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What to read this weekend: Jeff VanderMeer returns to Area X
26 Oct

What to read this weekend: Jeff VanderMeer returns to Area X

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One thing I did not foresee happening this year was us getting a new entry in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series. But the author announced exactly that back in April, and I’ve pretty much been counting down the days until the book’s release ever since. Absolution, the fourth novel in what previously stood as a trilogy, hit the shelves this week and it takes us back to the beginning of Area X and the ill-fated first expeditions to explore it. For the uninitiated, the series deals with a strange coastal region in the US that’s inexplicably been shut off behind…
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What to read this weekend: Preventing an asteroid apocalypse, and Cult of the Lamb’s first arc wraps up
05 Oct

What to read this weekend: Preventing an asteroid apocalypse, and Cult of the Lamb’s first arc wraps up

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.HarperNormally a book described as being largely about a teen love triangle wouldn’t be something I’d reach for, but I decided to give this one a go after reading many glowing reviews, and found myself drawn in by Louise Erdrich’s prose right away. There is a love triangle, yes, but The Mighty Red is about much more than that. It covers a lot of ground, including the struggles of a farming community facing economic recession, land degradation and concerns about the chemicals being used to keep the land productive. The…
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What to read this weekend: The history of overhyped tech, and a new graphic novel from Charles Burns
28 Sep

What to read this weekend: The history of overhyped tech, and a new graphic novel from Charles Burns

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.W. W. Norton & CompanyRichard Powers’ Playground is a novel of contrasts: the vast unknown of Earth’s oceans, a place of constant discovery and marvelous creatures that seem always to be at play, versus technological advancement and the rise of AI; the unlikely friendship between a young poet and a boy whose life revolves around coding; a remote island with a tiny population still feeling the effects of a history of exploitation, and the tech elites who envision it as the stepping stone to their own utopia. Through the perspectives…
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What to read this weekend: A house haunted by AI and the mysterious murder of a superhero
21 Sep

What to read this weekend: A house haunted by AI and the mysterious murder of a superhero

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.Putnam Pub GroupAn agoraphobic engineer named Henry spends his days locked away in his extremely smart home building freaky little robots, including one that looks like a magician and rides around on a tiny bike. His wife, Lily, is the only person he really ever sees, but things have grown tense between them — a situation only worsened by the fact that he’s usually holed up alone in the attic working on a secret project. One day, Lily invites some former coworkers over to encourage Henry to socialize, and Henry…
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What to read this weekend: The Night Guest, Is Earth Exceptional? and Into the Unbeing
14 Sep

What to read this weekend: The Night Guest, Is Earth Exceptional? and Into the Unbeing

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.The Night Guest by Hildur KnútsdóttirAnyone who lives with a difficult-to-diagnose chronic illness and has endured the demoralizing process of trying to get proper treatment can tell you it is, at times, a living nightmare. Advocating for yourself, fighting to be taken seriously; it’s something I’ve dealt with most of my life as a person with autoimmune diseases. So when I read the description of Hildur Knútsdóttir’s psychological horror novel, The Night Guest, it resonated with me immediately:Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is…
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What to read this weekend: Rural horror infused with Chinese mythology, and the lush alien world of Convert
31 Aug

What to read this weekend: Rural horror infused with Chinese mythology, and the lush alien world of Convert

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.Sacrificial Animals by Kailee PedersenThere’s something about the idea of coming home and reawakening dormant familial trauma that just makes for great horror stories, and Sacrificial Animals is no exception. In the novel, brothers Nick and Joshua Morrow return to their family’s farm in Nebraska after many years estranged from their abusive father, reopening old wounds and allowing supernatural forces to take root. Sacrificial Animals bounces between “Then” and “Now” perspectives, painting a picture of the boys’ childhoods under the violent and racist man, and the gravity of returning once they learn…
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What to read this weekend: Near-future dystopian fiction and a new approach to explaining life’s origin
11 Aug

What to read this weekend: Near-future dystopian fiction and a new approach to explaining life’s origin

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.Hum by Helen PhillipsRobots have become a regular fixture of the workforce, and humans are losing their jobs to AI. Climate change is wreaking havoc on the planet. It’s getting harder and harder for the average person to make ends meet. Facial recognition technology is being used for surveillance. Sound familiar? In her new novel, , author Helen Phillips paints a picture of what our near-future could look like.Its main character, May, has lost her job after technology made her role obsolete, and, desperate for money to support her family,…
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What to read this weekend: Existential sci-fi, a repair manual for the climate crisis, EC Comics resurrected
03 Aug

What to read this weekend: Existential sci-fi, a repair manual for the climate crisis, EC Comics resurrected

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.Toward Eternity by Anton HurToward Eternity does not waste any time in getting to the drama. The novel by Anton Hur begins in the not-so-far-off future, and opens with a moment of crisis: a patient in a nanotherapy research clinic has seemingly vanished into thin air. This patient had been undergoing a new type of treatment that uses android cells (dubbed “nanites”) to cure cancer by replacing the body’s own cells. In doing so, however, it transforms the body entirely into a nanodroid, giving rise to “nano humans” that are…
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What to read this week: The Light Eaters, Paranoid Gardens and I Was a Teenage Slasher
20 Jul

What to read this week: The Light Eaters, Paranoid Gardens and I Was a Teenage Slasher

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Recent releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham JonesStephen Graham Jones is something of an expert on slashers. The author has tackled the genre in a slew of his novels (most notably in the Indian Lake Trilogy, with its slasher-movie-obsessed main character) and has an ongoing column in Fangoria dedicated to its impact, so it’s not really a surprise to see he’s churned out another entry for the canon. But this time around, we’re getting a different perspective: the slasher’s point of view.I Was a Teenage Slasher is the fictional memoir…
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What to read this week: An astronaut’s journey and queer horror that bites back at cliché
14 Jul

What to read this week: An astronaut’s journey and queer horror that bites back at cliché

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention. Bury Your Gays by Chuck TingleChuck Tingle may be best known for his oft-memed erotica titles, but the author has also been making a name for himself in mainstream horror in recent years. Tingle’s second full-length horror novel, Bury Your Gays, was released this week, and if the title didn’t make it abundantly clear, it calls out one of Hollywood’s tiredest tropes: queer storylines that inevitably end in tragedy or erasure.In Bury Your Gays, bizarre circumstances befall the book’s protagonist, an Oscar-nominated scriptwriter named Misha, after he refuses studio…
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