Postapocalyptic/Dystopian

Nov 30

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

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

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

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

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...

Jan 14, 2022

Six Book Recommendations from Smarty Librarians

Finding Your Next Great Read Although my to-read list is interminably long, having an endless TBR list brings me cozy, safe feelings, so...

Dec 16, 2021

Review of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

St. John Mandel weaves together the past, present, and future in this post-apocalyptic story about a pandemic (which has been made into a...

Mar 10, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/10/21 Edition

What I'm Reading Now The books I've got on my nightstand and on my Kindle at the moment: a turn-of-the century story about outlaws,...

Mar 1, 2021

Review of Machinehood by S.B. Divya

Space! Robots! Artificial intelligence! Divya has crafted strong female main protagonists who navigate the sometimes dark, always...

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