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They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back…
New planets are fair game …
I devoured Shroud. This is Adrian Tchaikovsky at his scifi best - truly alien aliens and humans being humans, engrossing drama ensues.
Refusing the queen’s order to gas a crowd of protesters, Minister Shea Ashcroft is banished …
I didn't enjoy this one, and I don't know if I can explain why. The whole thing has kind of a 70s scifi vibe (derogatory). The protagonist is shallow and self-serving, but not in an interesting way. There are interesting things about the world, but we barely explore them because we're chasing the dull protagonist. 🤷
A goblin with too many pockets and a disturbing affinity for cutlery, a rain-soaked night, …
TIL a new 25-page eBook by author Travis Baldree exists, who wrote the wonderful books Legends and Lattes, and Bookshops and Bonedust.
It's called Goblins and Greatcoats and it's FREE🎉 at Subterranean Press:
Refusing the queen’s order to gas a crowd of protesters, Minister Shea Ashcroft is banished …
Someday I will read a book by a russian author that doesn't have alcoholism as a theme
For fans of Emily St. John Mandel and Kelly Link, a profoundly imaginative debut novel …
Ok, I made it through seven chapters, but this book is really not for me, in more ways than one.
Each chapter is a vignette of the protagonist's life in (apparently) a different parallel universe. Maybe they tie together in the end, I don't know. It doesn't help that I find the main character very unlikable in all her incarnations. It feels very inspired by Cloud Atlas, but not in a good way imo.
The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant …
A Drop of Corruption was a great followup to The Tainted Cup.
I love the universe, it's so delightfully weird and mysterious. Additionally, I appreciate that Din, despite being A Watson, actually does the majority of solving things and unraveling the story, instead of just floundering around until his Holmes solves everything.
Nearly ten years after Inez Kato sustained a career-ending injury during a military exercise gone …
Nebula best novella 2024
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—by Nebula Award-winning debut …
Nebula best novel 2024
Joanna Kalotay lives alone in the woods of Vermont, the sole protector of a collection …
Ink Blood Sister Scribe is a fresh modern fantasy exploring a world where books are magical, in a literal sense. It's fast-paced, well-written, nuanced, and not too predictable or tropey.
Thara Celehar has lost his ability to speak with the dead. When that title of …
The Tomb of Dragons is another solid Thara Celehar.
When I first read The Witness for the Dead, I was disappointed, because it had such different energy than The Goblin Emperor. After finishing The Tomb of Dragons, I went back to The Goblin Emperor again, but I actually stopped fairly quickly and went forward to Witness for the Dead instead, because this time what I wanted was the Thara Celehar energy. I have really come to enjoy how the pacing is very smooth and gradual, while being ultimately relentless. Celehar is never hurried or frantic - he just applies steady pressure to all his problems until they eventually crumble.
For fans of Emily St. John Mandel and Kelly Link, a profoundly imaginative debut novel …
The #SFFBookClub pick for June 2025
Thara Celehar has lost his ability to speak with the dead. When that title of …
Every time I read Ulnemenee, my brain goes "doot doooooot do doo doot"
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …
I really enjoyed The Ministry of Time.
I was frustrated with the protagonist for big chunks of the book for not realizing obvious things. The author repeatedly tried to defend this with "I bet you're thinking 'I would have realized this right away', but" and in a world where I know time travel exists, I absolutely would!
However, the writing is very good, and it kept me engaged. The combination of themes around time travel, colonialism, and refugee life really worked, and I feel like it allowed them to be explored from different angles.
I'm kind of let down by the inconclusiveness of the ending, but on the other hand they avoided most of the cliché time travel tropes, so overall I guess it balances out.
Sue Burke, author of the acclaimed novel Semiosis , returns with Dual Memory, a standalone …
Dual Memory was good, but it didn't fascinate me the way that Semiosis did.
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …
The #SFFBookClub selection for May 2025