TJ Klune es un autor ganador del Premio Literario Lambda y exexperto en reclamaciones de una compañía de seguros. Entre sus novelas se incluyen "En este río me ahogo" y "La casa en el mar cerúleo". Su…
Gretchen Berg nació en la Costa Este, se crio en el Medio Oeste y pasó varios años en el Pacífico Noroeste. Ha enseñado inglés en Corea del Sur y el norte de Irak, y ha viajado a todos los demás…
El galardonado autor Grady Hendrix ha escrito sobre la bandera confederada para la revista Playboy, ha cubierto novelizaciones de películas de terror y enjambres de ninjas para medios como Slate y el…
Elizabeth Little es la autora de "Querida Hija", ganadora del Premio de la Crítica Strand a la Mejor Novela Prima, y de dos obras de no ficción: "Mordiendo el Renacuajo de Cera" y "Un Viaje de Lengua"…
La Dra. Kathryn Harkup es química y escritora. Obtuvo un doctorado sobre sus sustancias químicas favoritas, las fosfinas, y continuó su investigación postdoctoral antes de darse cuenta de que hablar…
Zen Cho es autora de El Hechicero de la Corona, La Reina Verdadera y la colección de relatos Espíritus en el Extranjero. Ganó los premios Hugo, Crawford y el British Fantasy, y fue finalista de los…
Maggie Tokuda-Hall es la autora del libro ilustrado ganador de la Medalla de Oro de Parent's Choice, Also an Octopus, ilustrado por Benji Davies. Vive en Oakland, California, con su esposo, su hijo y…
Rebecca Serle es autora y guionista de televisión, residente en Los Ángeles. Serle codesarrolló la exitosa adaptación televisiva de su serie juvenil Famous in Love, y también es autora de The Dinner…
Este mes no solo es el primer aniversario del Laboratorio Octavia en la Biblioteca Central, un espacio de estudio para hacer uno mismo, sino también el cumpleaños de Octavia E. Butler el 22 de junio…
La obra de Celia Laskey ha aparecido en Guernica, The Minnesota Review y otros medios. Tiene una maestría en Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Nuevo México y fue finalista del Premio de Cuento para…
It is a given that, in most mystery novels, someone dies. The death occurs either before, or shortly after, the novel begins. The bulk of the narrative will explore how or why someone died. In her new novel, Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Gillian McAllister finds a new way to approach...
The year is 1917 and a seventeen-year-old girl named Willow, who lives with her widowed mother and two younger brothers in a small, rural village in southeastern Korea, is asked by a traveling matchmaker if she wants to get married. The older woman shows Willow a photo of a young...
We all know the story of Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up. J.M. Barrie wrote and published a play and two books about Peter and his adventures in the early 20th century, recounting how Peter visited the Darling children: Wendy, John, and Michael, and spirited them away...
In early 2020, Margarita Montimore published her debut novel, Oona Out of Order. It followed a woman who awakes every January 1st at a different point in her life. She lives in that year, and in that body, until December 31st, only to awaken the following morning beginning a different...
In the late afternoon, Todd sits on the beach watching 6-year-old Anthony, his son, play in the surf. A man approaches Todd, and, after a minute, he recognizes him. It is Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly during their senior year in high school. In spite of their shared history, Jack...
In early March of 2020, Jamie Gray is unceremoniously demoted from marketing executive to “deliverator” at füdmüd, an internet startup company in New York City. As the COVID pandemic worsens, Jamie struggles to get by until a chance delivery happens to be to Tom Stevens. Tom tells Jamie that he...
In 2021, Becky Chambers introduced readers to the moon of Panga, where, centuries ago, the civilization’s robots gained consciousness and, en masse, walked off into the surrounding wilderness and were never heard from again. Until the day a robot named Splendid Speckled Mosscap walked up to Sibling Dex, a tea...
After her husband’s death, Tova Sullivan took a job cleaning the Sowell Bay Aquarium. She works evenings after the aquarium has closed to the public, mopping the floors, clearing the trash cans, and cleaning the glass walls of the exhibition tanks until they shine. As she works her way around...
Monster. The word brings to mind ugly, misshapen creatures wreaking havoc wherever they go. Perhaps the most famous monster is Frankenstein’s monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It’s been over 200 years since the teenaged Shelley created one of the most enduring tales of all time. And over the last two...
On a whim, a young Chinese-American girl pays with an inch of her hair so that she and he sister can see Romeo and Juliet at the new nickelodeon in their neighborhood. From that moment on, she has a single desire: to be a motion picture star. Not simply an...