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The Light Pirate

January 2, 2023

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Frida’s baby isn’t due for another month, but as Wanda, a Cat 4 hurricane, bears down on the family’s home in a small Florida town she decides to make her entrance to the world. To mark the event ... Read More...

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Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

November 7, 2022

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What better time to review a novel set in an unspecified time in America’s not-too-distant future than the day before an election? Celeste Ng’s novel, Our Missing Hearts, could either be the way ... Read More...

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The Displacements

September 28, 2022

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In the late 70s, early 80s disaster books and movies were most often centered around manmade situations—The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, The China Syndrome, and Airport. It was man’s ... Read More...

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Master Class by Christina Dalcher

May 22, 2020

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Christina Dalcher’s debut novel, Vox, established her as one of those writers who can layer present events onto the future and make it grim, but plausible. In the novel, separation of church and state ... Read More...

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

March 2, 2020

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You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget. A man and his young son are walking on a desolate road surrounded by burnt trees and ashes. In the distance fires still ... Read More...

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