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Review: <em>The Road to Roswell</em> by Connie Willis

Author Connie Willis outdoes herself with humor and heart in The Road to Roswell, where a stealthy, desperate first contact…

2 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>The Sky is Yours</em> by Chandler Klang Smith

The Sky is Yours is a genre-bending book that takes place in a wild, post-apocalyptic world with both dragons and…

3 years ago

Review: <em>Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick</em> by David Wong

I’m a big fan of author David Wong, and his latest family-friendly-read-aloud-to-the-kids book, Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick,…

5 years ago

Review: <em>Revenger</em> by Alastair Reynolds

I’m a big fan of Alastair Reynold’s earlier books like Revelation Space. I didn’t like Terminal World, his foray into…

5 years ago

Review: <em>Honor Among Thieves</em> by Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre

This YA novel is surprisingly inventive with a great, trouble-causing, mouthy protagonist, the kind you can’t wait to see what…

5 years ago

Review: <em>Midnight Robber</em> by Nalo Hopkinson

As a straight white middle-aged male, I’ve often felt like science fiction’s target demographic. Most SF feels like it’s aimed…

6 years ago

Review: <em>Six Wakes</em> by Mur Lafferty

Six Wakes is a good old-fashioned murder mystery in space that starts with everyone on the ship being murdered. Everyone’s…

6 years ago

Review: <em>Semiosis</em> by Sue Burke

Given a billion more years of evolution, what would plants evolve into? Given that life on Earth went from single-celled…

6 years ago

Review: <em>The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.</em> by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. is brilliant, fast-paced, and will give you sore wrists because it’s a thick, heavy…

7 years ago