You should read Trust. You should NOT read the back flap or any summary of the plot of the book. I expect some will find the experimental...

What's the most we can hope for from a book? What about alerting us readers to a slightly dopey assumption about the world we've been...

You have time to read ten books today, right? Here are ten books to dive into for a big picture view of this big beautiful rock! 1. Under...

Collapse by Jared Diamond Collapse is an incredible collection of histories tracing the rise, fall, and success of civilizations around...

Kaikeyi is a reimagining of a Hindu epic called the Ramayan. Patel's title character is the daughter of a Raja. Despite her exalted...

Ah, the TCFCPWLLMSE season is finally here. As a bookseller who spent a lot of time in college learning about Arrhenius, Laplace, and...

My introduction to N. K. Jemisin came with her essay, How Long 'till Black Future Month, which demanded more representation in scifi...

2021 was a great year for page-turning noir. Colson Whitehead followed his 2nd Pulitzer with Harlem Shuffle, Silvia Moreno Garcia scored...

Arkady Martine made a big splash in 2019 with A Memory Called Empire, a story of palace intrigue that takes place in the capital of a...

She (Red) is a lethal and merciless cyborg assassin created by the Agency. She (Blue) is a patient and cunning biological weapon grown by...

Contemplating the impact humans have on the rest of the world can be a real downer. It's important to remember that we are capable of...

Even the worst science fiction takes us somewhere extraordinary, a vacation from the everyday. Good science fiction asks us to ponder...

It's a little embarrassing to admit that only a short time ago I had wondered why no one had written a gritty, realistic novel set in the...

Digital immortality has become a popular form of utopia in science fiction. In Walkaway, Cory Doctorow's characters undergo a brain scan...

The diversity of heroines in SFF- through examples from Cory Doctorow, Jeff Vandermeer, and Kazou Ishiguro. The diversity of authors now...

The rise of Amazon and digital media are closing bookstores. Would it be madness to open a new book shop in 2021? I hope not! I believe...

I enjoyed reading this book, it represents some solid research and good ideas and it explored historical events I knew nothing about and...

Thanks to my sister for gifting me this for Christmas. It's already been lauded by many more eloquent and distinguished than me, but I...

Stop Saving the Planet: An Environmentalist Manifesto is a short (144 page), witty rant of a book by a dedicated environmentalist...