Bring me all the speculative fiction. Whose stories have I been missing out on?
Rating system calibration:
1 star - not worth reading 2 stars - worth reading, but has major problems 3 stars - satisfying read, may have minor problems. Most books live here. 4 stars - inspiring read, overshadows any issues 5 stars - life-changing read
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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that …
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. …
In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. But he has …
The Mars House (2024, Bloomsbury Publishing USA)
From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee and a Mars …
I so wanted this to be a Dresden-like but the narrator is too much of a stuffed shirt, somehow has no self awareness despite constantly talking about himself, and seems to share his misogynistic worldview with the author. There’s too much of that already in the real world, thanks
"World War Z meets The Martian in the explosive follow-up to Sleeping Giants ("One of the most promising series kickoffs …
"World War Z meets The Martian in the explosive follow-up to Sleeping Giants ("One of …
Oh hello conlang
Insecure college senior Orion loves music, books, and his best friend Niko. When the two of them find a secret …
A lovely mutual-pining gay romance set in the late 50s. Solid usual prose from this author, extra cookie for being well researched. Medium spicy. Bi representation ftw
"26 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up …
This one has straight up torture in it, tw tw tw
