Somebody’s Daughter is the story of a prostitution ring, based in Nova Scotia, Canada. It opens with the murder of a nineteen year old prostitute, and concludes with the pimps … Read More
Hugo 2016 Novel Nominations: Ancillary Mercy (Ann Leckie)
Ancillary Mercy Ann Leckie Orbit October 6th, 2015 Third in the groundbreaking Imperial Radch trilogy, Breq searches the Athoek Station’s slums and uncovers someone who shouldn’t exist. She also needs … Read More
Book Review: Iron Goddess by Dharma Kelleher
Shea Stevens wakes up to one of the worst days she’s had lately. Her motorcycle shop has been broken into, and not only is her merchandise gone, the custom bikes … Read More
Book Review: The Girls by Emma Cline
Evie Boyd is fourteen, caught in that space between childhood and womanhood. Sick of living the life that her parents want for her, being taken out of public school and … Read More
Book: Paper and Fire (Rachel Caine)
Paper and Fire Rachel Caine NAL Publishing July 5th, 2016 ISBN: 0451472403 (ISBN13: 9780451472403) In this alternate timeline, The Great Library of Alexandria has survived, and … Read More
Hugo 2016 Novel Nominations: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin Orbit August 4th, 2015 My full review of The Fifth Season is available here. It’s a book that I think … Read More
Book Review: Grunt by Mary Roach
Grunt, the latest work by Mary Roach, explores some of the more interesting bits of what keeps the military running. And those bits are even stranger than you’d expect, … Read More
Hugo 2016 Novel Nominations: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Seveneves Neal Stephenson William Morrow Publishing May 19, 2015 The world looks to the skies, stunned, as the moon explodes. Now there’s a race to … Read More
Book Review: The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
The Geek Feminist Revolution, the latest work by Kameron Hurley, is a collection of essays relating to feminism in writing. More specifically, on feminism in the SciFi/Fantasy world. Hurley is … Read More
Book Review: Behave by Andromeda Romano-Lax
Behave is the third book by Andromeda Romano-Lax. It’s a novelization of the experiments of real-life behaviorist psychologist, John Watson, and his second wife Rosalie Raymer Watson, on children, in … Read More
Hugos 2016 Novel Nominations: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Uprooted Naomi Novik Del Rey May 19th, 2015 Agnieszka lived in her tiny village knowing that her best friend Kasia would one day be taken … Read More
Book: Infomocracy (Malka Ann Older)
Infomocracy Malka Ann Older Tor June 7th, 2016 ISBN: 0765385155 (ISBN13: 9780765385154) The world has transitioned to something called ‘micro-democracy’, a system where small geographic areas … Read More
Book: HEX (Thomas Olde Heuvelt)
HEX Thomas Olde Heuvelt Published April 26, 2016 Tom Doherty Associates ISBN: 0765378809 (ISBN13: 9780765378804) Black Spring has been haunted for generations by the Black Rock … Read More
(Book Review) June by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
June is the third novel by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, her first novel, Bittersweet was met with much acclaim, and June looks to be doing the same. June is set spanning sixty … Read More