Darklands, Arnav Das Sharma
India is reeling from an environmental catastrophe, water has replaced oil as the most valuable commodity, and our cities have become nightmarish places infested with … Read more
Category Archives: Science Fiction
The Body Scout, Lincoln Michael
Diamond-sharp and savagely wry, The Body Scout is a timely science fiction thriller debut set in an all-too-possible future, perfect for readers of William Gibson. … Read more
Ark of the Apocalypse, Tobin Marks (Review)
Ark of the Apocalypse by Tobin Marks ISBN: 978-1-63337-237-5 Publisher: Boyle & Dalton Publication date: March 14, 2021 Review by Mary Woodbury Review Tobin Marks’ … Read more
Terminal Boredom: Stories, Izumi Suzuki, et al.
In a future where men are contained in ghettoized isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia – until a boy escapes and … Read more
Something New Under the Sun, Alexandra Kleeman
Set in a darkly unsettling near-future Hollywood, a novelist trying to fix his troubled marriage reckons with connectedness, ambition, and corruption in the age of … Read more
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki
This is the Box Set of Hayao Miyazaki’s epic series. Translated by David Lewis and Toren Smith. The publication date represents that of the boxed … Read more
The Ones We’re Meant to Find, Joan He
In a world apart, 16-year-old STEM prodigy Kasey Mizuhara lives in an eco-city built for people who protected the planet―and now need protecting from it. … Read more
Line, Niall Bourke
An infinite line where people live in tents, with only a few belongings and food rationed, ready to move at the least sign of movement. … Read more
The High House, Jessie Greengrass
The water is rising around a coastal hideaway in which five people, including a small child, are trapped, as civilisation is engulfed by flood. –The Spectator … Read more
Redder Days, Sue Rainsford
…One wonders if there wasn’t something in the air over the past few years that contributed to Redder Days’ sense of foreboding. Certainly, given the … Read more
Termination Shock, Neal Stephenson
The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with a visionary technothriller about climate change. Neal Stephenson’s sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a … Read more
And Lately, The Sun, Calyx et al.
Bushland is burning. The Arctic is shedding ice. And around the world, people are imagining futures which function. Gritty, graceful, commonsense or whimsical, these twenty … Read more
After Australia, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, et al.
Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In … Read more
Road Out of Winter, Alison Stine
Urgent and poignant, Road Out of Winter is a glimpse of an all-too-possible near future, with a chosen family forged in the face of dystopian … Read more