science fiction
Life Out of Order by Audrey Niffenegger
Twenty-three years after The Time Traveler's Wife, Niffenegger hands the disorder to Henry and Clare's daughter. Alba has two husbands, a safe house she has owned since 1…
Gleanings by Neal Shusterman
A gawky nineteen-year-old in a violet robe stands up at a meeting of licensed killers, offers an opinion, and is laughed at by the entire room. Two months later she walks…
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
An Arctic explorer pulls a dying stranger off the ice, and the stranger's confession contains a second voice, the creature he made and abandoned. Two centuries on, the ne…
Escape Me by Tahereh Mafi
A spoiler-free review of Escape Me by Tahereh Mafi: thirty-nine chapters, three narrators, and a strict rule about which of them is allowed to know what is actually happe…
Artemis by Andy Weir
Jazz Bashara checks her bank balance every day like it might have grown on its own. She needs 416,922 slugs. Not four hundred thousand, not half a million. That precise f…