Steve Donoghue’s posts from the original Open Letters Monthly Archives.
In the future, a vast corporation sends operatives back in time to loot the past, and those operatives have one rule above all others: bring nobody back with you. When one of those operatives breaks that rule, Wesley Chu's novel takes off
Read MoreIn a generous new anthology, a group of talented authors tells stories set in the "Emberverse" of S. M. Stirling - an Earth where all technology has abruptly stopped working
Read MoreA former slave in a brutal empire is now wielding both political and magical power the second volume in Jon Sprunk's hugely enjoyable "Book of the Black Earth" series
Read MoreAt the heart of this astounding work of fantasy broods a jungle called the Vorrh, a forest so unending that it warps time and steals souls.
Read MoreIn the new novel from James Cambias, a space pirate in the near future - and the enforcer hunting him - encounter something neither one expects
Read MoreWhen a renegade mage steals a powerful book of sorcery, the world of Marc Turner's fantasy debut is plunged into a disturbing new form of warfare
Read MoreIn the latest Star Wars novel, Darth Vader and his evil Emperor are trapped on a hostile world, being hunted by man and beast
Read MoreMary Robinette Kowal's sparkling "Glamourist" fantasy series comes to a complex and intriguing conclusion
Read MoreIn N. K. Traver's exciting debut, a young cyber-hacker finds his life steadily being commandeered - but his own reflection in the mirror.
Read MoreIn the concluding volume of James Enge's gripping fantasy trilogy, a band of unlikely heroes is caught between warring godlike beings in a world quickly tearing itself apart
Read MoreIn a dystopian future, a plucky young woman from a poor village suddenly finds herself at the heart of the corrupt power system and the focal point of a rebellion in "The Hunger Ga-" um, in Victoria Aveyard's "The Red Queen."
Read MoreIn a world very much like our own, super-powered clandestine operatives vie with each other on missions to save or destroy humanity
Read MoreIn V. E. Schwab's new fantasy novel, a young man can travel between a string of alternate-reality Londons
Read MoreWhen young Promise's family is killed on their peaceful frontier planet, she signs up with the space-Marines - as one tends to do in such circumstances
Read MoreThe legendary fantasy author Michael Moorcock returns after a long absence to the genre he helped to create
Read MoreIn the opening volume of the "Toxic City" series, London is cut off from the rest of the world and filling up with super-powered mutants - two things which have been true on YouTube for some time now.
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