Whether you’re pacing yourself with the HBO series or are eagerly chomping at the bit waiting for The Winds of Winter (come on George, write like the wind!) there are plenty of other wonderful fantasy series which feature the same kind of grit and maturity as George R. R. Martin’s […]
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What do the National Book award, the Locus award, the Hugo award, The Nebula award, the World Fantasy award, and the PEN/Malamud award have in common? All of them (some multiple times) have been awarded to the fiction of author Ursula K. Le Guin. From fantasy and science fiction to […]
View in Catalog Read Sample Chapter What is it? Hugo Award winner Robert Charles Wilson (Spin) returns with Burning Paradise a near-future thriller set in a world just a bit different from our own.
What is it? Parasite , is a science-fiction/horror novel by Mira Grant (the Newsflesh trilogy). What’s it about? SymboGen has pioneered a genetically engineered tapeworm that bolsters the human immune system. Nearly everyone has one. When Sally Mitchell’s gets into a fatal accident (that isn’t an typo, she is brain dead) her […]
It might be a bit strange to write a book focusing on a question without an answer but that is precisely what author Lee Billings has done with his new book Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars. Billings, who spent several years researching the […]
This week’s book is Dan Simmons’ The Abominable. The novel, inspired by a story told to the author during his research for 2007’s The Terror, takes place in 1924 as intrepid explorers have begun the race to scale Mt. Everest has been stymied by the mysterious disappearance of two climbers. […]