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Cecilia LyraSeptember 5, 2018
Hulu's adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s iconic novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, premiered on April 26 and Elisabeth Moss, who plays Offred, is nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series category. Alexis Bledel (known for her role on Gilmore Girls) won her first Emmy in an…
Rachel CarterSeptember 13, 2017
Summer is in high gear, which means that the sun is bright and the days are sweltering. We’re mostly hiding in the air conditioning lately, devouring book after book and clamoring for some great new reads. We’re in luck as August is packed with new releases that we can’t wait…
Rachel CarterAugust 3, 2017
In Sophie Mackintosh's debut dystopian fiction, The Water Cure (Doubleday), love is rationed like water--and in scarce supply. Dubbed "a gripping, sinister fable" by dystopian queen Margaret Atwood, I had high expectations coming into this novel. Mackintosh did not disappoint. Three sisters live on an island with their mother and…
Rebecca ProulxJanuary 9, 2019
Superheroes are clearly super hot right now. So is the hit HBO television series Game of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels, which is hot off its extremely well-received sixth season. “Hmm, if only there was a way to capitalize on the…
Katie HiresAugust 11, 2016
Good news, Handmaid fans! Margaret Atwood just announced she will deliver a sequel to her dystopian classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, next year. To be titled The Testaments (Random House), Atwood promises readers, “Everything you’ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost…
Joanna PoncavageNovember 29, 2018
It’s getting dark. Residents of Arkdale soon will shelter for long weeks behind their town’s locked gates until the weak sun begins to shine again. Even in the light time of year, only the brave — or foolhardy — venture out to explore the nearby ruins of an unknown civilization,…
Joanna PoncavageJuly 19, 2021
In this enthralling, dare we say feminist, prize of speculative fiction The Power, Naomi Alderman conceives a near future where the deadly power to electrify spirals from women’s collarbones, through their hands, effusing across the globe, forcing a new world order. Though published in 2016, interest in the book picks…
Maria V. LunaFebruary 23, 2018
Dystopian fiction that gives us a bleak view of humanity like The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner series, and The Handmaid's Tale are at peak popularity. Perhaps this is why Jordan Phillips' new work, Futura: A Novella seems like it's coming out of left field. Rather than harsh climates, or totalitarian government regimes where…
BookTribJanuary 12, 2018
In Bina Shah's Before She Sleeps (Delphinium), the ratio of men to women in a South West Asia capital has become increasingly and critically low. In order to fix the problem, the government has taken on using modern technology, combined with terror, to ensure that women take on multiple husbands, to…
Rachel Fogle De SouzaAugust 6, 2018
—∞— For years, readers have speculated whether author Suzanne Collins would revisit the world of The Hunger Games, and to the delight of her fans, she’s returned to the Republic of Panem with a surprising twist. Her newest novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic), is a prequel to…
Jodé MillmanMay 19, 2020
https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/booktrib_Baxter_TheSunCollective.jpg Like a skilled magician, Charles Baxter, author of The Soul Thief, messes with reality just enough to transport the reader into an ominous fog of "tomorrow-plus-today” — Baxter’s shorthand for interwoven timelines. In his supernatural thriller, The Sun Collective (Pantheon), a cultist new age movement has taken root in…
Karina Holosko, M.A. English LitNovember 17, 2020
“An intimate, surprisingly gentle vision of post-disaster humanity, less concerned with how we might survive than with why — and for whom." — Alix E. Harrow, Hugo Award-winning author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January "An intensely human story about people reaching out through trauma and loss and discovering…
Nikki ErlickSeptember 9, 2020
Fans of Star Wars and Divergent will revel in internationally bestselling author Veronica Roth’s stunning new science-fiction fantasy series. On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favored by fate, everyone develops a currentgift, a unique power meant to shape the future. While most…
BookTribJanuary 25, 2017
Lark Ascending (Algonquin) is the long-awaited seventh novel by master storyteller Silas House. His prose is finely crafted, carefully honed, thought and emotion provoking and as lyrical as a haunting Celtic elegy. He is, in short, one of the most important writers in the English language today. Mississippi has its…
Linda HitchcockSeptember 26, 2022
Number one bestselling author, Veronica Roth, returns with another haunting dystopian tale in Poster Girl (William Morrow). Set in a future society shaken by governmental upheaval, protagonist Sonya Kantor is imprisoned in the Aperture, a facility for political dissenters of the former regime, the Delegation. Her crime is that over…
Jodé MillmanOctober 18, 2022