Annex

If 2017 disappointed us in a lot of ways, we can’t say it didn’t introduce to a whole stack of amazing debut novels, and we have no reason to expect that 2018 will be any different. While it’s easy enough to mark down, say, Iron Gold on your TBR list, it’s tougher to predict what debuts […]

Five pages into Annex, the debut novel by Rich Larson (best known as the prolific author of much-anthologized short fiction), I knew I was reading something special—but I wasn’t prepared for just how special the book would turn out to be, or why. Bo’s is a hero’s journey for the Generation Z immigrant: uprooted from his […]

Science Fiction and fantasy have explored with different ideas of gender for decades, but in the last few years, we’ve finally begun to see an increased number of works in which transgender characters (very often created by writers who are themselves queer) have taken on leading roles in some genuinely great books. They aren’t there […]

As a genre, science fiction succeeds, in part, because it can be so many things to so many different people. For the liberal-minded, sci-fi, and space opera in particular, offer both hope, in the form of of far-future technological utopias, and dire warnings about the dangers of backward-thinking. Yet in the realm of gender and […]