Author Archives
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The Homemade Dystopia
The other day I camped with my son at a remote (to me) State Park in the Maine Highlands, and for several hours in the afternoon, it rained. We read inside our tent while peals of lightning were followed by… Read More ›
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Diani and Devine Meet the Apocalypse is the Feel Good Comedy You Need During the Pandemic.
One of the first memes I saw that made me chuckle after quarantine began was a letter board on the side of the road read: I was told there would be zombies. We all expected a boom, but the world… Read More ›
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Rivers Solomon’s The Deep
This novel’s brilliant premise alone is enough to make it a must read, but I found its poetic language, and fully developed metaphors bordering on allegory, to have a mesmerizing effect as beautiful as a rolling sea.
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Julie C. Day Talks about her story “Speculative Execution” in The Way of the Laser
In our continuing series of mini-interviews, we talk with authors who have a story in our forthcoming collection WAY OF THE LASER: FUTURE CRIME STORIES, recently reviewed positively by ALA Booklist! Today, we talk to Julie C. Day, author of “Speculative Execution”. and… Read More ›
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Extraterrestrials by Wade Roush and Season 1 of Space Force
“Where is everybody?” the great Enrico Fermi asked, exquisitely stating the question that has vexed astronomers for centuries. If we are alone in the universe, where are the other civilizations and societies? In this MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series book,… Read More ›
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Marie Vibbert Talks about “Sister Thrush” from The Way of the Laser and her forthcoming novel, Galactic Hellcats
In our continuing series of mini-interviews, we talk with authors who have a story in our forthcoming collection WAY OF THE LASER: FUTURE CRIME STORIES, recently reviewed positively by ALA Booklist! Today, we talk to Marie Vibbert, author of “Sister Thrush” and a… Read More ›
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The Warped Lens: A Review of Richard Kadrey’s The Getaway God and episode 1 of HBO’s Watchmen
Sometimes, being late to the party is a good thing. Those who know me know the last few months have been a struggle, and that struggle has created a longing for comfort; to return to familiar places and stories long… Read More ›
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In our continuing series of mini-interviews, we talk with authors who have a story in our forthcoming collection WAY OF THE LASER: FUTURE CRIME STORIES, recently reviewed positively by ALA Booklist! Today, we talk to Natania Barron, who has several new titles… Read More ›
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Occult Detective Magazine #6
Sometimes being chased around a graveyard is exactly what you need. Life in lockdown has hit in surprisingly unusual ways for me, affecting what I choose to read and sending life skittering away, the off axis torque of the pandemic… Read More ›
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Galactic Hellcats, a novel by Marie Vibbert, to be released by Vernacular Books in December 2020
Vernacular Books is thrilled to announce Marie Vibbert’s Galactic Hellcats, a novel in which a female biker gang in space must learn to trust each other while rescuing a gay prince from a totalitarian regime on an alien planet, will… Read More ›