Season’s Readings everyone! As is generally true, there have been some marvelous books published in 2025, and I’m thrilled to share my favorites with you. I’ve listed these books in alphabetical order…
Travis Baldree is a full-time audiobook narrator who has lent his voice to hundreds of stories. Before that, he spent decades designing and building video games like Torchlight, Rebel Galaxy, and Fate…
D.J. Waldie is a historian of Los Angeles, a memoirist, and a translator. He is the author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (1995), Where Are We Now: Notes from Los Angeles (2005), Becoming Los Angeles…
Eric Heisserer is the Academy Award–nominated screenwriter of Arrival and the creator of the Netflix series Shadow and Bone. He lives in Los Angeles. His debut novel is Simultaneous and he recently…
Deston Munden is the author of several books, including Tavern, also set in Dargath. Born and raised near the Outer Banks, he can be found writing, cooking, playing World of Warcraft, and cosplaying…
Richard Wolinsky co-hosted and produced Probabilities, a half-hour radio program devoted to science fiction, mystery, and mainstream fiction, from 1977 to 1995 on KPFA-FM. He took the program solo in…
Oliver Wang is a professor of sociology at CSU-Long Beach and the author of Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews of the San Francisco Bay Area (Duke Univ. Press, 2015). Oliver is a…
Jennifer O'Callaghan is a freelance writer and journalist. She has worked as a reporter for Metro News, The Sundance Channel, Shaw TV, and CKUA radio in news, entertainment, and lifestyle beats. She…
Jim C. Hines is the author of 20 published SF/F novels, including the Goblin Quest trilogy, the Magic ex Libris series, the Princess series of fairy tale retellings, the Janitors of the Post…
Josh Rountree is a novelist and short story writer who writes across multiple genres, and focuses mostly on horror and dark fantasy. His novel The Legend of Charlie Fish, released by Tachyon…
James Sugre is a vampire. He has lived for centuries, but has made some questionable choices. Bad choices, when it comes to investments. Now, he is broke. He has no money and is deep in debt. He can’t even afford his own reflection (they are available for a fee from Vampire Nation, an international conglomerate that both governs and provides for the world’s vampire population).
Wishes. We all make them, either silently to ourselves or possibly as a breathless whisper as we drop a coin in a fountain. The reason behind them can range from whimsical to deadly serious. And, in the "real world," they are, to quote Douglas Adams, "mostly harmless." In the world of fiction, however, wishes are entirely different.
The Ending Writes Itself is a marvelous read. Clarke will keep readers guessing and reevaluating as information is revealed and the body count rises, right up to the very last page.
2020년, VE 슈왑은 18세기 초 프랑스를 배경으로 원치 않는 결혼을 피하기 위해 악마와 같은 거래를 하는 젊은 여성 애디 라루를 독자들에게 소개했습니다. 『애디 라루의 보이지 않는 삶』에서 슈왑은 애디가 자신의 교활함과 강인한 의지로 여러 세기에 걸쳐 자신의 삶을 어떻게 만들어가는지 추적합니다.
달리아의 삶은 하녀가 "열쇠지기 새로 고용하세요. 긴급! 새벽 전에!"라고 적힌 타자기로 친 쪽지를 발견한 날 아침 완전히 바뀌었다. 변덕스러운 저택의 모든 사람들은 그 쪽지의 의미와 누가 썼는지 알고 있었다. 그 쪽지의 작성자는 바로 변덕스러운 저택의 여주인, 아나테마 부인이었다. 그녀는 거대한 거미와 인간의 모습을 한 존재였다...
1924년 런던에서, 수줍음 많은 젊은 학자 라오 셰는 수학자 버트런드 러셀의 집으로 불려간다. 그곳에 도착하자 러셀은 친구이자 동료인 디 렌 지에 판사가 중국 선동가들과 함께 잘못 체포되었다고 설명한다. 러셀은 디 판사의 신분이 밝혀지면 큰 파장이 일어날까 봐 두려워한다.
