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Saturday, March 22, 2025
FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
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If you strand a bunch of (mostly) 20 something year old adults who work in a theme park for 35 days during a natural disaster, what do you...
Grown Women by Sarai Johnson
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Sarai Johnson teaches writing and literature courses at Howard and American Universities in the DC Area, and apparently wrote Grown Women, h...
Saturday, March 15, 2025
The Power by Naomi Alderman
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This is a story that Alderman describes as feminist science fiction - a type of speculative fiction that I like to call a "what-if...
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia
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Moreno Garcia does an amazing job setting the right mood in this newer gothic tale. Set in Mexico in the 1950's, you forget that the wo...
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Tchaikovsky has a knack for making humans supporting actors in his space-faring opera about intelligent animal life. After reading Children ...
Sunday, December 29, 2024
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
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I love "what if" books, where you have a premise that the author just goes with, no matter how out there it is. And the question o...
Saturday, December 21, 2024
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
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*some spoilers ahead* If you, like me, had never heard of this book until Netflix aired the eponymous series, it's ok. Sometimes we watc...
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