science fiction Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/science-fiction/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:14:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg science fiction Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/science-fiction/ 32 32 38398750 Neverworld Wake: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/neverworld-wake-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/neverworld-wake-a-novel/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:22:06 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19565 Beatrice returns from her college freshman year still haunted by the death of her boyfriend senior year. His loss fractured the close-knit popular group they’d been a part of, but when one of them has a party and invites Bea she hopes by seeing the group again she can get the closure she so desperately […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/neverworld-wake-a-novel/feed/ 0 19565 The Bones Beneath My Skin https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/the-bones-beneath-my-skin/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/the-bones-beneath-my-skin/#respond Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:13:25 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18977 After losing his job Nathan finds himself at loose ends. With no attachments in his life he decides to head to the remote cabin in Oregon that his parents left to him to lick his wounds and regroup. But author TJ Klune is having none of that in The Bones Beneath My Skin so when […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/the-bones-beneath-my-skin/feed/ 0 18977 August Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/august-reading-wrap-up-8/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/august-reading-wrap-up-8/#comments Tue, 03 Sep 2024 07:50:10 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18606 August flew by, thanks to my first encounter with COVID. But I’m better now and while I didn’t get much reading or reviewing done, what I did read was diverse and interesting. Time to get back to regular review posting!   As technology advances there is more and science fiction about scenarios that feel too […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/august-reading-wrap-up-8/feed/ 2 18606 My Murder by Katie Williams https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/my-murder-by-katie-williams/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/my-murder-by-katie-williams/#respond Thu, 11 Apr 2024 07:30:33 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18351 When My Murder begins Louise is still getting used to her body, luxuriating in the smallest of its sensations. Every movement feels like a gift and in its way, it is. The real Louise, or the original woman, was one of five women slain by a serial killer and this Louise is a clone. The government […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/04/my-murder-by-katie-williams/feed/ 0 18351 In Ascension by Martin MacInnes https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/in-ascension-by-martin-macinnes/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/in-ascension-by-martin-macinnes/#respond Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:47:38 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18320 In the near future two events occur that add new possibilities for human survival. One is an acceleration process that allows spacecraft to travel at up to 30 million mph, a speed previously unimagined, but that will open up galaxy exploration beyond science’s wildest dreams. The other is closer to home—an unmapped vent in the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/03/in-ascension-by-martin-macinnes/feed/ 0 18320 The Future by Naomi Alderman https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/the-future-by-naomi-alderman/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/the-future-by-naomi-alderman/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:55:30 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18154 The road to ruin is paved with certainty. The end of the world is only ever hastened by those who think they will be able to protect their own from the coming storm. From holiday horror to ending the year with dystopian apocalyptic science fiction? Why not! I decided to lean into everything that gives […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/the-future-by-naomi-alderman/feed/ 6 18154 Shark Heart: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/09/shark-heart-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/09/shark-heart-a-novel/#comments Tue, 19 Sep 2023 07:25:37 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17869 Today’s review needs a bit of a preface: My husband doesn’t read (I know, I know, I love him anyway). He teases me about my obsession with books by noting there are only so many stories and I’ve read them all so how can I keep reading? Theoretically, this is true. Most novels revolve around […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/09/shark-heart-a-novel/feed/ 4 17869 In the Lives of Puppets https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/in-the-lives-of-puppets/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/in-the-lives-of-puppets/#respond Thu, 22 Jun 2023 07:53:01 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17668 They gave us life, and eventually, the power of decision-making. We were rational creations, not guided by emotion. Our jobs were simple: to do what we were told when we were told to do it. But with their teachings came a price they did not expect: we began to ask why? A father, son, and […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/in-the-lives-of-puppets/feed/ 0 17668 Upgrade: A Novel by Blake Crouch https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/08/upgrade-a-novel-by-blake-crouch/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/08/upgrade-a-novel-by-blake-crouch/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2022 04:16:20 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16907 As summer winds down, it’s time for one last hurrah of propulsive, can’t-put-down, vacation reading. For me, it was Upgrade by Blake Crouch. In the novel, Agent Logan Ramsey shares his troublesome past and the present that’s shattered his life as he knew it. It’s an unspecified time in the future and he’s on the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/08/upgrade-a-novel-by-blake-crouch/feed/ 8 16907 This Time Tomorrow https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/this-time-tomorrow/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/06/this-time-tomorrow/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2022 04:57:17 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16770 I’ve had mixed success with time travel novels this summer (I’m looking at you, One Italian Summer) so I was a bit hesitant to pick up This Time Tomorrow. What swayed me is that it’s by Emma Straub, whose last novel All Adults Here was a favorite of mine. Thankfully, while I may not have […]

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