The Sons of Heaven by Kage Baker
Jo Niederhoff
Whew. Eight books and several hundred years later (or several hundred thousand years, depending on whether you’re counting from the Spanish Inquisition or Options Research and Back Way Back… time…
science fiction
The Machine’s Child by Kage Baker
I have some very mixed feelings about The Machine’s Child. On the one hand, I think I will always love Kage Baker’s work. The future she paints is intricate and…
E. J. Swift Interview – Paris Adrift
Jonathan Thornton
E. J. Swift is the author of the Osiris Project trilogy, whose three novels Osiris (2012) Cataviero (2013) and Tamaruq (2015) explore a world transfigured by climate change, in a…
Scylla and Charybdis by Lindsey Duncan
Jessica Juby
We’re shot into the future. Life has taken an unexpected turn of events. Our space explorations have not gone as planned. As the human race has spread beyond Earth, we’ve…
Annihilation – Movie Review
A. M. Justice
Spoiler Warning: This review contains minor spoilers for the movie Annihilation. Please read with caution if you have yet to see the movie. You can find our review of the…
Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
R. S. McCoy
People acquire books in all kinds of ways. Book boxes mail out a semi-random selection. Friends and relatives gift books we may or may not really enjoy. In this case,…
The Children of the Company by Kage Baker
Oh. My. God. Those are just about the only words I can think to describe my reaction to reading The Children of the Company. While I don’t know that I’d…
Fonda Lee Interview – Jade City
JC Kang
Today we have a real treat for you! Fonda Lee, author of the Nebula nominated Jade City, is here to speak with us! If you’ve not read Jade City you…
Paris Adrift by E. J. Swift
“I always imagined that it was possible to cast off those elements of myself that I disliked or did not want. I had come to Paris cleansed; in my wake…
Year in Anime – 2017
Rakib Ahmad Khan
My interest in anime has been rather lacking since 2013. Despite occasionally re-watching classics or catching up on stuff that I missed, I actually thought anime had become rather repetitive…
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
Eric Christensen
Looking at the list of genres above, it’s clear that I had difficulties categorizing Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne. But I suppose that is what the New Weird is all about. Although…
Monthly Short Stories Winner: Water
Xiagan
This month we asked for stories, where water of any kind was a key element. It didn’t matter if it was a stormy sea, a misty lake, a polluted river,…