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“The Number of Man” Explores Playing God With Clones and Trackers

Sounds like a wonderful world: tracking devices to help find missing children, protect against identity theft, provide instant access to medical information in the event of an emergency. The list goes on. But without legal authorization, who gives researchers, technicians, scientists and others the right to, in effect, play God…
Jim Alkon
May 20, 2020
Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale: To Be Continued in “The Testaments”

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 Poncavage
November 29, 2018
Fiction

A Grand Adventure Through the Stars Beyond

In science fiction and fantasy, this object often has to be brought from point one location to another, whether it’s a Horcrux, the One Ring, or the Death Star plans. Relics of Andromeda (Gold Dragon Books), Jonathan Michael Erickson’s first installment in a planned sci-fi trilogy called “Songs of Ancients,”…
Jeff Daugherty
April 10, 2019
Fiction

Paolini’s SciFi Debut Is a First-Rate First Contact Story With Epic Sweep

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/to-sleep-in-a-sea-of-stars-christopher-paolini.jpg “A powerful piece of SF, with intelligent writing and big ideas.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time “Dazzles with otherworldly delights — and unearthly nightmares.” —Newsweek “This is Paolini's best book so far, skillfully done, brilliantly imagined and cleverly executed." —Starburst Magazine “Sure to be one of the…
Dennis Hetzel
October 8, 2020
Fiction

Memories of the Past and a Vision of the Future

In Another Time (Harper) by Jillian Cantor is a wonderful historical fiction novel with deep characters who love books, music and each other. In 1930s Berlin, Max, a German bookshop owner sees Hanna playing what she loves most, the violin.  He is enchanted and in an attempt to get her…
Jennifer Blankfein
March 29, 2019
Fiction

Losing a Loved One to Supernatural Forces

When Brit Lunden created The Bulwark Anthology, she envisioned a series of bite-sized novelettes, each written by a different author, each with one common thread: their setting, the small, fictitious town of Bulwark, Georgia. Before handing over the reins to her writer friends, Lunden sets up the anthology series with…
BookTrib
April 19, 2019
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Set Sail for Adventure: David D. Levine’s 6 Favorite Flying Ship Novels

BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content, including this article by David D. Levine, author of The Adventures of Arabella Ashby novels, and the most recent, Arabella and the Battle Venus. Sure, ships are cool. But you know what’s even cooler? Flying ships. David D. Levine, author of Arabella and the…
Bookish
July 18, 2017
Fiction

Chill Out: 5 Books to Distract You from Your Sunburn

As a ginger, I happen to be aware of one of life’s fundamental truths: sunburn seriously sucks. From hot discomfort to peeling like a molting snake in the rain forest, having sunburn is frightfully unpleasant. However, in addition to light exfoliation with a warm wash cloth and gentle soap, I…
Katie Hires
July 21, 2016