December is the month to look back at the year as it’s drawing to a close. I’m thinking about my favorite fiction from this past […]
Sci-Fi
Why Retire When There Are Aliens to Fight?
Every genre in literature has a subgenre within it that contains books that can be considered “comfort” or “cozy” reads, stories which are simply fun […]
Climate Fiction: A Cli-Fi Reading List
Apocalyptic fiction is not a new genre. One could argue that it is one of literature’s oldest genres. Ragnarok. The Revelations of John. The (often […]
Weird Fiction Spotlight: Caitlín R. Kiernan
Weird Fiction is a difficult genre to describe, but you know it when you read it. Stories that get categorized as Weird Fiction often take […]
Speculative Fiction: Jessamine Chan and Jo Harkin
Speculative fiction or science fiction… these books could fall under both genres. Scientific advances drive the plots, but these are set in worlds that *almost* […]
Harrow the Ninth: More Skeletons! More Swords! More Memes!
(Spoiler Warning: I am going to discuss some minor spoilers from Gideon the Ninth.) After reading Maggie’s post about Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, I […]
Watchmen: A Classic on Page and on the Small Screen
Confession: I have never really been into super hero comics and stories. The last Marvel Comic Universe movie I saw was the first Captain America. […]
Gideon the Ninth
This week the Matchmakers team welcomes guest blogger Maggie Lawrence, Youth Services Associate at our Noble Branch! Maggie writes: Gideon the Ninth is one of […]
Stories of Your Life: Short Stories by Ted Chiang
I recently finished Ted Chiang’s sci-fi short story collection Stories of Your Life and Others, an engaging, smart, and varied set of stories that stretch […]
