I don't enjoy being harsh on a book, but All the Birds in the Sky was a real disappointment fo...

Triumph or disaster? Vintage or trainwreck? These are some of the questions we ask ourselves as we consider the year 1983 in science ficti...

A more structured and engaging read than the two previous novels in the series. I greatly enjo...

The winners of the Prix Boréal 2026 were announced September 21. They are the only awards in French-speaking Canada to be chosen directly by the reading public in the genres of science fiction and …

Lire pour le plaisir est associé à une réduction du stress, à une plus grande empathie, à un meilleur bien-être et à un sentiment de solitude moins lourd, montre une nouvelle étude britannique.

I had a bit of trouble getting into the story, something I don’t normally experience with Le G...

This novel has an interesting premise, a well-developed universe, and tackles some genuinely i...

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Darwin’s Radio raises fascinating questions, but it occasionally has a tendency to lose its w...

Tehanu is a moving, intelligent, and remarkably well-written novel. It engages with the previ...

In the midst of a long, hot summer, Colin and Phil turn their sci-fi attentions to the treatment of climate change in science fiction. Nat...

In The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin once again demonstrates her remarkable ability to bal...

This book is almost the polar opposite of A Wizard of Earthsea. Where the first novel is drive...

A thoroughly charming, smart, and profound reading experience. The more I read Le Guin, the mo...

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The Falling Woman was very promising, but it did not deliver. I enjoyed the setting, the two ...

This is a peculiar one. I enjoyed many aspects of this novel, but for some reason the whole en...

This episode was intended to be a grab-bag of different topics, but we inadvertently dug up a show with a strong theme: translation! We star...

This novel is the perfect example of why I am not a good fantasy reader. By most metrics, it i...

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I’m not sure how I feel about this novel. On the one hand, it’s very personal, touching, troub...

Balado Arts · Tous les 2 mois · This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scho...

All the Nebula Award Winners for Best Novel. As per Wikipedia: "The Nebula Award for Best Nove...

It's awards season again, so Colin and Phil hunt out this years short story Hugo nominees: the six best stories from the science fiction a...