Continuing my quest into the deep reaches of space, I stumbled across this next book deep in a Reddit thread. Marrow, by Robert Reed, is the beginning of what I assume to be a strange journey into the hell that is the infinite cosmos. I mean this with love and respect, as I adored this…
Last year I gave in to my baser instincts and started to pick up more generation ship books. It has always been a subgenre of interest, whether it's a book or a TV show (yeah, I watched Ascension, judge all you want). The nature of the journey is a siren song paired with the rocks…
Continue reading ➞ The First Generation – Launch Day for the Generation Ship
I picked up We Lived on the Horizon, by Erika Swyler, because it tries to imagine a place designed to survive cataclysm. The book is an examination of utopia that falls short in many ways while offering an incredible look at an artificial consciousness inhabiting a human-shaped body. The city of Bulwark seems to stand…
Continue reading ➞ We Lived on The Horizon – Build It and We Will Leave
If 2024 was my year of diving into whatever the hell I wanted, 2025 is the year I become completely unhinged about climate change in fiction. Having grown up in the late nineties and early 2000s, I thought maybe, just maybe, the governments of the world would figure this shit out. But instead, we’re being…
Continue reading ➞ All The Water In The World – The Levees Will Break
Artificial intelligence has been a mainstay within science fiction since the genre’s inception. We all know the various tales of robots, their human creators, and the inevitable rebellions that are mustered forth, just or unjust. The large language models and generative AI that are dominating the cultural discussion and banging on the doors of our…
Continue reading ➞ Mechanize My Hands To War – Forever Unto The Breach
For a while now, I've been stewing on a project—a deep dive into post-apocalyptic sci-fi futures. The categories I am diving into will be pretty broad, but let this next review give you a sneak peek at what I have been thinking about in these concerning times. The Ancients, by John Larison, is a meditation…
This year I have read a lot of books that feature revolutions. Adrian Tchaikovsky is no slouch when it comes to exploring this topic, but delivers a bigger punch than usual with his latest, Alien Clay. I immediately latched onto its premise, seeing it as a spiritual successor to Cage of Souls, a book that…
A little while ago I read Africa Risen, a collection of short stories featuring authors from Africa focusing on the African Diaspora. It was a wonderful collection with a few authors I wanted to keep track of. One of whom was Tlotlo Tsmaase, who wrote a story called “Peeling Time (Deluxe Edition).” So when I…
This October, I had to get at least one space horror book on my schedule, as the pickings have been a little slim through the rest of the year. Luckily, Kemi Ashing-Giwa has a horror novella just in time for the spooky season. This World Is Not Yours is a queer, climate-adjacent horror story about…
Searching the internet to find older science fiction these days is tough. Endless lists with the same books, Goodreads constantly in a state of disrepair, and endless highly specific threads on Reddit make the search feel futile. I honestly don’t even know how I stumbled upon this book, but however I did, I’m glad I…
Continue reading ➞ This Alien Shore – A Most Engaging Cruise Through The Stars
