With sharp humor and deep empathy, The Gulf is a memorable debut novel in which Belle Boggs plumbs the troubled waters dividing America. -Goodreads Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Where the River Runs Gold, Sita Brahmachari
Click here to return to the series This month we look at Sita Brahmachari’s novel Where the River Runs Gold (Waterstones, July 2019), which takes place in an everyland, according to the author. But she told me that Meteore mountain–meaning between earth and sky–was inspired by Meteora in Greece and […]
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Dark Constellations, Pola Oloixarac
Argentinian Pola Oloixarac’s novel investigates humanity’s quest for knowledge and control, hurtling from the 19th century mania for scientific classification to present-day mass surveillance and the next steps in human evolution. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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A.S. King’s Me and Marvin Gardens, Review by Kimberly Christensen
Me and Marvin Gardens by A.S. King Middle Grade Fiction Published by Scholastic Trades Review by Kimberly Christensen Everything around twelve-year-old Obe Devlin is changing. New subdivisions keep springing up behind his house on the acres of land that once belonged to the Devlin family. Obe’s former best friend, Tommy, […]
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Remember Tomorrow, Amanda Saint
A dystopian future that echoes the present times. A reflection of society in a stark, unforgiving mirror. Unsettling, honest and unputdownable.” Susmita Bhattacharya, author of The Normal State of Mind “A chilling descent into the chaos that lies in the hearts of men. A searing portrait of a dystopian future […]
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Latitudes of Longing, Shubhangi Swarup
A recent take on the state of writing argues that novelists have been complicit in maintaining silence around global warming and climate change…They have obsessed over everyday life, but overlooked larger units of time and place. In the aftermath of such a critique of the genre of the novel, Shubhangi […]
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Sisyphean, Dempow Torishima
With this stellar debut volume–a “mosaic novel” depicting a world of infinite biomorphic perversity that feels at once surreal yet authentic; estranging yet welcoming; otherwordly yet familiar–Dempow Torishima gives the world a book of fantastika with very few literary precedents. –Paul Di Filippo, Lotus Mag …Frankly, this is in line […]
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Dyschronia, Jennifer Mills
Jennifer Mills’ Dyschronia has climate at its core. In the book, the sea around the small town of Clapstone vanishes. Sam, her main character, has a unique sense of time: she can see into the future, but is she predicting what is going to happen or is she ensuring that […]
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Side Chick Nation, Aya de León
The author takes the story on an interesting journey, exploring colonization, climate change and the US government’s response to Hurricane Maria. Side Chick Nation is an entertaining, insightful, satisfyingly feminist read. –Black Enterprise Fed up with her married Miami boyfriend, savvy Dulce has no problem stealing his drug-dealer stash and fleeing […]
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The Philodendrist Heresy, Interview with Jed Brody
About The Philodendrist Heresey Danielle Gasket’s search for ancestral secrets is imperiled by warring factions that agree about nothing but that Danielle must die. Danielle’s home is a dystopian city beneath the earth’s surface. People have lived underground for so long that knowledge of the surface is preserved only in […]
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The Girl in Red, Christina Henry
Between climate change and the fear of impending war, civilization’s collapse feels closer every day. In her latest novel, The Girl in Red, Christina Henry explores what comes after society falls apart. –Paste Magazine Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Wanderers, Chuck Wendig
This is Wanderers, Chuck Wendig‘s (Star Wars: Aftermath, Blackbirds) epic new novel of a dark future that weaves everything from social media to climate change to artificial intelligence into its complex, multi-viewpoint narrative. –Scyfy Wire Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell
On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the story of a small African nation, told by a swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Oval, Elvia Wilk
Wilk entwines a classical sensibility with biological determinism—she almost suggests that humans have reached the final phase of a natural decomposition process, like cells programmed to grow and then atrophy. –The New Yorker In the near future, Berlin’s real estate is being flipped in the name of “sustainability,” only to […]
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Wilderness Wars, Barbara Henderson
Wilderness Wars slow-builds menace from its nail-biting opening to its stunning apocalyptic climax. This is a golden eagle of a book—it grabs you in its talons and won’t let go. A thought-provoking and often frightening study of what happens when you mess with Nature and Nature decides to fight back. […]
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