Tag: Science fiction
-
Now’s a Good Time for a Dystopia
Today’s reading list features that stalwart genre of anxious times: the dystopia. I’ve tried to collect some newer and more unusual examples for this list, rather than the old standards that you see on every list. Not only are these novels prime escapist fare, but they serve as a helpful reminder that things could always…
-
Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
This is a series of book reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Water Knife by Paolo Backigalupi (2015) In the near future, climate change has brought about drought and constant dust storms in the American Southwest, resulting in the collapse of several cities as well as the state of Texas, and…
-
Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber (2014) A Christian preacher travels to another planet, Oasis, to minister to the alien natives and finds himself becoming more distant from his wife, left behind on Earth where society seems to…
-
Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2011 Novels
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. These are shorter reviews of good reads published in 2011. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (2011) The notorious hired killers, the Sisters brothers, set out on one last job to track down and kill a gold miner and…
-
Favorite Books of the 2010s: Embassytown by China Mieville
The is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Embassytown by China Miéville (2011) Avice is a human colonist on a planet at the farthest edge of navigable space populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, who returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space…
-
Favorite Time Travel Novels
Today I started reading An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim, which promises to be an engaging time travel story. And like every good geek, I saw Avengers: Endgame this past weekend, which also plays around with time travel. I enjoy time travel stories because their mind-bending possibilities are so abundant, but it’s difficult to write time travel well. The…
-
Recommended Reading: Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin
I had been trying to recommend a new read each month, and I still fell behind on my recommendations. So of course I’m upping my goal to recommending a new read each week! Starting with this one… Does Ursula K. Le Guin write bad books? If so, I haven’t found them. While this collection of…
-
Links for readers…
Happy new year! I have decided that 2016 is the year of not giving a fuck. And yes, there is a book for that. Here’s a fresh roundup of links for your reading pleasure. Those books that we buy and then pile up on our shelves, unread? There is a word for that. Rebecca Solnit,…
Shannon Turlington 