Ben H. Winters’ The Last Policeman is a book that is going to haunt me […]
Cinder, by Marissa Meyer
This book–more specifically, the ending of this book–is going to piss off a lot of […]
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
I freely admit that I read this book because of the movie trailer. I wanted […]
Redshirts: A Novel With Three Codas, by John Scalzi
Some of my favorite books are meta. Since I discovered this genre-spanning fiction, I’ve been […]
The Android’s Dream, by John Scalzi
I picked up John Scalzi’s The Android’s Dream on a whim…and then I finished it […]
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
I read an article recently that posits that some literary writers “slum” by writing genre […]
The Long Earth, by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
I’m a big fan of Terry Pratchett and have been for years. But his collaboration […]
Making History, by Stephen Fry
I think the second most frequently asked question about time travel (after the question about […]
The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Great books ask big what if questions. And Ursula Le Guin asks a doozy in […]
The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Have you ever played the game where you thought up what you would wish if […]