This short novel explores an alternate-history, near-future, post-war San Francisco in which robots come online and create a noodle shop...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading A Marriage at Sea , Sophie Elmhirst's nonfiction that reads like a novel, about a couple whose...

The Time-Travel Books I love a time-travel book in any genre. Time-travel and time shifts allow a story to go places it otherwise never...

The shadowy, eerie tone of the first title in Gillig's Stonewater Kingdom series gives way to heartwarming, sometimes funny moments as an...

Amity Gaige's Appalachian Trail-set novel offers several of my favorite elements: a Maine setting, a missing-person storyline, an...

Nikki Erlick explores grief, loss, family conflicts, strangers' bonds, and sticky moral dilemmas related to a speculative-fiction...