Dr. No reads like the author does not care whether anyone reads this book or not; he had fun writing…
Super Sad True Love Story is an engaging, literary love story that takes place in a near-future dystopian society where…
Written in 1959, A Canticle for Leibowitz is one of the first real literary science fiction books, and an enduring,…
The Sky is Yours is a genre-bending book that takes place in a wild, post-apocalyptic world with both dragons and…
Oryx and Crake is an excellent book, interesting and strange, that grabs your attention and doesn’t let go. It manages…
Author Jeff VanderMeer is known for his surreal sci-fi Southern Reach trilogy (the first book was Annihilation, which was made…
The alternate history Never Let Me Go follows the lives of several children who grew up in a strange, special…
My kid is learning to play the piano, and part of that is using dynamics: playing some parts of the…
I’m not usually a big fan of post-apocalyptic stories, but Station Eleven is a great story and exceptionally well-written. (more…)
Roadside Picnic is short, bleak, and fantastic. It has a typical Russian life-is-a-meaningless-struggle-against-absurdity vibe, but there’s enough going on to…