It’s hard to say whether the line-up of awesome-sounding science fiction and fantasy debuts scheduled for release over the next few months is a good thing or a bad thing. On one hand: new authors! new stories! new worlds! new heroes to love! new villains to hate! On the other hand: we also have to pay […]
In Ada Palmer’s first novel, Too Like the Lightning, the history professor tells an ambitious story of a future word on the brink of extraordinary change, when the well-ordered structures of society are poised to collapse under their own weight given the introduction of a young boy who represents something wholly new and unexpected. The […]
Who can go to bed when the sun’s up late and there’s so much stuff to read? Books and tweets. Mostly books. But an awful lot of tweets. (Who else was up waaaaaaaaaay too late last night?) once I start a book, I can't stop -never a good idea to start reading at 2am — Alex […]
Sometimes, even fictional characters just need to get some things off their chests—and that’s where the confessional novel comes in. Told in first person past tense, the confessional is usually presented in the form of a fictional document (or a story told to another character) confessing the narrator’s part in something. It could be a […]
