Terrestrial History, by Joe Mungo Reed, caught my eye with its heavy title and stark cover art. Its premise was just as intriguing, promising time travel and four generations within the same family as they dealt with climate change and the colonization of Mars. And while there are some really exciting ideas at play within…
Continue reading ➞ Terrestrial History – Best Left to the Nerds
Ever since their debut novel, Leech, I’ve been eagerly awaiting Hiron Ennes next novel. As you may already know, The Works of Vermin fell into our top ten best of 2025 and for many very good reasons. The city of Tilliard is on the precipice. Its elite, though powerful, is facing stagnancy and rebellion. Its…
Continue reading ➞ The Works of Vermin – Producing Greatness
I know I’m the resident sour puss of the blog, but even I can have some fun sometimes. I have made it known that science fiction and horror is one of my favorite genre combinations, and with that comes a sweet tooth whenever something different (and let’s be honest, something retreading well-worn ground) pops on…
Continue reading ➞ Of Monsters and Mainframes – Werewolves, Vampires, and Mummies Oh My!
In an effort to catch up on some of the new releases, I wanted to focus on books that seemed to place climate change front and center. One of these is Thomas R. Weaver’s debut Artificial Wisdom. Unfortunately, while it does ask some interesting questions in latter parts of the book, the build up left…
I’ll be the first to admit when I am wrong about something. For the longest time, I avoided The Sun Eater series because of its seemingly derivative nature. I continued my plunge into the series by picking up Demon in White by Christopher Ruocchio. I naively expected that I might buy in at this juncture,…
Continue reading ➞ Demon In White – A Reviewer Goes Down to Vorgossos
For QTL’s first summer book club, I chose a book I had not yet read, because I really wanted to expose the rest of the reviewers (besides Andrew of course) to some harder science fiction. Now, in my opinion, hard science fiction is a pretty loaded term, but I think it does a decent job…
Last year, I took it upon myself to finally read T. H. White’s The Once and Future King. I had been seeing an uptick in Arthurian stories and my only real exposure to the tale have been insane, but lackluster visions from the silver screen like Excalibur (1981) and King Arthur (2004). Since then, while…
My ship continues onward to that farthest star, understanding the generation ship genre. My next stop for the resources that would help me along the journey is Emily Devenport’s Medusa Uploaded. Oichi is flushed out an airlock on suspicion of being an insurgent. She manages to survive the initial moments through her tenacity and awareness.…
A couple of years ago, a member of QTL gifted me this novel. It had been on my to-read list for a long time, back when I thought a regular, non-scholarly book reviewer could conjure together a deep dive into the various iterations on Frankenstein into an interesting side project. But after years of it…
Ever since The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler has been a writer to watch for me. Like some monster out of the cosmos, he has several eyes looking in several directions at once. His stories often explore the relationships between consciousness, intelligence, governance, and power that call to me like a rock opera composed…
Continue reading ➞ Where The Axe Is Buried – I Think I Lost It
