Fenwick McKelvey rated The Fifth Season: 5 stars

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #1)
This is the way the world ends. Again.
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman …
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This is the way the world ends. Again.
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman …

Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash (Paperback, 2022, Penguin Books, Limited)
After the Internet, what came next?
Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything …

When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains — …

The Peripheral is a 2014 science fiction mystery-thriller novel by William Gibson, set in near- and post-apocalyptic versions of the …

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first …

Gene Wolfe: Shadow of the Torturer (Paperback, 1984, Pocket)
The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. It …

In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds …

As a wise ape once observed, space is big - vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly so. However, if you look too closely …

Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys …

A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is …

Who tampered with the elevator?
The mundane job of elevator inspection becomes a mysterious tale of intrigue. Whitehead weaves …

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to …

A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem.
When Kris Kelvin arrives at …