In The Book of M, One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears—an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories. Ory and…
When Shuos Jedao wakes up for the first time in Revenant Gun, several things go wrong. His few memories tell him that he’s a seventeen-year-old cadet– but his body belongs to a man decades older. Hexarch Nirai Kujen orders Jedao to reconquer the fractured hexarchate on his behalf even though Jedao has no memory of…
Hello dear readers, and welcome back to the blog! Today I’m interviewing Octavia and Rondo, the main characters of Olivia Cole’s A Conspiracy of Stars! In A Conspiracy of Stars, Octavia has only ever had one goal: to follow in the footsteps of her parents and become a prestigious whitecoat, one of the scientists who study the…
At the beginning of Tone of Voice, Xandri Corelel has spent six months living among the Ongkoarrat after her unceremonious firing from the crew of the Carpathia, and though she misses her home, she has settled into her new life. Then Diver arrives with news that changes everything. The Hands and Voices — squid- and…
In The Underwater Ballroom Society, you will “visit an old hangout one last time with an ex-siren and find out what the twelve dancing princesses learned in their secret world. You will feel the fallout of Oberon stealing a guitar god. You will wonder if magic might finally find a lonely officer of the Crown…
As one of the only remaining autistics in the universe, Xandri Corelel has faced a lot of hardship, and she’s earned her place as the head of Xeno-Liaisons aboard the first contact ship Carpathia. But her skill at negotiating with alien species is about to be put to the ultimate test in Failure to Communicate.…
Hello, friends! Today I am welcoming a pair you’ll be familiar with if you’ve read Taylor Brooke’s Fortitude Smashed, and who you’ll be looking forward to in Curved Horizons. After scientists stumbled across an anomalous human hormone present during moments of emotional intimacy, further research created the ability to harness the direction of living energy and pinpoint…
The Six-headed Hydra enters the interview room, and tries to sit on the couch that Ceillie has prepared for her. After a couple of clumsy attempts, she decides not to sit, pretending that was her intention from the beginning. The Harpy arrives flying slowly and lands on the back of the armchair that has been…
Binti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful on the whole, the same cannot be said for the Khoush, who fan the flames of their ancient rivalry with the Meduse. Far from her village when the conflicts start, Binti…
“All emotions are universal. Regardless where we come from or where we are going, we live, we dream, we strive, we die.” Lukas K. Law, Foreword of Where the Stars Rise anthology Today I’m here to talk to you about two anthologies I’ve read and adored recently – The Sum of Us and Where the Stars Rise. Both…
Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space in A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet —and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe—in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star. Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins…
Emmett Atwater isn’t just leaving Detroit; he’s leaving Earth. Why the Babel Corporation recruited him is a mystery, but the number of zeroes on their contract has him boarding their lightship and hoping to return to Earth with enough money to take care of his family in Nyxia. Forever. Before long, Emmett discovers that he is one of…
Hello, friends! Today I’d like to introduce you to two of my fictional friends – Clara Gutierrez and Sal, the fantastic main characters in Meredith Katz’s The Cybernetic Tea Shop, which is one of the first novellas I ever read and fell in love with. I hope you love them as much as I do! Clara…
Meet Dina Demille, a nice Texas gal who runs a seemingly ordinary, quaint B and B. But Dina’s inn is a magic, thinking entity; her fluffy Shih-tzu, Beast really is a beast; and her guests are the kind that no one on earth is supposed to know about: guests like a dethroned galactic tyrant with…
THE YEAR IS 2030 in Santa Muerte. In a dramatic, final attempt to free her inner demons, twenty-year-old Daniela Delgado tempts fate and winds up on a strange farm in 1923. With an olive complexion due to her Mexican/Italian heritage and a fresh pixie cut, she is mistaken for a “boy of color.” Her only…