Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next Series #2)

It’s that time when everyone starts looking forward to the new year—the fresh start, the clean slate, the boundless opportunities. If you’re a sci-fi fan, of course, you may also be thinking about the possibility that this is the year the world ends; after all, the genre loves a good apocalypse. In fact, SF books have […]

Footnotes in fiction are a tricky business. Handled poorly, they can be the bane of a reader’s existence (1). But in the right hands and the right circumstances, footnotes open up entirely new narrative possibilities (2). Footnotes can add context, build lore and history, introduce new characters, misdirect where desired, or even just make you […]

Building a cohesive epic fantasy universe is tricky stuff, and perhaps nothing is trickier than coming up with character names that are suitably exotic without crossing over into the ridiculous. And while we certainly trust authors—who undoubtedly have reams of historical and linguistic documentation to justify their naming schemes—sometimes the result is a book in […]

It is the year 2085 in the corporate and environmental wasteland that was once the United States of America. All 50 states have seceded from the Union. Lawlessness is the law of he land, and the fate of what’s left of humanity rests on the shoulders of a young factory worker named Truckee Wallace and […]