Though I haven’t read any of his stories myself, I can understand why Lovecraft‘s Cthulu […]
The Blizzard, by Vladimir Sorokin
Platon Ilich Garin has a mission. He must get a vaccine to Dolgoye to stop […]
The Bookman, by Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar’s The Bookman introduces us to a bold alternate world flavored by Western literature. I […]
Everfair, by Nisi Shawl
Eddie Izzard explains colonization in such a way that it highlights the absurdity of people […]
The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
I read dark books. I know my tastes are not for everyone, and I am […]
The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats, by Mark Hodder
Time has been out of joint for a long time in Sir Richard Francis Burton’s […]
Mr. Eternity, by Aaron Thier
Being a literature major and librarian has given me a more-than-healthy skepticism about what I […]
Under the Harrow, by Mark Dunn
I had a conversation earlier this week with a fellow reader about how young adult […]
My Real Children, by Jo Walton
What if. What if. What if. This question drives to much fiction, but we rarely […]
The Swan Book, by Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book is hypnotic and disturbing. Wright pairs the long history of injustice […]