Our Lady of the Ice

Six episodes into HBO’s buzzy new science fiction series Westworld, viewers have spun roughly one jillion fan theories about how everything fits together. While we’re given a lot of scenes from inside its futuristic amusement park, where the wealthy go to interact with androids and carry out their worst desires, it’s like watching a play after being transported […]

I can admit it: I first read The Mad Scientist’s Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke almost solely because of the cover. Sure, the plot description made it sound like just my thing, but I looked closer because of the dreamy moon-and-figure-on-the-road that adorned the first edition. What I found within seduced me, embroiled me in a love […]

Cassandra Rose Clarke’s novels to date favor a sense of Gothic claustrophobia. The Mad Scientist’s Daughter details a fraught, largely unrequited relationship between a girl and her android tutor, and then a stuttering romance between a woman and the first of his kind; much of the action, as it were, is set within the childhood home, […]