Aug 9, 2026
Lee joins us to talk about a book which is difficult to boil down to a paragraph - it's about power, and the means by which power is acquired and lost, and it examines this on a multitude of scales, from the granular to the metaphysical. Also it's set in a world where every inch of available territory is covered by...
Aug 2, 2026
A cyberpunk colonial parable from one of our favorite authors - or, at least, the author of one of our favorite books. This one is not quite Divine Endurance, but it's certainly something. It's not a pleasant read but it sure is full of historical interest.
ESCAPE PLANS - GWYNETH JONES
Jul 19, 2026
A book about drugs that make you see god. It's day-after-tomorrow SF from the day before yesterday, and it gets all of its predictions so catastrophically wrong that its primary use case is as a time capsule from the war on terror. Also preserved: jokes we thought were funny ten years ago.
Afterparty - Daryl Gregory
Jul 5, 2026
It's Little Shop of Horrors but with lesbian Irish millennials! That's the whole pitch. It fulfills the brief, and arguably overdelivers.
Eat The Ones You Love - Sarah Maria Griffin
Jun 28, 2026
It's gay, it's magic, it's a literary classic. Featuring our old books correspondent Kat Weaver!
Orlando - Virginia Woolf