All Our Wrong Todays Elan Mastai Penguin Random House LLC Release Date: February 7, 2017 ISBN 978-1-1019-8513-7 Most of us have read stories about future dystopias; for a while it seems like they dominated the speculative fiction landscape. Some of the stories would chronicle our descent from the present to […]
Time Salvager Wesley Chu Tor Book Release Date: July 7, 2015 ISBN 978-0-7653-7718-0 (NOTE: Why I didn’t post this review when I first read Time Salvager months ago I’ll never be able to fathom, but with its sequel, Time Siege, coming out, and me all hot and bothered to read and review […]
Ithaca Falls Steve Thayer Conquill Press Release Date: April 15, 2015 ISBN 978-0-9908461-1-6 I have a couple of confessions to make. I picked up Steve Thayer’s new novel, Ithaca Falls, for two non-literary reasons. The first is that the author lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, just over the river from […]
Weighing Shadows Lisa Goldstein Night Shade Books Release Date: November 3, 2015 ISBN 978-1-59780-840-8 In Weighing Shadows, we meet Ann Decker, a down on her luck former foster kid working in a dead end job at rinky-dink Sam’s Computer Solutions. Ann’s fortunes seem to change, however, when she is recruited […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.