Author Archives
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Five Forthcoming Titles from Vernacular Books!
Five Forthcoming Titles from Vernacular Books!
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Is there such a thing as complete enlightenment? Last Days meets “The Court Magician” by Sarah Pinsker.
(spoilers ahead) This week my journey to read all the award-nominated and award winning short fiction from the last decade led me to Sarah Pinsker’s “The Court Magician”, which originally appeared in Lightspeed and was nominated for a Nebula. Narrated… Read More ›
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Max Brooks’ Devolution Strikes a Balance Between Nature’s Revenge and a Sinking Hope
In the fifties, William Levitt changed the world. Realizing that the surging population wanted a private backyard with a white picket fence, he used quick manufacturing techniques to deliver millions of homes for cheap. In Max Brooks’ Devolution, a billionaire… Read More ›
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Award Nominees Reread: Would “A Year and a Day in Old Theradane” by Scott Lynch make a Good Movie?
Being late to a party doesn’t mean the party isn’t still fun. I stumbled onto Scott Lynch’s novelette while perusing the last decade of Locus and Hugo nominees (2015), and I pounded the table after reading it. This should be considered a modern classic! It’s one of the finest examples of the fantasy novelette genre, and will stay with readers for a long time. Lynch’s gorgeous writing, which created a cinematic experience for me as the reader, got me wondering how someone from Hollywood might evaluate it.
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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 ›