If you’ve entered a bookstore in the past three years, you’ll probably know about the Hunger Games; it is quite possibly the biggest young adult publishing phenom since Harry Potter. After finally reading the dystopian trilogy, I had a hard time making a judgment: Certainly, they are good. But are they great? Part of my…
I am loving the new trend towards post-apocalyptic romance.It’s good to know that even if the world goes to the dogs – or chimps, apes, or killer whales – there will still be love, community, and humanity. That’s probably too rosy a future for some sci-fi fans, but for those of us that are romance…
Right now is a great time for those who love post-apocalyptic sci-fi. I am reading three different series with that theme and just finished watching the last episode of Dollhouse, which had a post-apocalyptic thread running through its season closers. I was surprised – and delighted – to find that romance has joined the bandwagon…
First things first. I have to say up front that Tsunami Blue was a wickedly hard book to grade. On the one hand, the premise is unusual, the worldbuilding caught my interest, and I basically enjoyed the book. However, the book also features a few plot points that only a stronger reader than I could…
Eve Kenin (aka Eve Silver) went on my auto-buy list the second I finished Driven. This book packs a wallop, no doubt about it. The action never stops, but the characters are compelling and unforgettable. Finishing the book was difficult because I didn’t want to leave them or their adventures behind. In post-Apocalyptic Earth, one…
What an odd, unsettling little book How I Live Now is. Should I be surprised that this received the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in young adult fiction? It seems all of the YA award winners these days are for stories that push the envelope. And this one does. It really does. Daisy has…
The futuristic saga of 2176 begun in The Legend of Banzai Maguire continues in Kathleen Nance’s Day of Fire. This time, the series voyages to a future version of Canada for another high-tech SF thriller. In 2176, Tri-Canada is completely cut off from the rest of the world, quarantined ever since disease decimated much of…
Time-travel romances often take their characters into the past or bring them to the present, but the future seldom seems to be the destination of choice. While most futuristics seem to involve aliens, space travel and other worlds, I’ve always had a soft spot for SF tales of the future right here on planet earth,…
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