Postapocalyptic/Dystopian

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...

Feb 18, 2021

Review of The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

Johansen offers peeks at her characters' pasts as well as the forces that shaped the Tearling, and she plays with time and reality to...

Feb 15, 2021

Review of The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James

I loved this. Romy's soaring hopes, her vulnerability and then her growing doubts, her self-reliance and quick thinking, and the shifts...

Jan 28, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/28/21 Edition

01 The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James Can you fall in love with someone you’ve never met, never even spoken to--someone...

Dec 1, 2020

Review of Skyhunter by Marie Lu

Lu offers complex motivations, clashes between idealism and realism, editorialization about class and race, and futuristic advancements...

Sep 9, 2020

Review of Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson

Robots, time travel, teen angst, and this gorgeous cover. Yes to all of this. I didn't anticipate the great twists Johnson provides.

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