Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
★★★★☆ In the vast world of science fiction, there is a frequent and frequently unfair desire to contextualize an individual work with comparables within its own genre. Unique voices are met with resistance, their...
Category: Science Fiction
Normal by Warren Ellis
★★★☆☆ To borrow a quote from one of the side characters in his new book Normal, Warren Ellis “kind of invented the modern end of the world.” His stories often journey into the dark corners...
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
★★☆☆☆ It’s the year 2020, and the melting of the polar icecaps has finally caused incontrovertible damage. “All that fresh water is flooding the oceans, reducing salinity,” which in turn increases the potential for...
Zer0es by Chuck Wendig
★★★☆☆ Imagine if the Avengers weren’t superheroes, but hackers. That’s just what you get with Zer0es, a high intensity, freaked out, sci fi thriller. Five disparate techno-wizards are selected, each with a unique skill...
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
★☆☆☆☆ Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last is a rambling wastelands-and-corporations dystopian novel that catatonically strips into a fragmented, forced story about sexuality and 21st-century kink. When we first meet our protagonists, the young...
Time Salvager by Wesley Chu
Wesley Chu’s Time Salvager is a rapid-fire thriller set in a dystopic future defined by rust, decay, and absolute corporate hegemony. It’s the 26th century, and mankind has finally done it. We’ve finally rendered...
Armada by Ernest Cline
Ernest Cline’s debut novel, Ready Player One, was a kaleidoscopic smorgasbord of 1980s pop culture slammed into the virtual world of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that existed in Cline’s nightmarish, post-apocalyptic...
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Seveneves begins with a bang – literally. Neal Stephenson minces no words in the first sentence of his new novel: “The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.” One minute the...
