Welcome to Smugglivus 2017! Throughout this month, we will have guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2017, looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2018, and more. Today’s Smugglivus guest is Martha Wells – prolific author of Fantasy novels like the excellent Books of the Raksura series. Her most recent work is THE AWESOME Science Fiction novella All Systems Red Please give it up to Martha! For Smugglivus, I thought I’d do a list of recommendations for some of the favorite books I’ve read this year, or am reading this year, or am about to read this year Substrate Phantoms by Jessica Reisman An SF novel about love, loss, and contact with a truly alien intelligence too strange for humans to understand. If you love thoughtful far future SF with brilliant worldbuilding, this is for you. The Red Tides of Fortune and The Black Threads of Heaven by JY Yang These are two linked fantasy novellas, each one featuring one half of a pair of twin siblings and their complicated family and political relationships in a complex and unique world. Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng An intense read about […]