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 es escritora y periodista independiente. Ha trabajado como reportera para Metro News, The Sundance Channel, Shaw TV y CKUA Radio, en temas de noticias, entretenimiento y estilo de…
Jim C. Hines es el autor de 20 novelas de ciencia ficción y fantasía publicadas, incluidas la trilogía Goblin Quest, la serie Magic ex Libris, la serie de relatos de cuentos de hadas Princess, la…
Josh Rountree es un novelista y cuentista que trabaja en múltiples géneros, centrándose principalmente en el terror y la fantasía oscura. Su novela "La leyenda de Charlie Fish", publicada por Tachyon…
Hace quince años, Jeremy y Ralph desaparecieron durante una excursión de fin de curso al Bosque Estatal Red Crow en Virginia Occidental. Un instante estaban allí, y al siguiente ya no. El bosque fue rastreado repetidamente, pero nunca se encontró rastro de los chicos. Y...
Arthur Edwards ha vivido toda su vida en el pequeño pueblo de Northbridge, en el norte de Inglaterra. Creció allí. Y conoció y se casó con su esposa, Madeleine, en Northbridge. En Northbridge, Madeleine y él criaron a sus dos hijos, Elizabeth y Patrick. Como suele ocurrir en la mayoría de los pueblos pequeños, independientemente de...
Terror. ¡A algunos les encanta! ¡A otros no! Y, en general, la gente suele tener opiniones muy marcadas sobre el género, inclinándose hacia uno u otro bando. Irónicamente, hay quienes le tienen miedo al terror como género. Sí, le tienen miedo...
Cuando los lectores dejaron a Joey Jessup al final de Final Cut de Marjorie McCown, ella había descubierto la identidad del asesino que había matado a la subdirectora Courtney Lisle en el set de una película de superhéroes de gran presupuesto. Había sobrevivido a un intento de asesinato cuando el asesino había...
Eveen es una asesina profesional. El énfasis en esa afirmación debe recaer en "profesional". Es una asesina reanimada, sin recuerdos y al servicio de la Matrona de Asesinos que hizo posible su segunda oportunidad en la "vida". Es eficiente, discreta y dispuesta a eliminar (el término...
Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...
