Eradication: A Fable by Jonathan Miles. Doubleday, 2026. 980385551915. 159pp. Adi, a teacher, takes a strange job. He’ll live on a remote island trying to save its plants and animals by killing as many of the invasive goats that are […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Absolute Martian Manhunter Volume 1: Martian Vision by Deniz Camp (writer) and Javer RodrÃguez (art)
Absolute Martian Manhunter Volume 1: Martian Vision by Deniz Camp (writer) and Javer RodrÃguez (art). DC, 2025. 9781799505204. Contains #1 – 6. This reinterpretation of DC’s Martian Manhunter for its new Absolute universe is worth reading whether you’re familiar with […]
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Graphic Nonfiction Review: Ultra Wild: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth by Steve Mushin
Ultra Wild: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth by Steve Mushin. Graphic Universe, 2025. 9798765647073. 91pp. This is inventor Steve Mushin’s nonfiction graphic novel of ideas for saving the world from climate change. At its heart is […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Out Of Alcatraz by Christopher Cantwell and Tyler Crook
Out Of Alcatraz by Christopher Cantwell and Tyler Crook. Oni-Lion Forge, 2025. 9781637158685. 176pp. Contains issues #1 – 5. Includes a cover gallery. Four convicts planned their escape. Only two make it off the island (or so the survivors think). […]
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Book Review: Just One Damned Thing After Another (Chronicles of St. Mary’s Book 1) by Jodi Taylor
Just One Damned Thing After Another (Chronicles of St. Mary’s Book 1) by Jodi Taylor. Night Shade, 2016. 9781597808682. 348pp. My friend Karen sent me this time-travel novel, and it was delightful! It’s a quick, non-technical sort of science fiction […]
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Book Review: Radiant Star by Ann Leckie
Radiant Star by Ann Leckie. Orbit, 2026. 978-0316290357. 336pp. I love Leckie’s books set in the Imperial Radch universe. They scratch the itch in my brain for Le Guin’s worldbuilding and, in some ways, the everyday weirdness of Philip K. […]
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Comic Collection Review: Forces of Nature: A Book Of Drawings by Edward Steed
Forces of Nature: A Book Of Drawings by Edward Steed. Drawn and Quarterly, 2024. 9781770466982. 184pp. I’m not sure I’ve ever done this, but I take issue with the subtitle. This is a book of single-panel comics! They’re drawings, sure, […]
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Book Review: The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan Book 1) by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan Book 1) by Robert Jackson Bennett. Del Rey, 2024. 978-1984820716. 432pp. The book opens with a gruesome death. It turns out to be a murder, which leads to the discovery of what is […]
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Novella Review: The Dragonfly Gambit by A.D. Sui
The Dragonfly Gambit by A.D. Sui. Neon Hemlock, 2024. 9781952086793. 134pp. Inez should have been the greatest pilot of the Rule. But she was severely injured and discharged from service; her co-pilot (and now former lover) Kaya became the empire’s […]
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Novella Review: Outside The Gates by Molly Gloss
Outside The Gates by Molly Gloss. Saga Press, 2019. 9781534414976. 128pp. “The best first novel I’ve seen in years.” — Ursula K. Le Guin I came across a copy of this novella in a bookstore and had to it when […]
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