“Tomorrow is where my hope lives. I can’t be normal, so I’ll be something else.” “I will spread the word like a virus.” All aboard the hype train – Choo! Choo! Nnedi Okorafor’s Death of the Author (William Morrow 2025) is a beautiful marriage of literary fiction and science fiction that scratches a particular itch.Continue reading “DEATH OF THE AUTHOR – Nnedi Okorafor”
Tag Archives: Science Fiction
IN ASCENSION – Martin MacInnes
The Booker train is heading into the station to pick up the 2024 longlist, while will be announced next week, and to be honest, I’m ready to be done with the 2023 list. I’ve found it overwhelming “meh.” I still have one more to read, a book which hasn’t been published in the US yet,Continue reading “IN ASCENSION – Martin MacInnes”
STARTER VILLAIN – John Scalzi
Sometimes you buy a book strictly because of its cover. This is one of those times. Admittedly the cover should have an orange and white kitty on it, and this annoys me, but how fun is this? I’ve never read John Scalzi before, but his brand of quirky SF is exactly the kind of candyContinue reading “STARTER VILLAIN – John Scalzi”
THE FRACTURED DARK – Megan E. O’Keefe
After raving about the first book in Megan E. O’Keefe’s The Devoured Worlds series, I couldn’t wait to dive back into space with my favorite out of this world duo, Naira and Tarquin. The second book in the series, The Fractured Dark, releases TOMORROW (9/26/2023), and I am so grateful Orbit sent me an earlyContinue reading “THE FRACTURED DARK – Megan E. O’Keefe”
THE BLIGHTED STARS – Megan E. O’Keefe
I didn’t have crying over a spaceship on my 2023 reader’s bingo card, but Megan E. O’Keefe’s The Blighted Stars (Orbit 2023) was a pleasant surprise. This space opera is nonstop action, pulling the reader along before you can even catch your breath or gather your thoughts. And it’ll make you cry over a spaceship.Continue reading “THE BLIGHTED STARS – Megan E. O’Keefe”
THE MEMORY OF ANIMALS – Claire Fuller
“This is grief, Neffy… It is awful and terrible, and it will never truly leave, but you will learn to live with it, and you have to let me help you.” I didn’t anticipate having a pandemic book framed by a woman’s teetering-into-inappropriate relationship with an octopus as one of my top reads of theContinue reading “THE MEMORY OF ANIMALS – Claire Fuller”
THE MANY DAUGHTERS OF AFONG MOY – Jamie Ford
“A woman carries her fear inside of her.” Jamie Ford’s The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (Atria Books 2022) is an intriguing approach to inherited trauma. Epigenetic inheritance is at the core of Ford’s novel, and the science as well as case studies are absolutely fascinating. Set primarily in 2045, but timeline hopping from 1836Continue reading “THE MANY DAUGHTERS OF AFONG MOY – Jamie Ford”
KLARA AND THE SUN – Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro may be the odds-on favorite for the 2021 Booker Prize, and understandably so. Not only is he a previous winner (Remains of the Day 1989), he is arguably one of the most heralded contemporary English authors. I don’t think anyone was surprised to see Klara and the Sun (Knopf 2021) make an appearanceContinue reading “KLARA AND THE SUN – Kazuo Ishiguro”
RIOT BABY – Tochi Onyebuchi
“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.” Riot Baby, 124 Tochi Onyebuchi’s Riot Baby (2020) perfectly illustrates how successful science fiction can be at providingContinue reading “RIOT BABY – Tochi Onyebuchi”
A Girl Named Tommi 