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Sci-fi lovers, here's a book you should be looking forward to! Out next month! I wasn't able to truly get into sci-fi writing until I stumbled across Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy sometime in 2014. Comprised of Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance, it tells of an ecological l wasteland known only as Area X and the scores of scientists and … Continue reading Books I’m Excited About: ‘Hummingbird Salamander’
Inventory Manager Molly joins us on the blog to make one very big reading recommendation for your long nights at home this winter...even if you're not the biggest sci-fi reader. A beginning is a very delicate time. Know then that it is the year two thousand and twenty. In this time the most precious substance … Continue reading Spice Up Your Life: The Time Has Finally Come for You to Read ‘Dune’
This year, four science fiction-loving booksellers will delve into Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents: The 100 Greatest Science-Fiction Films, the new book by film historian Douglas Brode. They’ll watch the movies, read Brode’s take, and tell you – point blank – how they feel about all of it. #35 on Douglas Brode's list of … Continue reading Fantastic Planets #35 – Fantastic Planet/La Planete Sauvage (1973)
In anticipation of the final book in Justin Cronin's The Passage trilogy, The City of Mirrors (May 24th), bookseller Sarah H. revisits the first two bestselling books. The Twelve is an entirely different sort of book than The Passage. The Passage is part origin story, part post-apocalypse adventure thriller. Even though it is referenced as … Continue reading The Twelve – Book 2 in The Passage Trilogy
Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde by John Boessenecker (speaking & signing this Sunday at 3PM!) To most Americans, Frank Hamer is known only as the “villain” of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. Now, in Texas Ranger, historian John Boessenecker sets out to restore Hamer’s good … Continue reading New Books! 4/26/15
I recently read Kim Stanley Robinson's novel, 2312. Having never read Robinson's work before, not even his acclaimed Mars Trilogy, I was a little unprepared for how epic in scope this book turned out to be. Not only was the world he envisioned broad in spectrum - encompassing a solar system completely populated with humans … Continue reading Austin Event – Kim Stanley Robinson at UT
The #1 spot on Douglas Brode's list of 100 Greatest Science-Fiction Films is the 1927 Fritz Lang classic, Metropolis This is an incredible piece of cinema by any standard, and in order to pay it proper tribute we four booksellers held a private screening of Metropolis and would like to share our thoughts about it … Continue reading Fantastic Planets #1 – Metropolis
This year, four science fiction-loving booksellers will delve into Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents: The 100 Greatest Science-Fiction Films, the new book by film historian Douglas Brode. They’ll watch the movies, read Brode’s take, and tell you – point blank – how they feel about all of it. The following review has been written … Continue reading Fantastic Planets #52: Man of Steel
This year, four science fiction-loving booksellers will delve into Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents: The 100 Greatest Science-Fiction Films, the new book by film historian Douglas Brode. They’ll watch the movies, read Brode’s take, and tell you – point blank – how they feel about all of it. #56 in Douglas Brode's Fantastic Planets, … Continue reading Fantastic Planets #56 – Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
This year, four science fiction-loving booksellers will delve into Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents: The 100 Greatest Science-Fiction Films, the new book by film historian Douglas Brode. They'll watch the movies, read Brode's take, and tell you - point blank - how they feel about all of it. Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost … Continue reading Booksellers On Fantastic Planets: The Saga Begins
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