I haven’t had the chance to check out Tender Is The Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica’s international hit, so I figured I would treat myself with her latest outing. The Unworthy is a nightmarish fever dream in which one woman chronicles her time with a cloister of women in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by climate change. The…
Continue reading ➞ The Unworthy – Bask In The Light Of The Holy
Folks, serendipity has shined its beautiful face upon me. I rarely read several books so closely together that tackle themes that resonate strongly with me, while each successive work expands on them in different ways. If you don’t follow my work in particular, I urge you to take a look at The Dark Beyond The…
Continue reading ➞ Venomous Lumpsucker – A Sobering Draught of Dystopic Essence
Let's talk about one of my favorite lesser-known subgenres, Eco-Fantasy (short for ecology fantasy). Right off the bat, I want to mention I am playing hard and loose with genre definitions here, and Eco-Fantasy in my mind is less strict definitions and more vibes. Generally, Eco-Fantasy is about fantasy worlds with strong scientific foundations and,…
Continue reading ➞ Eco-Fantasy – Magic Can’t Solve Everything
The Phoenix is eleven years into its journey to Planet X, a planet deemed habitable for human life. A bomb goes off, killing three members of the crew, including its captain. Asuka is the lone surviving witness, and in some folks’ eyes, the prime suspect. She was the last picked for the 80 person mission,…
Record heat waves are starting to rear their ugly heads. Food shortages, through a combination of war, finance and climate change are featured news on the daily. It’s easy to retreat from a world on the brink and cozy up with a book…about climate change. But rarely does our climate science fiction feel more than…
Continue reading ➞ A Half-Built Garden – Forget The Pesticides
I am already inclined to focus on climate and man vs. nature in stories, but this year I’m really feeling the pull. So, let's just casually review this next book that deals with the impending doom the news is talking about so much more often these days. Of course, when I say casually, I mean…
Alright, I am finally ready to tackle a "review" on The Interdependency trilogy by John Scalzi. As much as I’ve wanted to review these books on their own, I feel the best approach to talking about these novels is at a series level. When I tried writing about them individually, I wanted to focus on…
Continue reading ➞ The Interdependency – Interdependent Habitats, Planetary Dependent
