A sequel to Shusterman’s best-selling Unwind. I think publishers probably talked him into making it a trilogy in light of the success of The Hunger Games and other dystopian fiction series. It was a good move for all concerned, whoever had the idea. UnWholly begins where Unwind left off: Connor and Risa are leaders at …
Category Archive: Science Fiction
Dec 30
Sunday Salon: Books Read in November and December, 2012
I didn’t manage to get an end of the month post written for November, so here are the books I read in November and December: Middle Grade Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy by Nikki Loftin. The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde. Deadweather and Sunrise by Geoff Rodkey. In a Glass …
Nov 21
The Storm Makers by Jennifer E. Smith
I don’t know what they’re paying Brett Helquist to illustrate a book, but if it’s not a lot, he should demand more. I also don’t know if Mr. Helquist has some kind of magical spell that he places on his illustrations, but I’m telling you that his pictures draw me into a story in a …
Nov 07
Caught by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Caught, The Missing, Book 5 by Margaret Peterson Haddix. I have enjoyed all of the books in this series about time-traveling children who were kidnapped from their proper places in history and given to adoptive parents in the twenty-first century, but Caught may be my favorite of all the books in the series. In this …
Nov 06
Above World by Jenn Reese
“Above World” is what the Coral Kampii in the City of Shifting Tides call the land world outside the ocean. Thirteen year old Aluna has lived beneath the ocean’s surface all her life, and she’s about to undergo the ceremony in which she will be genetically modified to receive her tail to replace the two …
Nov 03
What Came from the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt
I just finished What Came from the Stars, and I loved it. I was somewhat annoyed by all the “foreign” words at first (“The quality of a Sci-Fi/Fantasy story is inversely proportional to the number of new words made up by the author.”), but then I started having fun trying to figure out exactly what …
Oct 19
Time Snatchers by Richard Ungar
Caleb is a time snatcher, an orphan trained by the man he calls “Uncle”, to travel through time and steal valuable artifacts that people in the year 2060 will pay big bucks to own. His time-traveling and thieving partner is Abbie, and the two of them have been living with Uncle and working for his …
Oct 13
The Prince Who Fell from the Sky by John Claude Bemis
“JRR Tolkien said that story ideas arise from ‘the leaf-mould of the mind.’ This story grew out of the rich compost of Alan Weisman’s speculative science book The World Without Us; Native American creation myths; one of the first postapocalyptic novels (and possibly the only hopeful one), Earth Abides by George R. Stewart; and the …
Sep 17
Cybils: Middle Grade Science Fiction and Fantasy
Bring it on! I am so excited that I get to be on the Round 1 judging panel for Cybils Middle Grade Science Fiction and Fantasy. What are Cybils, you ask? The Cybils awards are given each year by bloggers for the year’s best children’s and young adult titles. Nominations open to the public on …
May 04
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Dystopian fiction. Matt Alacron was not born; he was harvested. He’s a clone with DNA from El Patron, druglord of a country between Mexico and the U.S. called Opium, where other clones called “eejits” work the poppy fields in mindless obedience and slavery. But Matt is different; El Patron wanted Matt to retain his intelligence …
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