science-fiction

Woah. William Gibson's newest does not disappoint. A hard-edge sci-fi premise told with his signature style and grit. As usual, it requires a very close read, but the dividends are worth it. There really are so few authors who can follow-through so masterfully on

The first book I've read in 2017 is "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. It's a work of speculative fiction set in the Republic of Gilead, a dystopic totalitarian theocracy which has taken control of a United States beset with environmental disasters

"He, She, and It" blew my mind. It's as cyberpunk as anything else I've read, but also deep in identity, emotion and mythology. Not to mention that the conceptions of the future (as written in 1991) are simply uncanny. I've since picked

Finally. Finished. This one took me a little while. Not necessarily a difficult read; definitely enthralling. The sheer volume of the book, with all the characters, places, timelines, histories, mythologies, is staggering. Stephenson weaves it together like a magician. Hard to belive this came