Postapocalyptic/Dystopian

Sep 5

Review of Burn by Peter Heller

I love Peter Heller's books, and Burn offers a wonderfully complicated friendship, meaningful connections to nature, momentous secrets,...

Aug 20

Review of The Blighted Stars (Devoured Worlds #1) by Megan E. O'Keefe

Megan E. O'Keefe's first space opera in the Devoured Worlds series presents failing worlds filled with conflict, shifting loyalties,...

Jan 3

Review of Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang

In the dystopian food desert of the future, a desperate chef is enlisted to create elaborate dishes for the wealthiest elite on a lush...

Dec 14, 2023

Review of The Power by Naomi Alderman

ICYMI: In Naomi Alderman's novel The Power, teenage girls develop unimaginable powers, including the ability to inflict harm. This resets...

Nov 30, 2023

Review of The Future by Naomi Alderman

Alderman offers a dive into a future world that's crumbling due to greed, disregard for the environment, a loss of human connection, and...

Nov 2, 2023

Review of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Emily Tesh's debut novel is a space opera about war, duty, brainwashing, escaping limitations, and reinventing oneself--with fascinating...

Oct 12, 2023

Review of The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins

Emi, Kristina, and Larch are a family that survived the immense destruction of the climate crisis, but secrets, danger, and a double life...

Sep 13, 2023

Review of World Running Down by Al Hess

Hess's dystopian Utah relies on AI, robots, and the growing, stark split between the haves and have-nots. Trans salvager Val is just...

Aug 23, 2023

Review of The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

I loved the futuristic space-mission capabilities, smart and strong all-woman crew, the mystery and suspicion, and most of all the...

Dec 27, 2022

Review of The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

This gorgeously written postapocalyptic climate-fiction story offers up a future in which civilization buckles to the power of weather...

Sep 23, 2022

Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

After the World Falls Apart I have a fascination with postapocalyptic and dystopian books, and I think it's for the same reason I'm...

Aug 5, 2022

Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

After the World Falls Apart I have a fascination with postapocalyptic (set in a time after a disaster) and dystopian (set in a time of...

Jul 19, 2022

Review of Upgrade by Blake Crouch

Main protagonist Logan was hard for me to emotionally connect to, but I was hooked by the heart-pounding action, the fascinating imagined...

Jun 9, 2022

Review of Activation Degradation by Marina J. Lostetter

Lostetter's standalone science fiction is a story about robots, a ragtag space crew, friends like family, and reimagining one's place in...

May 10, 2022

Review of Steelstriker (Skyhunter #2) by Marie Lu

With intriguing questions about loyalties and motivations, gutsy skirmishes, deep friendships, familial duty, and a smoldering romance...

May 4, 2022

Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

In this nested story that spans centuries, Mandel explores a pandemic, moon colonization, the universal connection of music, the...

Mar 10, 2022

Review of Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu

In Marie Lu's young adult dystopian series starter Legend, the Republic and Colonies war with each other, a plague separates the haves...

Mar 3, 2022

Review of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Nagamatsu's science fiction centers around a resurgence of an ancient Arctic plague. These interconnected stories are odd, fascinating,...

Jan 25, 2022

Review of Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves by Meg Long

I was hooked by Meg Long's debut young adult science fiction novel about tough young Sena, her skittish fighting wolf Iska, and their...

Jan 20, 2022

Review of A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers #1) by Alex White

The first in Alex White's Salvagers space opera series offers diverse characters, strong women, a heist setup, and, ultimately, a ragtag...

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