Category: Fiction Reviews

Feeding the Flying Fanellis is a light-hearted group of poems about feeding a circus troupe. The circus chef lists each member of the troupe’s particular preferences and the steps he takes to see that they …

There is something about having a story set in an isolated place like the desert that automatically ups the creep factor. Too many beings can easily die in the desert and those that survive are …

If you happily describe yourself as a Hipster, you’re most likely going to want to walk away from Hipster Animals: A Field Guide. However, if you find the whole thing hilarious, sit tight because you’re …

The Last Pilot, a novel, written by Benjamin Johncock hit stores in the midst of ABC’s hit The Astronaut Wives Club. The timing couldn’t have been better with people hungry for more space adventure stories, …

Binti is Himba. Her people still live in the desert, using the desert clay and oils to wash themselves, rolling their hair in clay and braiding it in patterns. Her father makes the best astrolabes …

I would like you to know that Jesse Eisenberg is making me uncomfortable. His first foray into fiction, Bream Gives Me Hiccups & Other Stories, is a selection of diary entries, child food reviews, letters …

Margaret Atwood has a gift when it comes to near future novels. In her new novel, The Heart Goes Last, a couple finds themselves facing homelessness and struggling to eek out even the most basic …

The tiny community of Lychford doesn’t appear to be much, but in its foundations lies a great power. When a major supermarket chain comes to town and wants to rebuild the very roads of the …

William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of the Sith’s Revenge brings Shakespeare’s Star Wars to a close, for now at least. I have enjoyed the puns, wordplay, and wit Doescher brings to the story. They have managed …

Let it be known that I was unaware when I began to read The Martian that author Andy Weir had written a novel by a nerd for nerds. Due to a rather lengthy stint reading …