Feature: Of Sorcery and Science by Mike Chen One thing we love learning about is how authors come to write in the genre(s) they land in. Mike Chen’s niche, which he found after two rejected novels and fifteen years of balancing tech writing with a dream of being a novelist, […]
Review: The Photonic Effect by Mike Chen I have been a Mike Chen fan since his debut and have read everything he has put out since. So when I tell you it genuinely surprised me to realize that The Photonic Effect is his first space opera, I mean that. Everything […]
Books on Our Radar: If All the Stars Go Dark by S.G. Prince If All the Stars Go Dark follows an eighteen-year-old recruit dropped into an elite galactic unit and immediately paired with a partner who wants nothing to do with him. What starts as a tense, ordered-by-command partnership turns […]
Feature: On the Eve of Returning to Hawkins with A Wrinkle in Time The day before Volume 2 of Stranger Things drops feels like the right time to talk about A Wrinkle in Time (specifically the graphic novel edition) which I read to prep for Vol 2. Many thanks to […]
Blog Tour & Book Recommendations: Climate Change, Body Horror, and the New Wave of Cli-Fi It’s here. It’s storm surge and heatwaves, poisoned water and burning skies. It’s also deeply personal, affecting our bodies, our families, and our sense of safety. And in fiction, especially speculative and horror fiction, the […]
Cover Crush: Meet Me at Blue Hour by Sarah Suk When you comp a book to one of my favorite movies ever, it’s going to be an automatic read for me. So when I got the details about Meet Me at Blue Hour by Sarah Suk and they likened it […]
New Release Interview: They Bloom At Night by Trang Thanh Tran They Bloom At Night, is the second YA book from New York Times bestselling & award winning author Trang Thanh Tran, which released on March 4th and is available now! We are thrilled to be able to interview them and […]
BOOR: Why on Earth: An Alien Invasion Anthology ed. by Rosie Thor & Vania Stoyanova Why on Earth: An Alien Invasion Anthology edited by Rosie Thor & Vania Stoyanova should be on your radar, because nothing says escapism *in these times* as much as aliens! Like literally…beam me up, get […]
Books On Our Radar: Luminous Beings by David Arnold & Jose Pimienta Okay we don’t have much time before Luminous Beings a YA graphic novel by David Arnold and illustrated by Jose Pimienta releases into the world (September 3rd), but I just had to make sure one of my favorite […]
Event Recap: The Z Word by Lindsay King-Miller It’s been so long since I’ve been to a regular book event so when I saw that Old Firehouse, my local indie, was hosting Lindsay King-Miller’s queer zombie book, I had to go! I grabbed an audio ARC of this book (narrated […]