Advertisements for My Sci-Fi Self
Ariel Waldman’s book ‘Out There’ feels like a commercial for her YouTube channel
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Author: Dan Friedman
Perfect Enough
Temi Oh’s YA sci-fi novel ‘More Perfect’ imagines a universal hive mind
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Middle Novel Syndrome
Daniel Abraham’s follow-up to ‘Age of Ash’ doesn’t justify a trilogy
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Lost In Translation
Ann Leckie’s aliens are at once very strange and very familiar
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Who Doesn’t Love a Demon Prince?
Martha Wells moves away from Murderbots and back to fantasy with ‘Witch King’
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Somewhere Over the Robot Rainbow
After an apocalypse, TJ Klune’s mechanical heroes go searching for meaning in ‘In The Lives Of Puppets’
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After the AI Apocalypse
The re-release of Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel, ‘Veniss Underground,’ comes at a strangely appropriate time
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A Glorious Romp in Ye Olde Arabian Seas
‘The Adventures Of Amina Al-Sirafi’ by Shannon Chakraborty
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So Far Away, So Close
In Annalee Newitz’s sci-fi novel ‘The Terraformers,’ familiar problems emerge on a distant rock in the far distant future
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Critical Mess
Provocative science can’t rescue clunky sci-fi novel by Daniel Suarez
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I Remember Aliens
Robert Silverberg’s science fiction, now reissued, didn’t get everything right. But he was on point about how we might react to alien encounters.
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Mis-Brand Nubia
Actor Omar Epps creates a YA Afro-futurist world that’s basically an OK comic book without art
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Like ‘Sand’ Through The Hourglass
Why did it take Hugh Howey so long to write a sequel to ‘Sand’?
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A Hot, Fun Gothic Mess
Sunyi Dean’s wild genre mashup, ‘The Book Eaters’
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