Lila Prime

Ray Nayler 's novella The Tusks of Extinction follows the consciousness of a scientist fighting elephant poaching, in her life before a...

I adored Maria Dahvana Headley 's Beowulf  and was curious to read her earlier novel, The Mere Wife , which draws on the story of Beowul...

Nicola Griffith's Spear is a short, fascinating novella that retells a side quest legend in the Arthurian constellation of stories and c...

If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe is a fantasy (?) horror (?) comedy novel by Jason Pargin , who also wrote John Dies a...

Susanna Clarke 's Piranesi is a novel in the form of a series of journal entries; the character who is writing is, by turns, unreliable...

Empress of Forever is Max Gladstone 's doorstop-sized foray into science fiction. It tells the story of Vivian Lao, a tech CEO/brillian...

The Nightmare Stacks is the seventh  book in Charles Stross' The Laundry Files series (previously: 1 2 3 4 4.5 5 6). It is the second b...

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler was recommended to my by some friends who said it was good and that they didn...

Claire North's trilogy of novellas The Serpent , The Thief , and The Master , all focus on a mythical "Gameshouse", a gambling...

The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey was my readerly attempt at palate-cleansing, or at least palate-overwriting, after Gone Girl . T...

Kai Ashante Wilson's  A Taste of Honey  is one of the  2017 Hugo nominees  (for novella). It tells the story of minor noble Aqib, who li...

Ada Palmer 's Too Like the Lightning  takes place in the future, a 25th century whose views of our modern day are as colored by weird h...

The nominees for Hugo Awards have been announced . It's yet another interesting sociological study in gaming voting systems. The number ...

Nnedi Okorafor 's The Book of Phoenix fits the mold of her previous writing ( Binti , Lagoon ) for me: it is vaguely science-fiction/fa...

Seth Dickinson 's The Traitor Baru Cormorant  tells the story of Baru Cormorant, a child of an island nation which is absorbed, subsumed...

Peter Watts ' Echopraxia is not so much a sequel to Blindsight as a sequentially-timed companion piece. The characters and locations ar...

Claire North is an author and, I think, should be a legally controlled substance. The novel  Touch is all-encompassingly good. Don't pi...

Living in Europe is living in exotic lands , which oscillate between the boring quotidian and the fascinatingly foreign. Markets in the str...

Neal Stephenson 's Anathem is my least favorite of his books. This is high praise, of course, as his Cryptonomicon is my favorite book...

The streets of Paris were quiet today, and fairly empty. I think people stayed in, or stayed out of the city. It was one of those surreal af...