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★★★★☆ Earlier this year, Jeff VanderMeer published Borne, a terrifically surreal book of dystopian sci-fi zoology. Following the success of his 2014 “Southern Reach” trilogy (the first volume of which is currently being adapted...
★★★★☆ 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...
★★★☆☆ 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...
★★☆☆☆ 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...
★★★☆☆ 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...
★☆☆☆☆ 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...
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...
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 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...
