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Alien planet with an uplifted mantis shrimp warrior and human explorer facing a living beanstalk consuming a spacecraft beneath ghostly digital faces.

Book Review: Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #4)

When Terraforming Turns Scientists Into Insane Gods It’s finally time to review the fourth book in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series: Children[…]

Four boarding-school girls conduct a candlelit séance as a ghost appears above them, surrounded by curdled milk, rotting fruit, and creeping black decay.

Review: Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran

Clay | August 7

A Queer Gothic Horror Mystery I never meant to become a gothic horror junkie, but here we are. After hunting for a new[…]

Three frightened children explore a moonlit canal filled with hanging dolls as a sinister glowing-eyed Wish Doll looms beside their boat.

Lost on Doll Island by Cassandra Ramos-Gomez Review

Clay | July 31

A Masterclass in Creeping Out Middle Schoolers My 9-year-old daughter was so terrified by Lost on Doll Island by Cassandra Ramos-Gomez that she[…]

Books I Keep Recommending

A large, intelligent spider confronts a lone astronaut on an alien terrain with webbing in the air and a lush Earth-like planet and spacecraft looming above — capturing the central tension of Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Evolved spiders, a dying human race, and an ending I didn’t see coming.

Trust

Hernan Diaz

Start slow, finish stunned. This Pulitzer winner is a masterpiece.

A lone astronaut in a white spacesuit floats tethered near a large cylindrical spacecraft, facing a glowing yellow star in deep space. The scene captures the isolation and intensity of interstellar travel, evoking the themes of survival and discovery from Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

A lone astronaut, an alien friend, and a race to save Earth. Pure joy.

Armored SecUnit “Murderbot” with a glowing red visor stands guard on a rugged alien world during a dangerous planetary survey.

All Systems Red

Martha Wells

My mom begged me to read this for years. She was right.

The Courage to Be Disliked

Fumitake Koga & Ichiro Kishimi

The book that changed how I think about other people’s opinions.

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson wrote the blueprint for psychological horror.

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