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Recent ReviewsCry Murder! In a Small Voice by Greer Gilman 06 December 2013 Cry Murder! In A Small Voice is a jewel of novella. The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar 04 December 2013 Tidhar's new novel, The Violent Century, is his most successful effort yet: a huge and ambitious noir superhero novel that really isn't about superheroes at all. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 02 December 2013 Catching Fire has what one might describe as classic middle film problems, but these are compounded by its failure to expand its world and deepen its story's stakes. 29 November 2013 The axes of biology and intelligence form the warp of the many stories that unfold within Moriarty's Spin series. How the World Became Quiet: Myths of the Past, Present, and Future by Rachel Swirsky 27 November 2013 In How the World Became Quiet, fables, fairytales, and folktales mix with science fiction and slipstream to their mutual enrichment. 25 November 2013 I read the first half of Maddaddam broadly struck by Atwood's many and deep excellences as a writer, and I read the second half broadly dispirited by what seemed to me the novel's manifold sillinesses and fallings-away. The Beautiful Land by Alan Averill 22 November 2013 Alan Averill's The Beautiful Land is a zany first novel of time travel, its over-the-topness kept in check by snappy plotting and the author's sense of humor. The Lowest Heaven, edited by Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin 20 November 2013 The Lowest Heaven is part of an art exhibit dedicated to the interaction between art and the beautiful objects that people make in the pursuit of science. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black 18 November 2013 Black's Cold world is a dangerous one, her vampires just as morally ambiguous, violent and bloodthirsty as they are seductive and beautiful. The Last Man Standing by Davide Longo 15 November 2013 Could The Last Man Standing be the apocalypse that got away? 13 November 2013 This is a novel that defies easy categorization. It is post-dystopian: in a sense, apocalypse recovery as opposed to apocalypse. Its focus on communities, on movements for change, on hope in all its difficulties and triumphs subverts dystopia's pervasive aura of gloom and despair. William Gibson by Gary Westfahl 11 November 2013 The fact that Westfahl's methodology is hilariously retrograde isn't some abstract, theoretical quibble. Westfahl's folksy, conservative Gibson isn't some pleasant fanzine speculation, no matter how much the tone is designed to trick the reader into believing just that; it is an attempt to determine the course of the future of the genre. William Gibson is a political act. View older reviews in our Archive, thanks to the kindness of our authors who allow us to keep their material online. |
