Moderation, Elaine Castillo (Atlantic 978-1-838-95498-7, £17.99, 320pp, hc) July 2025. (Viking 878-0-593-48966-6, $29.00, 320pp, hc) August 2025. From a novel that grapples with how we might expand our definition of humanity to include the artificial, animal, and microbial, I turn to one that explores the fractal complexity of humanity in the here-and-just-after-now. Elaine Castillo’s Moderation is a worlds-spanning romance, and one of its worlds, the bridging world, is the ...Read More| Locus Online
Minds in Transit, Joan Slonczewski (Caezik 978-1-664-1073-2, $24.99, 260pp, tp) July 2025. It is a long time since we shared imagination with Joan Slonczewski. Their previous novel, The Highest Frontier, was published over a decade ago (2011), and appeared to inaugurate a quasisatiric near-future series about genius students coming of age amidst turbulent US politics; but no sequels have ever appeared, perhaps overtaken by reality. It is a ...Read More| Locus Online