By Kate Atkinson Back Bay Books, ISBN: 978-0316176491 Paperback, ©2013, 560 pages On February 11, 2010, a young girl is born to a wealthy English family. Due to a snowstorm and blocked roads, the doctor cannot arrive in time, and the child dies. On February 11, 2010, a young girl named Ursula is born to…
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The Girl on the Train
By Paula Hawkins The Penguin Group, ISBN: 9780698185395 Paperback, ©2015, 416 pages Rachel’s teetering on the edge. Alcoholism and bitterness over her failed marriage nudges her closer every day to total loss of what little she has left. Her only bright spot is the daily commute to London where her train stops at a faulty…
Red Moon
by Benjamin Percy Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 978-1455501670 Mass Market Paperback, © 2013, 668 pages They live among us. They might be our neighbor, our pastor, our doctor, our teacher, our spouse, our child. Most of the time, they look like us—except when they don’t. Except when stress or anger or fear incites the prion…
Native Seeds
by Catherine Wells Novella, 19,132 Words Published in the November 2017 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact Edited by Trevor Quachri After the Food Wars and a series of global storms and other cataclysms force the evacuation of Earth, two small bands of survivors remain behind. The Men on the Mountain depend on left-over…
The Faraway Nearby
By Rebecca Solnit Penguin Books, © 2014 ISBN 978-0143125495, 272 pages Like I said before, I don’t usually read memoirs. At least, I haven’t in the past. This is my second one this month, and I have to say I may be changing my mind. Though I have to say that this isn’t exactly a…
Bumbling Into Body Hair
By Everett Maroon First Ed. Booktrope, © 2012, ISBN 9781935961338, 250 pages Second Ed. Smashwords, © 2016, ISBN 9781370241484 I don’t usually read memoirs, as a rule. I never thought they would interest me. I was wrong. Bumbling Into Body Hair is a story of the author’s transition from Jenifer to Everett, and all the…
The Traitor’s Kiss
(Traitor’s Trilogy, Book 1) by Erin Beaty Imprint, ©2017 ISBN 978-1-250-11794-6 Hardback, 352 pages Sixteen-year-old Sage Fowler would rather live off the land than submit to a traditional arranged marriage, despite her uncle’s wishes. After she is apprenticed as an assistant—and part-time spy—to the head matchmaker, the two of them set out across Demora with…
The Stone Sky
By N. K. Jemisin Orbit, ©2017 ISBN: 987-0316229241 Paperback, 464 pages A change is coming. Whether for better or for worse, Essun cannot tell, but she has a plan to nudge astronomical events toward the side of humanity’s survival. She knows what it will mean for her, but no price is too great to pay….
The Obelisk Gate
By N. K. Jemisin Orbit, ©2016 ISBN: 978-0316229265 Paperback, 448 pages Essun never thought she’d want to settle anywhere for long. But Castrima sits like a jewel, deep underground, replete with air, lights, water, food, and a comm full of survivors in a land where the comless don’t survive a Season. Essun begins to think…
The Fifth Season
By N. K. Jemisin Orbit, ©2015 ISBN: 987-0316229296 Paperback, 512 pages In the Stillness, a land riddled with shakes and blows and hotspots, Father Earth never forgets his hatred for humans. Here, the world ends over and over in periodic Fifth Seasons, winters triggered by seismic events whose effects linger for months, years, even decades….