Heart of Darkness‘s…
In The Grand Dark, Richard Kadrey Delivers Atmospheric Dystopian Noir
The Grand Dark, the new standalone novel by Sandman Slim author Richard Kadrey, understands the true horror of a dystopia. After…
Memory Doesn’t Serve in Blake Crouch’s Recursion
A mysterious illness that meddles with memories. A seemingly endless series of time loops. At least five nuclear holocausts. And,…
Empress of Forever Is a Fiercely Feminist Space Opera
On the surface, the sprawling, bizarro space opera Empress of Forever marks a departure for Max Gladstone, author of the Hugo-nominated Craft…
The Fate of the World Is at Stake in The Gameshouse
Though Claire North’s The Gameshouse collects three novellas previously only available as ebooks, it works quite beautifully as a novel in three…
Fall; or Dodge in Hell Is Neal Stephenson’s Technological Take on the Mythic Epic
If anyone can fuse near-future science fiction and the mythologically epic within a single novel, it’s Neal Stephenson—even if he…
Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town Delves into the History of One of the Show’s Best Characters
Steeped in geeky pleasures like gaming and horror and drenched in ’80s nostalgia, Netflix’s Stranger Things seems rather unlikely as…