Much like his earlier novels, The Wall and The Horizon, Gautam Bhatia has created a secondary world with action taking place within a single city in his deeply interesting new book, The Sentence. On one level, this is a story about two sections of a divided city, Peruma, one ruled by a Council of corporations […]
Archives for 2025
Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter
It’s been a while since I discussed science books for scifi readers, and that’s due to all my down time, not any lack of great books. But then I found something different: Lunar, A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter, edited by Mathew Shindell, who is Curator of Planetary Science at the […]
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikovsky takes on familiar themes in Alien Clay, but, as always, he shuffles the cards of his imagined realities to create a story that is also uniquely powerful. Arton Daghdev, an academic revolutionary who transgressed the rules of orthodoxy imposed by the dictatorial Mandate on Earth (similar to the Perfection ideology in Days of […]
Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky
In his afterward to Days of Shattered Faith, Adrian Tchaikovsky makes the self-evident statement that this third novel in a projected series of five secondary world fantasies, known as The Tyrant Philosophers, is not a work of history. But he says that he owes a lot to a couple of historians, notably Anita Anand and […]
Breath of Oblivion by Maurice Broaddus
Breath of Oblivion by Maurice Broaddus is the second novel in his Astra Black series (following 2022’s Sweep of Stars) and moves the story of the Muungano world forward from multiple perspectives, each of which probes the internal struggles of a large cast of characters. While the novel shifts more to deepening our understanding of […]
