One of the great things about fiction is that an author can explore how our […]
Lonely Werewolf Girl, by Mark Millar
Have you ever read a book and, part way through, start to wonder why the […]
The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Years of Rice and Salt imagines a world without Europeans. As I read Kim […]
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, by Mark Hodder
Mark Hodder’s The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack takes the grandfather paradox and runs […]
The Half Made World, by Felix Gilman
Above all else, I’d have to say that Felix Gilman’s The Half-Made World is a very […]
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
Continuing my efforts to read the books I missed as an undergraduate but should have […]
Bone Rattler, by Eliot Pattison
Pattison’s Bone Rattler is an unconventional mystery. There are no police. The “detective” is an […]
The Plague, by Albert Camus
I’ve been meaning to read The Plague, by Albert Camus, for a long time. For […]
Who Fears Death, by Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death is a book that it should have been a lot […]
Kindred, by Olivia Butler
Octavia Butler’s Kindred is a book that unflinchingly answers the question of why readers read: […]