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In early April, Jeff VanderMeer dropped a surprise on fans, announcing the release of Absolution (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Oct. 22), the fourth book in his bestselling and critically acclaimed [...]

WHAT IS LATE-STAGE, MIDDLE-AGED, WHITE-MALE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM BUT ending up in a ridiculous shouting match about native plants? That's how it worked out for me, at least. But long before [...]

Anton Hur's novel, "Toward Eternity," combines science and poetry to explore themes of love, war, and identity in a future world where nanites have made people immortal. The story follows Yonghun Han, who has been transformed into an immortal being through nanite cellular replacement. As the narrative progresses, the novel delves into the confluence of science and the arts, with discussions about poetry and the creation of an artificial intelligence entity named Panit. However, as the story moves into the future, the structure becomes harder to follow, and the focus on characterization diminishes. The novel also sidesteps the consequences of the climate crisis and instead introduces a nuclear war. Overall, the novel's initial emotional resonance fades, and the core relationship that drives the narrative feels distant. [Extracted from the article]

INTERIOR CHINATOWNBy Charles Yu Over the past 15 years, Charles Yu has carved out a fascinating, eclectic career as a storyteller, first receiving widespread acclaim in 2010 for his novel [...]

Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation (**** SELECTION May/June 2014) won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie. It was the first volume in the Southern [...]

THE BOOK OF JOAN By Lidia Yuknavitch 266 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $26.99. Post-apocalyptic fiction too often pays lip service to serious problems like climate change while allowing the reader to [...]

CALIFORNIA By Edan Lepucki 393 pp. Little, Brown & Company. $26. Some dystopian novels, like Cormac ¡McCarthy's ''The Road,'' explore human relationships in dark, existential post-collapse scenarios, uninterested in either [...]

VLAD By Carlos Fuentes Translated by E. Shaskan Bumas and Alejandro Branger 122 pp. Dalkey Archive Press. $17.95. When Carlos Fuentes died in May at age 83, he left behind [...]

ZOO CITY By Lauren Beukes. Angry Robot, paper, $7.99. Beukes's energetic noir phantasmagoria, the winner of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award, crackles with original ideas. The title refers to [...]

REDEMPTION IN INDIGO By Karen Lord. Small Beer Press, paper, $16. Lord's first novel is a clever, exuberant mix of Caribbean and Senegalese influences that balances riotously funny set pieces [...]

THE DREAM OF PERPETUAL MOTION By Dexter Palmer 340 pp. St. Martin's Press. $24.99 In his tragicomic first novel, ''The Dream of Perpetual Motion,'' Dexter Palmer takes elements from Nabokov, [...]

WHAT IS LATE-STAGE, MIDDLE-AGED, WHITE-MALE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM BUT ending up in a ridiculous shouting match about native plants? IN THE WINTER OF 2022, A NEIGHBOR had a dead tree cut down, but the tree company dumped the heavy logs on my front yard's rain garden, for reasons unknown. You could spend $10 and plant wildflowers on your balcony, or you could let dead logs lie where they had fallen and help insects, woodpeckers, and ground-foraging birds. Clack-clack, another log and more of the plants I'd planted with such love, gone. [Extracted from the article]

OUT OF print for fifteen years, Edward Whittemore's Jerusalem Quartet (1979-1986) is an essential part of Fantasy's shadow cabinet, a government-in-exile. Surely in some parallel universe, Sinai Tapestry, Jerusalem Poker, […]

Writing a blog that often emphasizes strategies for sustainable creativity, not to mention having just published a book on the subject, has put me in the position of being asked [...]

Michael Walters's first novel, The Shadow Walker (Reviews, June 16), is a mystery set in modern Mongolia, to which the British author has traveled as a management consultant. When did [...]

EDITED BY EKATERINA SEDIA. Senses Five (www.sensesfive.com), $14.95 paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-9796246-0-5 Original genre anthologies a have been mixed bag in recent years, with an overreliance on established household names [...]

You've written four books set in Franco's Spain, the latest being The Summer Snow (Reviews, Dec. 19, 2005). Do you think of them as mysteries or historical novels? The first [...]

PW: One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead [reviewed above] is narrated by Alfred Wegener, the originator of continental drift theory. What inspired you to choose him as [...]

by Stuart Gordon (1983) PUBLICIZED as 'the stunning novel of the coming millennium,' Stuart Gordon's 1983 novel uses the conceit of a fake biography to tell the story of Ralph [...]

You tunneled into reason: that many earthlings you had observed had enjoyed ecstatic many moments already where they had relaxed into the comfort of being invisible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]