Book Review: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility first came out in 2022. It made a bit of a splash in speculative fiction booklists, appearing alongside others like Babel by R.F. Kuang, How High We…
Book Review: Agency by William Gibson
After watching the TV adaptation of The Peripheral in 2022, I was curious about what was next on William Gibson’s Jackpot trilogy. While I hadn’t read the first book, I…
Book Review: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
What if the British government discovered time travel and decided the best use of this world-altering technology was... bureaucracy? That's the delightfully absurd premise of Kaliane Bradley's debut novel, which…
Book Review: The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
Sometime last year while scouring booklists online for new reads, I came across The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard. It’s a coming-of-age story about a sixteen-year-old girl named Odile…
7 Fantasy Books that Explore the Weird & the Surreal
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd Nell Young’s whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the field and Nell’s personal hero. But…
7 Science Fiction Books for Curious Minds
Whether it's multiversal travel, virtual reality, dystopian futures, UFOs/UAPs and Aliens or Genetic Engineering, science fiction has no shortage of strange and exciting topics to explore. The good news is,…
Book Review: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
I just finished reading ‘The Three Body Problem’ by Chinese author Liu Cixin. It’s the first of a sci-fi trilogy set in China, spanning several decades. It begins in 1960s…