Kathe Koja’s Dark Matter is the third book in her Dark Factory series and like the first two, reading it feels like stepping into a dream you’re not sure you agreed to have, but suddenly you’re wide awake and completely hooked. This whole series pushes the boundary between what’s real and what’s manufactured with the Read More …
Elita is one of those books that starts out feeling like a quiet little mystery and then suddenly you’re fully obsessed. The book takes place in 1951 in the Pacific Northwest, and follows two women—well, a woman and a girl—who’ve both been abandoned in completely different ways. The story kicks off when two prison guards Read More …
I Who Have Never Known Men is a strange, haunting little book that pulls you in with its mystery. It follows a girl who’s spent her whole life locked underground with a group of women, never knowing why or what the world outside is really like. An event occurs that allows them to escape and Read More …
Eugen Bacon’s Novic is a dark and lyrical story of the journey of a young man figuring out why he is immortal. Bacon’s prose is a character in itself—a poetic and unsettling force that wraps the reader in a haunting atmosphere. This is a background story for Novic, who appears in Bacon’s novel Claiming T-Mo, Read More …
By Carla E. Dash You are commander Shepard, a decorated military officer, Lieutenant Commander of the Systems Alliance frigate SSV Normandy, a new, state-of-the-art stealth ship, and the first human Spectre, an elite group of agents given wide authority to maintain stability in the galaxy through any means necessary by the Citadel Council, a multi-species Read More …
By Kathe Koja No order, except the first is last . . . Here’s some stunning, subtle, brutal, beautifully queer horror fiction from my bookshelf that definitely belongs on yours. Anne Rice—of course my own cherished, falling-apart paperback of Interview with the Vampire is here, but also her historical masterpiece Cry to Heaven: 18th century Read More …
I just finished “Little Heaven” by Nick Cutter, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Talk about a twisted journey into the the deep, dark heart of the wilderness (literally)! The story revolves around a group of three misfit mercenaries who are hired to help a woman check on the welfare of her nephew at a remote religious Read More …
Welcome Ziggy Schutz to the blog! Ziggy’s latest novella, Twice-Spent Comet is out now and it is absolutely beautiful. Such a heartwarming story of found family and romantic love. The structure is so well-done with snippets of an omniscient narrator at the beginning of each chapter introducing elements of the story. There is a big Read More …
I’ve been on a bit of a graphic novel kick lately and this one was so enjoyable. Set in the 80’s, four kickass paper girls run into all kinds of madness and mayhem. Scifi, timetravel, monsters, humor all converge to make this a really fun, fast-paced romp! A real stranger things vibe for sure. I Read More …
Seb Doubinsky’s THE SUM OF ALL THINGS is the latest novella in his City-State Cycle. It is a standalone story set in New Samarqand, one of the various City-States in his series. Since the world-building is such a key aspect of these books, we thought we’d ask Seb which of the City-States is his favorite! Read More …