Looking for a good summer read filled with thrills, action, and aliens? Speculative fiction has you covered! Here's a handy guide to this month's best reads in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In this selection, you'll find post-humans, murder on the moon, dragon armies, a murder-free society, alternate histories, and yes…space veterinarians.
End of Watch by Stephen King
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: The infamous Mercedes Killer, though in a coma in the hospital 5 years after he ...
One of the most appealing things about literature is the variety of stories you can find in books. You want to read something sad? There's a book for that. You want to read something that will keep you on the edge of your seat? There's a book for that, too. Something scary? Something thought-provoking? Books have you covered.
What's even more surprising to me as a science fiction fan is that you can get that same kind ...
Where does Hollywood get its ideas? One answer is science fiction, which continues to be a wellspring of ideas for films, as evidenced by this latest roundup of sf book adaptations:
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Illuminae is the first book of a uniquely told trilogy written by the Australian writing team of Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. It takes place in the year 2575 where a faraway mining colony planet is the subject of a war between ...
Captain America: Civil War just hit theaters and it's a critical and financial hit. And why not? People love superheroes. Superhumans fighting super villains and doing who-knows-how-much damage to city streets…what's not to love? If you are one of these true believers, you might like to know that more superhero goodness can be found in the pages of books. Here's a look at some recent and forthcoming superhero fiction books…
Ghosts of Karnak by ...
Bookstore shelves are overflowing with lots of reading choices, but what is a curious reader to do? Here's a tip: use this handy guide to find your next speculative fiction read. This month's selection features a dystopian Egypt, cryogenically frozen humans, a woman who can assume anyone's physical appearance, a girl nobody remembers, and a pandemic of human spontaneous combustion.
Company Town by Madeline Ashby
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: In a world where bioengineering runs rampant ...
Would you read this on the bus?
In past columns, I've discussed the poor public image of science fiction literature. For some reason, it's OK for people to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to watch Jedi fighting Sith Lords on a movie screen but—yikes!—don't get caught reading a Star Wars book on the bus! OK, perhaps that's not as true today as it used to be years ago, but there is a stigma associated with science fiction by casual mainstream readers ...
A quick look at the local or national news broadcast will tell that there is lots of serious stuff going on in the world. Crime, unemployment, inflation, and—scariest of all—a cavalcade of political candidates. (Oh yes, I went there.) Is it any wonder that people seek escape inside movie theaters and the pages of books? Books in particular are my favorite escape. Science fiction and fantasy, my preferred and predominant reading zone, offers innumerable escapes to well-imagined and wondrous worlds ...
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John DeNardo
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April 13, 2016
Lavie Tidhar is an author who treats genre boundaries like smoke. His work, which has been compared to that of Philip K. Dick and Kurt Vonnegut, combines detective and thriller conventions with poetry, science fiction, historical and even autobiographical material. He is the author of the Bookman steampunk series (comprised of 2010's The Bookman, 2011's Camera Obscura, and 2012's The Great Game – all of which are getting reprinted later this year), Osama (2011, winner ...
