2021 was a stellar year in books, both in terms of the amount of new works produced this year, and also in my sheer fortune in getting around to older works. I’ve always made it a point to . . .
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One surefire way to get me to pick up a book is by telling me it’s a locked-room murder mystery. And if it’s set in space? Well, then I’m sold twice over. That’s the premise of Tade Thompson’s new book, Far from the Light of Heaven, out 10/26. . . .
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Lincoln Michel’s The Body Scout follows Kobo, a baseball talent scout who turns amateur detective following the gory, public death of his brother, baseball superstar JJ Zunz. It’s a propulsive ride . . .
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The titular character in Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel Klara and the Sun is an Artificial Friend (AF), a type of android built for the companionship of genetically-enhanced children. Much like Mr. Ishiguro’s previous novel Never Let Me Go, this story’s unspecified place and time are much like our own,
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S.A. Cosby’s Blacktop Wasteland tells the story of Beauregard “Bug” Montage, an auto mechanic who, following some financial setbacks, finds himself returning to the life of crime he thought he’d left behind. As straightforward as that premise might be, this novel is anything but …
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Isabel Yap's Never Have I Ever is a collection of thirteen genre-bending stories of love, friendship, and things that make life worth living. It's got folklore and near-future SF and ghost stories and everything I love, but most of all, it is very Filipino. . . .
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Sarah Gailey’s latest novel, The Echo Wife, has a straightforward premise: brilliant scientist Evelyn Caldwell gets left by her husband Nathan for her more docile clone, Martine. When Nathan ends up murdered, the two women have to work together to cover it up…
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I’ve just finished reading Ring Shout by P. Djéli Clark, and it made me feel so many things in so few words. It’s a novella that has the depth and breadth of a novel, a really meaty one at that…
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There’s something serendipitous and surreal about reading Moby Dick at the same time that the Internet blows up in sea shanties. I definitely appreciated…
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