As a lapsed marine zoologist, I couldn’t help but love A Darkling Sea. It has aliens, intrigue, desperate missions, and…
I have a bad habit of getting excited by a book and skimming, eager to find out what happens next.…
Accelerando moves like a bat out of hell and made me afraid that the future’s going to tear us all…
Like his earlier book Do Not Resuscitate, Ponticello’s prose reads like a less-angry Vonnegut. However, in The Maiden Voyage of…
Flowers for Algernon is a beautiful, human book, with a little science fiction thrown in. It examines morals and ethics…
Despite the title, this isn't about 9/11. The three books in this collection were written in the sixties. They don’t…
If, before sitting down to write 1984, George Orwell had decided to candy-flip (ingest LSD and ecstasy simultaneously), he might…
Panda Ray is a rare beast: a fun and weird adventure for kids where there is no Chosen One. Thank…
The City & The City is a noirish crime novel with some wonderfully inventive world-building, but its flat, wooden characters…
In The Drowned World, the sun’s become too hot (130°F on a good day), and the cities of the world…