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…
جنیفر اوکالاهان نویسنده و روزنامه‌نگار آزاد است. او به عنوان خبرنگار برای مترو نیوز، کانال ساندنس، تلویزیون شاو و رادیو CKUA در حوزه‌های خبری، سرگرمی و سبک زندگی کار کرده است. او همچنین به عنوان…
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…
پانزده سال پیش، جرمی و رالف در پایان سال تحصیلی در اردوی تفریحی به جنگل ایالتی رد کرو در ویرجینیای غربی ناپدید شدند. یک لحظه، آنها آنجا بودند و سپس ناپدید شدند. جنگل بارها و بارها جستجو شد، اما هیچ نشانه‌ای از پسرها پیدا نشد. و...
آرتور ادواردز تمام عمرش را در شهر کوچک نورث‌بریج در شمال انگلستان گذرانده است. او در آنجا بزرگ شد. و با همسرش، مادلین، در نورث‌بریج آشنا شد و ازدواج کرد. نورث‌بریج جایی است که مادلین و او دو فرزندشان، الیزابت و پاتریک، را بزرگ کردند. مانند اکثر شهرهای کوچک، صرف نظر از...
وحشت. بعضی‌ها عاشقش هستند! بعضی‌ها نه! و به طور کلی، مردم تمایل دارند احساسات قوی نسبت به این ژانر داشته باشند و در یکی از این دو دسته قرار بگیرند. از قضا، افرادی هستند که از ژانر وحشت به عنوان یک ژانر «می‌ترسند». بله، آنها از خود ژانر می‌ترسند...
وقتی خوانندگان در پایان نسخه نهایی مارجوری مک‌کاون، جوی جساپ را ترک کردند، او هویت قاتلی را که دستیار کارگردان کورتنی لیسل را سر صحنه یک فیلم ابرقهرمانی پرهزینه کشته بود، کشف کرده بود. او از سوءقصدی به جان خودش جان سالم به در برده بود، زمانی که قاتل...
ایوِن یک قاتل حرفه‌ای است. تأکید روی این جمله باید روی کلمه «حرفه‌ای» باشد. او یک قاتل احیا شده است که خاطراتش پاک شده و در خدمت سرپرست آدمکش‌ها است که شانس دوباره‌ای برای «زندگی» به او داده است. او کارآمد، محتاط و آماده برای کشتن است (اصطلاح...)
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...
