In Memoriam – Gene Wolfe
Science fiction grandmaster Gene Wolfe passed away on Sunday, April 14, 2019. Obituaries and other articles are quick to point …
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Unholy Land – Lavie Tidhar
Mystery writer Lior Tirosh is sucked into a mystery rivaling one of his own creations when he returns to his homeland Palestina, a Jewish homeland in East Africa.
Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1
Do you ever read something and go “I don’t know what the hell that was, but I liked it?” That …
Through Darkest America – Neal Barrett Jr.
Howie Ryder’s pastoral childhood is torn from him as a brutal civil war comes home, sending him on a trek across the post-apocalyptic wilderness of Darkest America.
In Memoriam – Harlan Ellison
A week ago today, Harlan Ellison passed away at the age of 84. The author had suffered a stroke and …
Copperhead, Vol. 2
Space western with a new sheriff in town! After the interesting if uneventful first volume introduces the main characters, things …
Copperhead, Vol. 1
After seeing the high praise from Robert Kirkman and Brian K. Vaughn, I was really expecting this one to wow …
Cryptozoic! – Brian Aldiss
Pulled from the forests of the Jurassic as an artist, called back to a totalitarian dystopia, trained to kill, and sent back into the past—Eddie Bush has become an unlikely assassin with an unpredictable future.
Bitch Planet, Vol. 1
“In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman’s failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords will result in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy.”
Bring the Jubilee – Ward Moore
An alternate history that posits a Southern victory in the American Civil War, leading to a reconstructed North living in the shadow of a Southern empire.
“Lot” and “Lot’s Daughter” – Ward Moore
In the aftermath of nuclear war, a man named Jimmon sees all his built-up middle-class resentment explode in civilization’s twilight. Yet Jimmon reaps what he sows…
