Near Future

Review: <em>Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia</em> by Jason Pargin

Author Jason Pargin has made a career out of hilarious and fast-moving books with surprisingly intelligent and thoughtful things to…

2 years ago

Review: <em>The Tusks of Extinction</em> by Ray Nayler

The Tusks of Extinction is a short novellette/novelito (smaller than a novella) where mammoths have been resurrected and are roaming…

2 years ago

Review: <em>Venomous Lumpsucker</em> by Ned Beauman

In the near-future world of Venomous Lumpsucker, everything has continued to get worse, to the point where a corporation can…

2 years ago

Review: <em>Titanium Noir</em> by Nick Harkaway

Titanium Noir is an excellent near-future alternate-history murder mystery that follows the murder of a Titan, a medically-enhanced person who…

2 years ago

Review: <em>Gravity</em> by Tess Gerritsen

Gravity is mildly retro, having been written in the 1990s and features several space shuttles, but it’s one of the…

2 years ago

Review: <em>Sleeping Giants</em> by Sylvain Neuvel

Sleeping Giants is a great science fiction thriller/mystery with a fun hook: a girl biking through a forest falls in…

3 years ago

Review: <em>Super Sad True Love Story</em> by Gary Shteyngart

Super Sad True Love Story is an engaging, literary love story that takes place in a near-future dystopian society where…

3 years ago

Review: <em>The Brief History of the Dead</em> by Kevin Brockmeier

The Brief History of the Dead is a fascinating, odd (in the best sense of the word), and deeply inventive…

3 years ago

Review: <em>Doomsday Book</em> by Connie Willis

Connie Willis is one of the few authors capable of humor, humanity, and what must be an ungodly amount of…

3 years ago

Review: <em>Upgrade</em> by Blake Crouch

Upgrade is a fun, fast-paced near-future adventure by Blake Crouch, whose past two books I really enjoyed. In Upgrade, a…

3 years ago