You can find a lot of unfamiliar things in the wide world of science fiction—strange landscapes, alien species, even completely twisted laws of physics. One thing that always seems to stay the same? The law of needing a hot caffeinated beverage when you wake up in the morning. In honor of my morning latte, here […]
The Philip K. Dick Award, presented annually to “distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States,” is, perhaps, my favorite literary honor. There’s something freeing about the paperback original format that seems to allow up-and-coming authors a shot at publishing truly singular books. Look no further than a list of past […]
December is the perfect season for a binge, be it on food (it’s sweater weather), alcohol (family time ahoy!), or books and television (it’s cold outside!). Well, we can’t tell you what to eat or drink, but we relish telling you what books to read to scratch a particular itch. In that spirit, this holiday […]
The second novel by Finnish author Emmi Itäranta (Memory of Water), begins as a conspiracy thriller set in a dystopian fantasy kingdom, and quickly unfolds into something altogether more. It introduces its real story slowly and subtly, building a world and exploring why it came to be that way, until it eventually transmutes into something surprising. With vivid imagery, subtle menace, […]
