I'm a writer of tech articles and science fiction / fantasy, and a lover of all types of speculative fiction, 19th century literature, and whatever interesting books I can get my hands on.
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To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world.
It's where he was born. It's where he …
I read this after seeing the film, and thought it was an excellent book. While I usually prefer to read a book before I see the film, in this case, I thought the film was enhanced by the book's detail, and neither suffered in the comparison.
This is a well written and compelling re-imagining of two historical events: the radiation poisoning of workers in a warch factory, and the killing of a caprive elephant. The voices of the protagonists are believable and haunting.
Dominion is a 2012 alternate history novel by British author C. J. Sansom. It is a political thriller set in …
The Black Tides of Heaven is one of a pair of standalone introductions to JY Yang's Tensorate Series. For more …
A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of …
This is what is sometimes called a "mosaic novel" -- a novel made up of short stories that have been tweaked to relate to each other. The stories are masterfully written and the connections between them work well; I enjoyed this thoroughly. The ending felt a bit unfinished to me, but that is also understandable -- unlike many more traditional novels, the lives of the characters don't necessarily reach culmination (there is no "lived happily ever after"), but most reach a place where their lives have changed -- so it is, in a way, more realistic.
In short, it's a beautifully penned series of stories. I recommend it.
During the political upheaval of Tudor-era England, the lawyer Matthew Shardlake must decide where his loyalties lie in "one of …
An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo …
