Reads A Lot

[ad_1] Four young women go on a camping trip. Things slowly begin to go wrong.     It was just the four of them, four girls alone in the forest. “Everything is dicks,” Elizabeth said. She gestured at the gnarled gray trunks rising bare-limbed into the shade of their own canopy. “I mean, look around. … Read more

[ad_1] Anger is an energy. A young girl, a slave in the South, is presented with a moment where she can grasp for freedom, for change, for life. She grabs it with both hands, fiercely and intensely, and the spirit world is shaken.     In a wooden house on a modest farmstead by a … Read more

[ad_1] A clan storyteller unfolds the tale of Seonag and the wolves, and the wolves and the waves.     I know you’ve heard the story of An Duine Aonarach, who one day walked into the sea and never returned. And likely you have at least heard of Seonag as well, who did the same … Read more

[ad_1] For over 25 years, the George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpowered people in an alternate history. “There’s never a shortage of people other people want dead.” Spector felt on familiar footing now that he saw the entire game. All a hit man wants can be … Read more

[ad_1] A new story by Laurie Penny.     The King was bored. For five hundred years he had been King of the country of Myth and Shadow, and he was a good king, if a slightly bewildered one. The countryside rolled with treacherous forests rammed full of all the requisite enchanted creatures, and stories … Read more

[ad_1] The planet of Quányuán is arid to the point of being uninhabitable. Wetness is a concept left back on Earth. That doesn’t stop one elderly woman from stepping outside the safety of the colony whenever she can for the brief opportunity to fully experience the outside world.   Her bath is deep and steaming. … Read more

[ad_1] In The Menace from Farside, Ian McDonald returns to his elegantly wound solar system of the twenty-second century, full of political intrigue and complicated families – and we want to send you a copy! Remember: Lady Luna knows a thousand ways to kill you, but family is what you know. Family is what works. Cariad Corcoran … Read more

[ad_1] A brand-new collection of Chinese speculative fiction is coming out next year! Two Lines Press has announced a new book series of translated works, and the very first entry is That We May Live: Speculative Chinese Fiction.  According to a press release, each edition of Calico is curated around a “particular theme, region, language, historical … Read more

[ad_1] I was at home all of October; it included Scintillation which meant lots of friends were here for a few days, but also there was a week of being laid up doing nothing but reading, and at the very end I headed to Nantes for Utopiales. I read 27 books, or I guess 28 … Read more