Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom 9781250357465, $24.99, 176pp, hc) August 2025. I pretend no expertise at all on the current spate of cozy SF and fantasy novels, except to note that, along with food, furniture, and found families, a lot of them seem to focus on the problems of running small businesses – coffee shops, tea merchants, bookstores, bakeries, etc. In the case of Annalee Newitz’s Automatic Noodle, ...Read More| Locus Online
Anima Rising, Christopher Moore (William Morrow 978-0-06-243415-9, $30.00, 400pp, hc) May 2025. It almost goes without saying that Victor Frankenstein and his creation have been enjoying a two-cen…| Locus Online
Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom 978-1250890757, $19.99, 192pp, hc) May 2024. The idea of social stratification enforced through architecture – in other words, high-rises with th…| Locus Online
Menewood, Nicola Griffith (MCD/Farrar, Straus, Giroux 978-0-37420-808-0, $35.00, 720pp, hc) October 2023. When her novel Hild was published back in 2013, Nicola Griffith wrote a short essay for Tor…| Locus Online