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There are creatures in the water of Con Dao. To the locals, they're monsters. To …
The framing of "point fives" is particularly thought-provoking given the steadily increasing number of news reports of llm-induced psychosis
Jeremy Shipp brings you The Atrocities, a haunting gothic fantasy of a young ghost's education …
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My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.
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Nola Washington has never met a problem she can't solve. She's a fashionista and an …
My wife’s graphic novel, Curlfriends: Back in Business, is on The Strategist’s “The Best New Books for Kids Published in 2025” list! Super proud of her, and loved watching her make these books.
Traveling to parallel worlds is a drag. Except when you meet a hottie.
Nina's family …
It's my birthday! A fantastic gift would be if you read and reviewd my debut YA science fiction 'issues' novel from NetGalley!
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What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an …
After the Revolution is kind of a mashup of The Last Girl Scout and Dogs of War, with a hint of Handmaid's Tale. Honestly, if you haven't read any of those, go read them first and then come back.
The premise is that the US has dissolved into a handful of warring nation states (what's happening in the rest of the world? who knows or cares), at least one of which is a christian fundamentalist oligarchy, and the story follows a handful of people in the conflict between that and the Republic of Texas.
It's an engaging read, if not always an easy one. I feel like some of the characters' progression arcs (Sasha) were inconsistent and handwavy. The House of Miriam situation felt almost naively mild in comparison to what would actually happen to those people in that situation, but on the other hand I don't want to read …
After the Revolution is kind of a mashup of The Last Girl Scout and Dogs of War, with a hint of Handmaid's Tale. Honestly, if you haven't read any of those, go read them first and then come back.
The premise is that the US has dissolved into a handful of warring nation states (what's happening in the rest of the world? who knows or cares), at least one of which is a christian fundamentalist oligarchy, and the story follows a handful of people in the conflict between that and the Republic of Texas.
It's an engaging read, if not always an easy one. I feel like some of the characters' progression arcs (Sasha) were inconsistent and handwavy. The House of Miriam situation felt almost naively mild in comparison to what would actually happen to those people in that situation, but on the other hand I don't want to read about the more realistic scenario, so maybe it's a wash.
content warnings: implied rape, graphic and excessive violence, suicide, graphic and excessive drug abuse
There are creatures in the water of Con Dao. To the locals, they're monsters. To …
The #SFFBookClub pick for December 2025
I really like the way that Interference takes the themes from its predecessor and extends them in different directions, without just being like "and this is the next thing that happened to all the same characters".
I particularly enjoyed the way she wove in the contingent from Earth - it reminded me strongly of the later books in the Planetfall series.
New humans, new life forms, new explorations - it builds a great new story on the foundation laid in Semiosis.
When a former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin—who’s up for …
I appreciate that this one had an even more self-sufficient Pleiti, as well as exploring Mossa's fallibility. (I swear I'm not anti-Mossa, I just prefer the "two complementary equals helping people together" dynamic to the "superhuman investigator with sheltered everywoman sidekick" dynamic.)
This one felt more fast-paced and dynamic to me than Imposition, although I suspect that an objective examination would probably reveal that there isn't a significant difference.
In a future hammered by climate change and drought, mountain snows have turned to rain, …
There has never been a better time to read The Water Knife
When a former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin—who’s up for …
I love the variety of loanwords from different settings, and it seems even more ramped up in this installment, but I have to wonder how comprehensible it is to more monolingual folks
Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to …
A solid followup to The Mimicking of Known Successes. Reading these gives me the same feeling as reading a Witness for the Dead.
I like that Pleiti had a little more independent role in this one, so she's on more of an equal footing with Mossa and isn't just Lesbian Watson in Space. (Lesbian Watson in Space is fine as a concept, but I feel like this series has more potential than that.)
What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s …
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This was a hard read.
I identified quite a bit with Riya from the beginning, particularly including the criticism that the researchers were literally objectifying an animal for their own purposes, which did not happen to include helping the animal.
I'm glad that the brain pattern anomalies turned out to be from brain damage instead of something like a two-way connection - it's much more fitting from scientific, literary, and justice perspectives.
I'm missing a sense of finality in the end, feeling a little like Sean's own frustration - Sean didn't grow or change, the corporation keeps on corporating, the research doesn't go anywhere, the wolf pack is going to agonizingly peter out. We just get a snapshot of a bleak slide along an unchanging trajectory from not great to less great, just like real life.
For what it's worth, I'm glad they didn't go all in on the wolf sex.
What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s …
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It would be pretty hard to be married to somebody that I felt like their whole career was unethical
Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, after a routine …
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The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s …
THE BEST AMERICAN Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by me and the amazing John Joseph Adams, is now available.
These stories are profound, hilarious, thoughtful, unsettling... stories that stay with you. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did and congrats to all the contributors ! 👻👀👣🤖👽🧙🏾♀️🐈⬛🫂