Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped)…
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Science Fiction
Title: Ancillary Justice Author: Ann Leckie Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Orbit Publication Date: October 1 2013 Hardcover: 416 Pages On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Breq is both…
Chat With an Author Giveaways Inspirations and Influences
Ancillary Justice: Ann Leckie on Inspirations & Influences (& Giveaway)
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Title: Inheritance Author: Malinda Lo Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Little, Brown Publication Date: September 24 Hardcover: 480 Pages The triangular spaceship hovered motionless in the sky above Reese Holloway’s house, as inscrutable as a black hole. It…
Title: Trading in Danger Author: Elizabeth Moon Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Del Rey Publication Date: September 2003 Paperback: 357 Pages Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father’s only child to buck…
Title: Once We Were Author: Kat Zhang Genre: Speculative Fiction, Dystopia, Young Adult Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: September 2013 Hardcover: 352 Pages “I’m lucky just to be alive.” Eva was never supposed to have survived this long. As the…
It’s Friday, and we are over at Kirkus! Today, Thea takes on young adult science fiction novel – soon to be CW television show – The 100 by Kass Morgan. The verdict? Not so good – The 100 is…
Giveaways Inspirations and Influences
Once We Were: Kat Zhang on Inspirations & Influences (& Giveaway)
Hello everyone and happy Friday! Today, our guest is Kat Zhang, author of the superlative young adult speculative fiction/dystopian Hybrid Chronicles series. Thea read the first book in the series, What’s Left of Me and loved it; naturally we…
It’s Monday, and we are over at Kirkus! Today, Thea reviews pre-apocalyptic mystery novel Countdown City by Ben H. Winters. And while it wasn’t as good as The Last Policeman, Thea still enjoyed it. Go HERE to get the…
Title: The Bone Season Author: Samantha Shannon Genre: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication Date: August 2013 Hardcover: 280 Pages It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called…
