Perchance to Dream: 15 SFF Books About Sleep
I am not a Hemmingway fan but I have to appreciate his comment on sleep: “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” This feels extremely…
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Category: Reviews
The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Huehlman Review – Black Tongue, Gold Heart
How Kinch, our narrator, tells the story makes this novel so exceptional. It’s as if you’ve run into the thief at a tavern in this world, after the events of a series, and become…
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built Review: Find the Strength to Do Both
A Psalm for the Wild-Built, the new novella from Becky Chambers, though obviously brief, is a complete meal: it has the rich depth of philosophical reflection, the acid brightness of humor, and the unfamiliar…
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Star Eater Review: This Book Will Devour You
I was on page 27 when I realized I didn’t want this book to end. That’s early even for a particularly great book, and this is truly a particularly great book. From the very…
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Inks & Issues #103 – Dryad
Parenting is tough even in the best of times. When the cyberpunk distopia you've been escaping for the last thirteen years suddenly shows up on your door, you might start to wonder how far…
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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke Review: Gorgeous Gore
Is it weird to call a horror novel charming? Because Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is definitely charming. Disturbing, upsetting, and frightening yes, but it just starts out so endearingly, with…
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Wolf and the Woodsman Review: We’re All Stories in the End
How important is a story to you? Important enough to hear? What about important enough to learn, so that you can tell it again? Is it important enough to preserve—important enough to write down,…
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The Shadow of the Gods Review: Brutal But Fun
When gods go to war, it is no small thing. The Shadows of Gods by John Gwynne is a Scandanavian-inspired grim and dark book that nevertheless avoids the common pitfalls that come with the…
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Hard Reboot Review: Queer Mecha Coders Fight the Power
Zychtykas Three—Kas—is a broke mecha scholar from offworld. Zhi is a broke mecha fighter and also a broken mech fighter, using whatever she can scrape together to enhance an antique model for modern pit…
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The House of Always Review: Love and Friendship in Chaos
The series, A Chorus of Dragons by Jenn Lyons, since its first book The Ruin of Kings, released in 2019, has quickly become the series I look forward to the most. The fourth book,…
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