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The City & The City by China Mieville
Imagine a drab, Eastern-bloc type of city side by side with a brighter, more prosperous city, with the border between them so undemarcated that people on one side of a street can be in Beszel and, on...
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The Postmistress & Blackout
The heroism of Londoners as they took shelter during nightly bombing raids and carried out their business in as close an approximation to usual as possible during the day quickly become legendary. Two...
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Horror for Halloween
> Horror and horror movies are booming, and just in time for Halloween.Like other genres, horror doesn’t get much notice from book reviewers, but there really are some good horror writers out there....
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All Clear by Connie Willis
Connie Willis is one of my favorite writers, so I was ready to accept her word that the story she started in Blackout (Feb. 2010) of time travelers stuck in the London Blitz needed to stretch over two...
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Among Others by Jo Walton
Like many readers, I keep a list of books I eventually want to get to, but author Jo Walton mentions so many intriguing titles in Among Others, a novel in diary form, that they threaten to completely...
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Waiting on Wednesday – All About Emily
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating. This week’s pre-publication “can’t-wait-to-read” selection is:...
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Waiting on Wednesday — The Night Eternal
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating. This week’s pre-publication “can’t-wait-to-read” selection is:...
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Waiting on Wednesday – Fear by Michael Grant (YA)
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating. This week’s pre-publication “can’t-wait-to-read” selection is:...
View ArticleA More Diverse Universe #diversiverse
The A More Diverse Universe blog tour is hosted by Aarti at BookLust. This is the second year for #diversiverse, and although it’s going to be a little less elaborate, it’s a great way to diversify...
View ArticleTime Traveling into Southern Slavery: Kindred by Octavia Butler #diversiverse
The A More Diverse Universe blog tour is hosted by Aarti at BookLust. Click here or on the badge above to read other posts about speculative fiction (a term that [...]
View ArticleNotes from an Alien Assassin: The Humans by Matt Haig @MattHaig1
In The Humans by Matt Haig, an alien from outer space (way, way out in space) has been sent to Earth on a mission to prevent humans from knowing too much, and is sending updates on his [...]
View ArticleNew Humanity: Dawn by Octavia Butler #diversiverse
Getting my #Diversiverse post in under the wire, I just finished Dawn by science fiction author Octavia Butler this afternoon, the first book in the Lilith’s Brood trilogy. A More Diverse Universe...
View ArticleLow-Voltage Horror: Revival by Stephen King
I’ve been on a Stephen King kick over the past several years, after getting hooked by the audiobook edition of Lisey’s Story (narrated by Mare Winningham) which, like Revival – his latest – was more a...
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