scifi

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…

3 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…

3 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…

4 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,…

5 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…

6 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…

7 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…

7 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…

8 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…

8 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…

9 months 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

2 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

Unique Scifi Suspense in “We Have Always Been Here”

We Have Always Been Here, by Lena Nguyen, is a thoughtful scifi mystery about a colonization ship on a planet…

3 years ago

Sinopticon 2021: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction

Sinopticon 2021: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction, is a new collection of short stories from Chinese scifi authors, presenting…

3 years ago

“The Connection” by Dana Claire

In the beginning of The Connection, by Dana Claire, Bea's trying to be a normal high-schooler after her mother's death.…

4 years ago

Lovecraft Country

Basically every scene that I wasn't into on the show didn't happen in the book, and every relationship that I…

4 years ago