Speculative Fiction That Asks Big Questions
A Middle Falls Time Travel Story By Shawn Inmon © 2016, Pertime Publishing ASIN: B01J8FBONO Kindle version; file size 1241 KB Forty years after his brother’s death, Thomas Weaver can’t escape his guilt. Still living with his mother and paying the bills by working as a used car salesman, his best friend is a bottle….
By Kathy Brandon Illustrated by Jennifer Kasitz © 2023, Munn Avenue Press ASIN: B0BVN1V9NV Kindle version; file size 7818 KB I don’t recall reviewing a children’s book before. But The Adventures of Nonna and the Little Red Truck in Summertime was a great first selection. In this fun story, we see through the eyes of…
By Christopher Paolini © 2020, Tor Books ASIN: B081D7ZSTL Kindle version; file size 19201 KB Xenobiologist Kira Navárez knows the rules. She knows why they are in place. When you discover an alien site, don’t disturb it. More importantly, don’t touch anything. So when she literally falls into a forgotten alien reliquary while searching for…
By Casie Aufenthie © 2021, Independently Published ASIN: B08YKCW6RM Kindle version; file size 777 KB In a future where humanity has divided through evolution, war has devastated not only the surface of the Earth, but all traces of civilization outside those areas controlled by the Illuminatos, most evolved of the species. Seven Illuminatos rule the…
By Richard Powers © 2021, W.W.Norton & Company ASIN: B08X19W2HD Ebook File Size: 3245 KB Following the death of his wife, astrobiologist Theo Byrne is raising their son Robin alone. Robin is smart, warm, deep, and in love with Nature, especially endangered animals. But Robin is also deeply troubled, and about to be expelled from…
By Graham Joyce © 2013, Black Dust Creations Ltd ASIN: B00F66Q8TK Kindle version; file size 1104 KB In every way that matters, Fern Cullen is daughter to Mammy Cullen, who sees to the needs of village women in rural England around 1960. It’s Mammy who helps them regulate their bleeds. Mammy who blesses the wedding…
By V.E. Schwab © 2020, Tor Books 978-0765387561 Hardcover; 448 pages Adeline LaRue’s biggest fear is living a life of drudgery, like her mother’s and every other person in the tiny French village where she has grown up. On the night of her wedding in 1714, before they can compel her to make her vows,…
By Barbara Kingsolver © 2009, HarperCollins ASIN: B000QTE9WU Kindle Edition; File size 2370 KB When Orleanna’s fiery Baptist husband, Nathan Price, takes her and their four daughters to the Belgian Congo on a mission trip in 1959, none of them can foresee the tragic consequences of his ill-fated decision. The nation is already poised on…
By Carmen Baca ASIN: B0BM3PFKRJ Paperback, 233 pages, © 2022 Fourteen-year-old Bella is bored. A visit to her grandmother’s ranch in New Mexico leaves her with nothing to do in the evenings, so she climbs into the abandoned attic in search of a book. Instead, she falls into a photograph in an old album. She’s…
By Adrian Tchaikovsky © 2019, Ebook format ASIN: B07DPRW17S File size 1865 KB It’s easy to see why this book was shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award. This is an intricate story, part fictional memoir, part dark dystopian ecofiction with touches of horror. There were elements of the tale that read like a…