Sharon Browning

The British Science Fiction Association award winners were announced Sunday, and some familiar names came…

What Makes This Book So Great Jo Walton Tor Release Date:  January 21, 2014 ISBN…

The 2014 Hugo Award Nominees were announced this Saturday, and we at LitStack are very excited…

Recently I’ve been reading What Makes This Book So Great, a gathering of essays by…

Honor’s Knight Rachel Bach Orbit Release Date:  February 25, 2014 ISBN 978-0-316-22108-5 Gosh, I am…

A friend of mine related a story of how he was talking to his young…

Boy, Snow, Bird Helen Oyeyemi Riverhead Books Release Date:  March 6, 2014 ISBN 978-1-59463-139-9 They’re…

So for a few moments, the corner of cyberspace that I tend to hang out…

Parasite Mira Grant Orbit Publication Date: October 29, 2013 ISBN 978-0-316-21895-5 Zombies are so passé.…

Half Bad Sally Green Viking Release Date:  March 4, 2014 ISBN 978-0-670-01678-5 Being an teenager…

I have a confession to make.  I’m a wimp. Not in everything.  I’m a competent…

In this week’s Gimbling in the Wabe, I’m unapologetically revisiting a piece I have posted…

Redshirts John Scalzi Tor First Edition:  June 5, 2012 ISBN 978-0-7653-1699-8 You don’t have to…

The Tropic of Serpents: A Memoir of Lady Trent Marie Brennan Tor Release Date:  March…

I took last week off Gimbling in the Wabe; after writing three fairly epic works…

On Such a Full Sea Chang-Rae Lee Riverhead Books Release Date:  January 7, 2014 ISBN…

Of Dogs and Books that Bind It was pretty darned chilly at the off-leash dog…

After learning of my experiences in Russia (as I wrote about in the last few…

One More Thing – Stories and Other Stories B. J. Novak Alfred A. Knopf Release…

Weather Child: The Awakened Epoch, Book One Philippa Ballantine Imagine That! Studios Release Date: March…

This is the third in a series of my reminisces of traveling to Soviet Russia…

In celebration of the paperback release of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, Viking Penguin is…

Hild Nicola Griffith Farrar, Straus and Giroux First Edition:  November 12, 2013 ISBN 978-0-374-28087-1 Seventh…

The Lives of Tao Wesley Chu Angry Robot Release Date:  April 30, 2013 ISBN 978-0-85766-329-0…

This, it turns out, is the second of three Gimblings that recount a trip I…

Little Wolves Thomas Maltman Soho Press, Inc. Release Date:  January 8, 2013 ISBN 978-1-61695-190-0 You…

Author Paolo Bacigalupi (The Windup Girl, Zombie Baseball Beatdown) has once again started a fascinating…

If I take one thing from the Winter Olympics currently taking place in Sochi, Russia,…

Ancillary JusticeAnn LeckieOrbit BooksPublication Date:  October 1, 2013ISBN 978-0-316-24662-0 It’s a brilliant way to keep…

Borrowed Horses Siân Griffiths New Rivers Press Release Date: October 29, 2013 ISBN 978-0-89823-284-4 The…

I pretty much live in awe of folks who can, without aid, quote a great…

The Windup Girl Paulo Bacigalupi Night Shade Books Release Date:  May 1, 2010 ISBN 978-1-59780-158-4…

Fortune’s Pawn Rachel Bach Orbit Books Release Date: November 5, 2013 ISBN: 978-0-316-22111-5 In fiction,…

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master.…

Paolo Bacigalupi is an award winning science fiction writer.  Author of the amazing book, The…

A few days ago, I took the Mighty Belle to a “new” off leash dog…

A Tale for the Time Being  Ruth Ozeki Penguin Books Release Date: December 31, 2013…

Alliance: The Paladin Prophecy Book 2 Mark Frost Random House Release Date:  January 7, 2014…

Oddly Normal: One Family’s Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His…

They’ve promised that dreams can come true –  but forgot to mention that nightmares are…

Vacationland Sarah Stonich University of Minnesota Press Release Date:  March 25, 2013 ISBN 978-0-8166-8766-4 Vacationland…

We all have heard the stories about great works being rejected by publishers.  Many of…

Yesterday, I had to do something that was quite sad – I had to call…

Today is the anniversary of JRR Tolkien’s birth; the Professor would have been 122 –…