scifi

Kitty Cat Kill Sat

Kitty Cat Kill Sat, by Argus, is a space opera about Lily ad-Alice, a 400-year-old super-intelligent kitty cat, who operates…

2 weeks ago

The Secret People

The Secret People is John Wyndham's first novel, a pulpy adventure story about the civilization living under the Sahara Desert. …

1 month ago

Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We

Written about 100 years ago, We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin, is often considered the first dystopian novel. I'd read We back…

1 month ago

Doomsday Book

Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book combines science fiction and historical fiction in a time travel drama, with academia and the plague.…

2 months ago

Time Hopper Book 2: The Tale Of The Sand Dwellers

In the first Time Hopper novel, we saw the brilliant and wealthy Dan Walton decide to start an invention company…

6 months ago

Time Hopper

Time Hopper is a new scifi novel by Os Ibrahim. The story follows Dan Walton’s internal and external quests. Dan…

6 months ago

New Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection: Writers of the Future, Vol. 40

Writers of the Future , Volume 40 is this year's collection of sci-fi and fantasy stories from emerging authors, illustrated…

7 months ago

Gods on Trial Book 1: Beyond the Father

In Beyond the Father, the opening novel of the planned eight-part scifi/fantasy epic series Gods on Trial by Opëshum Patroz,…

8 months ago

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

I really wanted to read this Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 collection because it included stories from Theodora…

9 months ago

Ghost Station

Ghost Station, by S A Barnes, is a new space suspense story.  The novel's tension comes from a distant, deep-space…

10 months ago

John Christopher’s ‘The Guardians’

The Guardians, a YA scifi novel by John Christopher, was published in 1970 and set in the year 2052. In…

10 months ago

Dark, Solitary Adventures of “Empty World”

Published in 1977,  John Christopher's scifi novel Empty World describes a world decimated by the Calcutta Plague, a deadly virus…

11 months ago

Trouble With Lichen

Trouble with Lichen is a 1960 scifi novel by John Wyndham. The story revolves around the discovery of a new…

11 months ago

The Chrysalids

The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham, is a 1955 science fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic world. Some unexplained worldwide nuclear…

1 year ago

Battlefield Earth

Battlefield Earth takes place in a dark, distant future where our Earth has been conquered by powerful aliens, the Psychlos.…

1 year ago

The Wormwood Trilogy: Rosewater

Rosewater takes readers to a fascinating specfic future in Nigeria. I was immediately intrigued with Kaaro's abilities as a sensitive,…

1 year ago

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles

After the end of The Mimicking of Known Successes, Mossa and Pleiti discover another strange disappearance to solve in The…

1 year ago

Writers of the Future 39

I’ve been reading the Writers of the Future annual SF/F anthology for a few years now, since WofF31, so  I…

2 years ago

Nerd Friends and Wild Creatures in “The Kaiju Preservation Society”

I originally noped out of the first scenes of The Kaiju Preservation Society, because they were about a shady startup…

2 years ago

Mutant Octopus and Coming-of-Age in Sea Change

Sea Change, by Gina Chung, is about Dolores, a giant octopus in captivity, and about Ro, who cares for Dolores…

2 years ago

This Time Tomorrow

I just loved This Time Tomorrow, by Emma Straub. Y'all know I love a good wibbley-wobbley timey-wimey story, when linear…

2 years ago

Doctor Who: The Good Doctor

I got The Good Doctor, by Juno Dawson, on our stop at Who North America. Our whole road trip this summer…

2 years ago

Gaslamps Gas Giant in “The Mimicking of Known Successes”

The Mimicking of Known Successes, by Malka Older, was the kind of book where I wanted to read faster to…

2 years ago

Pride and Prejudice in Space #JAFF

Pride and Prejudice in Space, by Sybil Nelson, is basically the dream fanfic premise. An entirely new world for Lizzie…

3 years ago

‘Upgrade’ by Blake Crouch

I was excited to get Blake Crouch's new novel Upgrade, because I'd enjoyed both Dark Matter and Recursion. This is…

3 years ago