It’s not even December and we’re already filling up our to-read lists for 2016. Today’s addition comes to us via Titan Books, which next summer will publish Escapology, the debut novel from Ren Warom, the UK-based author of the novella The Lonely Dark. Titan calls her “an exciting voice in the New Weird,” which is music to the […]
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 […]
Ren Warom’s Escapology took cyberpunk on a wild ride through a slick, stylized mega-city full of monstrous villains and Lovecraftian AI, providing a new view on a virtual world. But when a book ends with the heroes literally snapping reality over their knee like loose kindling, where does one go next? How do you revisit characters at […]
We’ve already told you our picks for the year’s best science fiction and fantasy books. Then we figured, why not see what books their authors are reading. After all, who would know better what works in the genre are worthy of celebrating than those who know exactly how much work goes in to creating one […]
Look, what else do we need to say to convince you to read Escapology? We’ve already recognized Ren Warom’s novel as part of the vanguard of New Wave Cyberpunk, an electric debut, and one of the best sci-fi novels of 2016. Did our assertion that it “grabs cyberpunk by the throat and drags it into deeper, stranger waters” not […]