Here are eight science fiction and fantasy new releases I am particularly excited to check out, and I think you should be too! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-12-29 11:38:00 UTC ]
This past summer, an auntie of mine dusted off an old cardboard box of books from a cluttered storage unit, and handed me a slim blue and gold paperback with soft, slightly frayed corners and a creased spine by Octavia E. Butler. I had never read science fiction that featured a Black girl being... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-12-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
Whether you love spy fiction, romances, sprawling sagas, or even horror, there’s a new historical fiction book for you on this list, like In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-12-21 11:36:00 UTC ]
No DeLorean necessary: Let ten of the best historical fiction books of 2022 -- including Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang -- take you on a trip back in time! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-12-06 11:36:00 UTC ]
Pandemics, witchcraft, terrifying A.I.: speculative fiction that stood out in 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-12-05 10:00:33 UTC ]
Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens. Actor, author, and film director Lake Bell joins AudioFile’s Michele Cobb to learn more about... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-12-05 09:53:28 UTC ]
These sturdy time machines have two things in common: They’re built to last and they’re constructed by pros. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-12-04 12:20:13 UTC ]
There’s something for everyone in this season’s bumper crop of novels set in other times and places. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-12-02 14:45:08 UTC ]
The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since The Road in 2006, shows him at the peak of his powers even as he nears his ninetieth year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2022-11-24 13:19:55 UTC ]
Lester will step down as executive director of the Center for Fiction on January 1, and an interim director will be appointed until a permanent replacement can be found. Lester joined the Center in March 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
The 2022 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction has been awarded to Khadija Abdalla Bajaber for her debut YA novel The House of Rust. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-11-10 19:36:19 UTC ]
Megachurch pastor and bestselling author David Jeremiah takes #1 on PW’s Religion Nonfiction Bestsellers List with his newest title, ‘The World of the End.’ In Religion Fiction, Amir Tsarfati tops with ‘By Way of Deception,’ based on real events inspired by Israel's national intelligence agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
We've rounded up the 15 best fiction books published this year to gift any lover of novels or story collections in your life this holiday season. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-11-02 16:00:00 UTC ]
Read your way into the best Japanese historical fiction, ranging from novels to manga and historical fiction about Japanese Americans. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-10-28 10:35:00 UTC ]
On May 13, I finally got to read my wayward science fiction story “It Is the Voice That Unnerves Me” in The Dread Machine. I had been submitting the story since the spring of 2019, and had thought many times about consigning it to the “retired” list. I knew every word, sentence and section break... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-10-20 11:05:00 UTC ]
Several faith-based novels set during Christmastime are publishing between now and November this year, just in time for the holidays. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
It is a truth universally acknowledged that there are as many definitions of “feminism” and “science fiction” as there are people who identify as feminists and science fiction enthusiasts—in fact, that is part of what makes both of these communities attractive to many people. However, by 1981,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-11 08:53:20 UTC ]
A longtime librarian discovers that a healthy love of fiction is actually, well, healthy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
The story within a story. It’s a common enough trope—from The Arabian Nights to Hamlet to the postmodern canon, we’re familiar with books that nest realities inside one another. Moving from the main narrative to the nested narrative can reveal interesting echoes, parallels, and reflections, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-03 08:54:13 UTC ]
At its best, the relationship between novelist and reader is an intimate one. Can I tell you something? whispers the writer, and the reader whispers back, Please do… Of all the forms that the novel can take, the diary is surely the most confiding of all; it’s as if the intimacy level has been... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-09-28 08:57:35 UTC ]