Wild Mountain Series, Clara Hume
This was a wonderful debut novel. Ms. Hume handles numerous POV characters with great skill and uses them to great advantage; she weaves a tail … Read more
Category Archives: Speculative
Cold, Jim Pearce
The near future is a world in which scientists and their AI got it wrong. Rising temperatures have caused fires that burned landmasses, and the … Read more
Tipping Point/Counterpoint, Michelle Cook
From Crooked Cat & Darkstroke Books: Tipping Point What would you risk to turn back the tide? Essie Glass might have been a typical eighteen-year-old—had … Read more
The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Naylor
Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. … Read more
Cascade, Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen’s debut novel, Cascade, has been described as magic realism, climate fantasy and, as its publisher prefers, fantasy that feels like science fiction. … Read more
Denial, Jon Raymond
A futuristic thriller about climate change by the acclaimed screenwriter of First Cow, Meek’s Cutoff, and HBO’s Mildred Pierce. Denial is both a page-turning speculative … Read more
The Moonday Letters, Emmi Itäranta
A gripping sci-fi mystery wrapped in an LGBTQIA love story that bends space, time, myth and science…An effortlessly rich and lyrical mystery wrapped in a … Read more
Thrust, Lydia Yuknavitch
As rising waters–and an encroaching police state–endanger her life and family, a girl with the gifts of a carrier travels through water and time to … Read more
Indie Corner – Aleksandar Nedeljkovic
Back to the Indie Corner series I’m happy to reboot our Indie Corner this month with a spotlight on Aleksandar Nedeljkovic and his novel ALT … Read more
The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, Octavia Cade
A chilling novella about extinction, grief, and what we hold onto when the world falls apart. With the collapse of ecosystems and the extinction of … Read more
Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada
Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former … Read more
After the Dragons, Cynthia Zhang
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but … Read more
Terraform, Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans
I just read about this upcoming anthology from one of its author’s, Jeff VanderMeer’s twitter feed. It’s coming from MCD Books in August 2022 and … Read more
The Unfamiliar Garden, Benjamin Percy
The Unfamiliar Garden is a science fiction horror novel that features fungi (also a new category in our database)!
Read moreHow High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu
“Wondrous, and not just in the feats of imagination, which are so numerous it makes me dizzy to recall them, but also in the humanity … Read more