Trigger warnings for references to sexual and physical abuse of children. An extraordinarily hard life […]
The Dagger in Vichy, by Alastair Reynolds
A traveling troupe of players and their fading star of a playwright make their way […]
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us, by Yiming Ma
I’ve never seen a story illustrate Orwell’s maxim from 1984 that “He who controls the […]
Ten Incarnations of Rebellion, by Vaishnavi Patel
Vaishnavi Patel imagines an India that didn’t gain independence in 1947. Instead, in the world […]
The Ancients, by John Larison
With more than seven billion people on this teeming planet, it’s hard to imagine the […]
The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley
Time travel stories usually follow the exploits of someone rocketing through time to change history. […]
Saturnalia, by Stephanie Feldman
Trigger warning for rape. It’s the end of the world for most people in Stephanie […]
Outlawed, by Anna North
Although biology and societal convention push Ada into it, she is really not cut out […]
The Carnival of Ash, by Tom Beckerlegge
In The Carnival of Ashes, Tom Beckerlegge takes us back centuries, to a time when […]
The Kingdoms, by Natasha Pulley
Beware of Scottish standing stones! It was true in the Outlander series and it’s true […]