This middle grade sci-fi story was recommended to me by a friend interning at Bloomsbury around the time it was published. Knowing my bent for science fiction, he sent the recommendation my way. It took me a while to get to it, partly because I was reading a stack of young adult books at the […]
Why not buy a book because of its cover? No, don’t judge a book by its cover? Total BS. Why not judge the book based on its cover? It is designed for judgement and sales. Book covers exist for a reason. They entice the reader and hint at the story. Most often, cover designers’ stereotypical […]
[Editor’s note: This continues Christina “DZA” Marie’s list of the top ten heroines in literary sci-fi and fantasy. Part One of this series posted yesterday.] Katniss Everdeen, from Hunger Games The second person on this list whose story isn’t named after a guy! (The whole “so many stories are centered around and named after men/boys […]
We’re still in love with Luna Station Quarterly’s Issue 032, which came out December 1. It’s available both digitally and in print, so do check it out when you get a chance. In the meantime, we had the pleasure of talking with E.K. Wagner, author of the sci-fi short story “Running Straight” that appears in […]
Author Tabitha Lord is a woman who wears many hats. Not only is she a science fiction author, but she is also a senior editor for Book Club Babble and working on a non-fiction collection of stories connected with an awareness campaign for children with pediatric cancer. Let me take a moment to introduce myself. […]
Book Name: Glory Season Author: David Brin First Published: 1993 Nominated: Hugo 1994 and Locus 1994 David Brin is an American scientist and writer of hard science fiction novels. His works have been New York Times Bestsellers and he has won multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Campbell awards. Brin was born in Glendale, California. He […]
Book Name: Dreamsnake Author: Vonda N. McIntyre First Published: 1978 Awards: Hugo, Nebula, Locus Vonda N. McIntyre was born in 1948 in Louisville, Kentucky. She moved around a great deal during her childhood finally settling in Seattle, Washington with her family. She earned a bachelor of science in biology at the University of Washington and […]
Book Name: Hyperion Author: Dan Simmons First Published: 1989 Hugo Award for Best Novel 1990 Locus Award Winner 1990 Dan Simmons was born on April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois. He received his B.A in English from Wabash College in 1970 and his Masters in Education from Washington University the following year. He became an […]
Book Name: Solaris Author: Stanislaw Lem First Published: 1961 Stanislaw Lem was born on September 12, 1921 in Lwow, Poland. He was Jewish, but he and his parents were able to survive the Nazi occupation during World War II by using falsified documents. He was raised as a Roman Catholic, but later would turn from […]
I write speculative fiction. Genre fiction. Fantasy. Sci Fi. Horror. I’ve grown ill reading the backs of novels and the thousand and one stories about couples (mostly straight white couples) and their marital problems. I’m sure these stories are brilliantly told, and well deserving of literary praise for depicting the human spirit. But wouldn’t it […]
