This year, Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece — and the anxieties it embodied — celebrates is bicentennial.
Classic novels are classic for a reason: while their contemporaries fade into obscurity, they live on, telling timeless human stories that never become dated. No reader’s library is complete without the classics, where they’ll find all the romance, mystery, thrills, and storytelling magic they could ask for. These beautifully bound editions of indispensable works look great on […]
For those of us who are not aliens who gain superpowers from Earth’s yellow sun, there are a limited number of options available when we need to travel somewhere far away. Short of someone inventing those cool portal things from Hyperion, it’s down to walking, riding on wheels or rails, or hopping on a plane. Even in a […]
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 […]
We All Looked Up is Tommy Wallach’s debut, set during the last weeks of life on earth—that is, if Ardor, an asteroid hurtling toward Earth’s atmosphere, makes impact with the planet. Four teenagers are forced to decide not just how to live out their final weeks, but how to do so with the knowledge they just might have a […]