Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Genre | Science Fiction Novella Page #s | 160Publishing Date | July 2021 Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers’s delightful new seriesContinue Reading
Tag: Science fiction
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Genre | Fantasy / Science Fiction Page #s | 512Publishing Date | August 2020 Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to GideonContinue Reading
Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders
Genre | YA Science Fiction Page #s | 283Publishing Date | April 2021 Tina never worries about being ‘ordinary’—she doesn’tContinue Reading
10 Underrated LGBTQ+ Books
In general, queer literature tends to get less press than other genres, although increasingly, LGBTQ+ stories are getting the attentionContinue Reading
Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield
Alice Payne returns in the thrilling sequel to Kate Heartfield’s Alice Payne Arrives. After abducting Arthur of Brittany from hisContinue Reading
Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield
Alice Payne Arrives is a fun novella about women of color being awesome during all time periods. Alice is an 18th century Englishwoman who has a side hobby of robbing men who are known to be rapists or wifebeaters with the help of her lady lover’s automaton. Prudence is a 22nd century teleosopher (someone who studies the way time travel changes history) with a drastic plan to end the History War.
Trans-Galactic Bike Ride edited by Lydia Rogue
Genre | Anthology of Science Fiction Short Stories Page #s | 156Publishing Date | December 2020 What would the futureContinue Reading
FINNA by Nino Cipri
Genre | Science Fiction Novella Page #s | 136Publishing Date | February 2020 When an elderly customer at a bigContinue Reading
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Reading Gideon the Ninth for the first time is a chaotic dump of dense entertainment; Rereading Gideon the Ninth is a masterpiece. The first time through, it took me about 100 pages to be fully invested in the story, though Gideon’s brash attitude and compelling internal voice (and external, to be clear) endeared me to her immediately. Still, it wasn’t until Gideon and Harrow left home for the challenges in Canaan House with other necromancers and cavaliers that I became fully invested. The second time through? I was all in, immediately!
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Martha Wells has written a series of novellas and occasional novels about Murderbot, a security robot that I adore. I mean, how can you not immediately fall in love with a character and a story that begins with “I’m a murderbot, but instead of murdering I’ve watched 35,000 hours of tv.”
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
I can’t say I liked this book, but I’m so glad I read it and I want everyone in the world to read More Happy Than Not. I read the entire thing in one night: it was wholly engrossing, and then the plot kicked me upside the head and I learned a new kind of desperation for MUST READ. This is not a feel-good book, but it might leave you feeling….no I can’t do the cheesy “more happy than not” line. Because honestly, I closed the book feeling more UNhappy than not. I tend to expect my YA books to have happily ever after endings, and this one was serious is a wonderful but disconcerting way.
