IT’S FRIDAY WOOHOOOOOO (and there is a Brazil x Belgium World Cup game in the horizon). We are also over at Kirkus – this time, with a review of The Calculating Stars. I LOVE IT GO READ IT.…
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Nussia by Michele Tracy Berger Published 6/26/2018 Nussia… I said her name like a wish. All Lindsay Fields has ever wanted was to have a best friend–someone to share all her likes and dislikes, who would truly understand her.…
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Nussia: Michele Tracy Berger on Inspirations & Influences
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their Inspirations and Influences. In this feature, we invite writers to talk about their new books, older titles, and their…
We are over at Kirkus today for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn this time, with a review of Awakened by James S. Murray & Darren Wearmouth. A summer horror blockbuster in book form, Awakened is the story of…
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A Smugglerific Cover: NUSSIA by Michele Tracy Berger
In which we reveal the cover for the next short story in our 2018 Awakenings series, Nussia by Michele Tracy Berger! Behold the smugglerific cover: About the Story Nussia… I said her name like a wish. All Lindsay Fields…
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Guest Book Review: Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
Today, we are giving the floor over to Charles Payseur, a member of our Smuggler Army with his monthly column X Marks the Story and a Book Smugglers Author, to talk about Sam J. Miller’s recently published novel Blackfish…
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Oops, I Accidentally wrote a Trilogy – Yoon Ha Lee on the Machineries of Empire
Revenant Gun, the third book in the Machineries of Empire trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee is out next week (I CAN’T WAIT) and we invited the author to talk about writing the series. Oops, I Accidentally wrote a Trilogy…
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana reviews Artificial Condition, the long-awaited sequel to All Systems Red by Martha Wells featuring the one and only Murderbot. It’s super great! Go over to Kirkus to learn more.…
We are here to share some pretty sweet news with regards to Joanna Russ! On May 8, Open Road Media published the ebook editions of The Female Man, And Chaos Died, and Picnic on Paradise—all of which were finalists…
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You Will Be Assimilated: Data vs. the Borg – An essay by Marina J. Lostetter
I’ve got a robot-empathy problem. I like to tell people that if you put googly eyes on a trash can, I’ll empathize with it. I can’t help but imagine that, to some degree, it has become alive. Try it.…
We are over at Kirkus today for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn this week, with a review of Head On by John Scalzi. A police procedural, with an android powered professional sports league that involves ripping the opposing…
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Joint Review: Obsidio by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Illuminae Files #3)
Title: Obsidio Author: Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Genre: Science Fiction, Epistolary Novel, Young Adult Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Publication Date: March 2018 Hardcover: 615 Pages Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from…
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Old School Wednesdays Presents: A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeline L’Engle
Old School Wednesdays is a regular Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped)…
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! Today, it’s Ana’s turn with a review of a new Tor.com novella, Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson Go over to Kirkus to check it out.…
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Over at Kirkus: The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana reads a new novella by Aliette de Bodard… It’s a retelling of Sherlock and Watson! AND IT’S AWESOME.…
Title: Thunderhead Author: Neal Shusterman Genre: Speculative Fiction, Dystopia, Young Adult Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication date: January 2018 Paperback: 504 Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, in the…
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! It’s Ana’s turn, with a review of a new SF novel by debut author Sue Burke: A very… different and super engaging novel. Well worth a read.…
We are over at Kirkus early this week for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn today, a review of YA science fiction novel Unearthed by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner. Pitched as Indiana Jones in Outer Space (with Teenagers!),…
Do you like military science fiction? I like military science fiction. I grew up reading a lot of historical fiction about wars and soldiers, and in time it melded with my other favorite genre, and so my lifelong fondness…
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana reviews the last novella in the Binti trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor *sniff* I can’t believe it is all over, I loved this series a lot! Go over to Kirkus…
Title: The Only Harmless Great Thing Author: Brooke Bolander Genre: Alternate History, SF Publisher: Tor.com Publication date: January 23 2018 Paperback: 96 pages In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark,…
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Over at Kirkus: A Post-Mortal SFF List (Inspired by THUNDERHEAD by Neal Schusterman)
We are over at Kirkus early this week for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn today, with a list of post-mortal SFF inspired by Neal Shusterman’s excellent Thunderhead (book 2 in the Arc of a Scythe series). In Scythe…
Today we are delighted to be partnering with Simon & Schuster to share a giveaway of Thunderhead by Neal Schusterman, the second book in the Arc of a Scythe series! Thea was a huge fan of Scythe (book 1…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their Inspirations and Influences. In this feature, we invite writers to talk about their new books, older titles, and their…
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Presenting The Touchstone Trilogy by Andrea K. Höst
In which we celebrate the publication of beautiful new print editions of three of our very favorite books: The Touchstone Trilogy by Andrea K. Höst! Beautiful Cover Art by Kirbi Fagan We Book Smugglers have been busy in 2017–we…