Science Fiction
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THE TEN PERCENT THIEF by Lavanya Lakshminarayan (BOOK REVIEW)
“Perhaps the future is a joke, after all, and they should stop taking themselves so seriously.” “Absolute power is its own weakness. It is in its ... -
WALKING PRACTICE by Dolki Min, translated by Victoria Caudle (BOOK REVIEW)
“I wasn’t raised as a life-form of limited imagination. But truthfully, on my home planet, no one could have imagined that there is something that walks ... -
HEL’S EIGHT by Stark Holborn (Book Review)
In Hel’s Eight, Holborn returns to the desolate moon of Factus and her ex-con protagonist Ten Low, both place and person strangely haunted by the “Ifs.” ... -
THE TEN PERCENT THIEF by Lavanya Lakshminarayan (BOOK REVIEW)
Nobody notices anything because nothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin. And end. Lavanya Lakshminarayan is a Locus Award finalist and ... -
CHILDREN OF MEMORY by Adrian Tchaikovsky (BOOK REVIEW)
Having finished 2022 with Walking to Aldebaran I opened 2023 with another Tchaikovsky work Children of Memory, the third (and last?) in the series that began ... -
STATION ELEVEN by Emily St. John Mandel (BOOK REVIEW)
Dr Eleven: What was it like for you, at the end? Captain Lonagan: It was exactly like waking up from a dream ‘St. John’s my ... -
EMPATHY by Hoa Pham (BOOK REVIEW)
“We have always been we. Then they forced us to become you and I.” “What is free will? Do we honestly have free will when we ... -
PHOENIX CAFE by Gwyneth Jones (BOOK REVIEW)
“It’s simply that I’m trying to understand them this time, instead of looting. I want to feel their pain, their whole culture of grief and fear.” ... -
NORTH WIND by Gwyneth Jones (BOOK REVIEW)
“Race is bullshit, he said. Culture is everything.” “’It was the Aleutians,’ said the halfcaste, forgetting to protest that the war wasn’t really about gender. ‘The ... -
WHITE QUEEN by Gwyneth Jones (BOOK REVIEW)
“Everything was alive: rock, metal, food, tools. Everything was crawling with the infection of Aleutia: a world of flesh infested with the life of its people.” ...
