Author Kim Stanley Robinson has written some great books, including the Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) and…
The famous Philip K. Dick wrote some amazing books, but in his later years, penned a few stinkers. Fortunately, Ubik…
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…
If you’re a child of the 80s, reading Ready Player One is like mainlining heroin-strength nostalgia. It’s so ridiculously fun…
Nominated for a Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards in 1975, The Mote in God’s Eye has not aged particularly well.…
A ship, powered by a tame black hole, is on a multi-million year mission to place wormholes throughout the galaxy,…
Tom Barren in All Our Wrong Todays is from an ideal version of our present time. No war, no poverty,…
I think author David Wong has invented "trailerpunk"—intelligent, funny, but low-income and low-achieving people save the world in all his…
The Girl With All the Gifts is a wonderful book, which is odd praise for a story about zombies. But…