fiction

  • Which Nebula finalist do you pick?

    What a hard choice! Now that I’ve read all six Nebula Awards 2024 finalists for best novel, I’ve thought about which one I’d vote for. If I had a vote, that is. I don’t. BUT IF I DID–oh, man. Hard,… Continue reading

  • Two More Nebula Finalists

    Continuing my previous post on the short-listed novels for the 2024 Nebula award, here are two more reviews of the finalists, Ann Leckie’s Translation State and Vajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright Doors: Ann Leckie, Translation State (Orbit, 2023) A… Continue reading

  • Three recent literary dystopian novels

    A dystopian novel gives a cautionary and prophetic glimpse into the disastrous place the ordinary world is in danger of becoming. Often these literary glimpses are grim, because the circumstances these novels critique are grim. Some dystopian novels might be… Continue reading