About the Author Matt Gilliard runs the popular review website 52 Book Reviews where he does author interviews, and reviews SFF books and audiobooks. Contact Info Website Twitter Facebook Google+ Finding My Tribe When Sarah asked me to take part in this project about what I’ve learned from speculative fiction, a lot of things came…

About the Author Yo! I’m Zack, a 33-year-old, quarter-Hungarian, typically shaven-headed male. I’ve lived in Northern Arizona, where the weather is nice and the political decisions are horrifying, since 1990, with occasional forays into the wetter and colder world. My favorite activities include: listening to 70s-00s punk and post-punk music, cooking and then eating delicious and often…

The other day I wrote this post about why I love the genre so much. It got me to thinking. I’ve been a little less engaged than I usually am in other blogs and I started wondering why. It’s not because the blogs are terrible, or I’m losing interest in the genre. It’s because cancer…

Books I’m Eyeing is a (hopefully) weekly series wherein I show you the books that have intrigued me, and the blogs and reviews we can all blame that on. My goal is to make my library hate me because of all the holds I have placed. This feature will show you just how I’m accomplishing that….

Speculative fiction has a massive fan base. We have conferences; people cosplay, being a geek is something to be proud of; we spend hours each week listening to podcasts that talk about various issues in geekdom. We talk about important things like which book/movie has the best spaceship and that’s not weird, but normal. It’s…

About the Book Owen’s family moves from the city to the countryside, and the adolescent Owen quickly develops friendships and rivalries. When he discovers a corpse in the river, it proves the catalyst for a spiralling descent into the darker reaches of the community, and a stark rites of passage for Owen. 432 pages (paperback)…

About the Book The first book of Kate Elliott’s epic Novels of the Jaran, set in an alien-controlled galaxy where a young woman seeks to find her own life and love, but is tied to her brother’s revolutionary fate In the future, Earth is just one of the planets ruled by the vast Chapalii empire….

As a reviewer, I see the book cover cliche discussion regurgitated and discussed over and over and over again. I usually try not to enter those frays. There are a few reasons for that: First, art tends to be subjective, and there’s nothing wrong with one person liking what another person hates. No one is…

Yesterday I went to the library (twice). I had my kid with me on the second trip. She’s two (on the 15th) and absolutely obsessed with the moon. We were wandering through the isles (while she was yelling, “WHAT’S THAT?!” at the top of her lungs). I was just looking to see what the library…

Books I’m Eyeing is a (hopefully) weekly series wherein I show you the books that have intrigued me, and the blogs and reviews we can all blame that on. My goal is to make my library hate me because of all the holds I have placed. This feature will show you just how I’m accomplishing…