10 Novels to Read after the Handmaids Tale
Margaret Atwood’s classic novel A Handmaid’s Tale was thrust back into the spotlight when Hulu released a television series adapting the novel. While it took some liberties here and there, the series has been doing an amazing job of bringing Atwood’s patriarchal world of Gilead to life. The first season ended on a bit of […]
Keep Reading...A Brief History of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
What is it about the end of the world that fascinates us? Why are we drawn to these dark stories of apocalyptic chaos? Maybe it’s because we always wonder: What happens next? If the world as we know it collapses, if governments and civilizations fall, if a new ice age dawns or entire swaths of […]
Keep Reading...LitRPG is not Cyberpunk.
Recently, I moderated a panel at a local Denver area Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention. This panel was all about Cyberpunk and the newly emerging genre called litRPG. In a way, it made sense to pair these two things together; after all, if you pull up the Cyberpunk top 100 board on Amazon, you’ll likely […]
Keep Reading...China Miéville Reading Guide
Where to begin with China Miéville, SFF’s strangest and most thrilling imagination… Wil Kenney China Miéville towers at the overlapping edges of a half- dozen genres. An industry presence that demands attention and, in the same token, intimidates first-timers. How many countless words get written on this guy every year? Yet what nearly every analysis […]
Keep Reading...Review of Survival Quest: Way of the Shaman (Book One)
Survival Quest (The Way of the Shama: Book 1) by Vasily Mahanenko. This post is a spoiler-free writeup. For a complete understanding of how I review media, please see my full Review Policy. Recap & Brief Synopsis Survival Quest is the story of Daniel Mahan, an IT security specialist that works full-time as a […]
Keep Reading...Review of Eden’s Gate: The Reborn (Book One)
Eden’s Gate: The Reborn (Book 1) by Edward Brody. I do my best to keep these reviews spoiler-free. The worst you’ll find here is a mild hint. My reason for writing “reviews” the way I do is very specific. Anyone curious can find more information in my official Review Policy post. Recap & Brief Synopsis […]
Keep Reading...Review of Awaken Online: Catharsis Book One
Travis Bagwell, a full-time lawyer and writer extraordinaire, is easily one of the most beloved litRPG authors working today. Though he only has two books currently available—Awaken Online: Catharsis and the follow-up Awaken Online: Precipice—the hundreds of five-star reviews on his books says a lot about the series as a whole. Before dipping my toes […]
Keep Reading...Review of Hell to Pay (An Ascend Online Adventure Book One)
I enjoyed this book tremendously. As someone who works in the gaming industry, I tend to have a hard time reading things in the up-and-coming LitRPG genre. Many of the books in this genre have fundamental flaws in their premise that stretch plausibility too far for me to suspend my disbelief. Some of these problems […]
Keep Reading...Review of Reboot: An Epic LitRPG (Afterlife Online Book One)
Tad Lonnerman is a developer for a small-time studio that gets acquired by the soulless mega-corporation Kablammy Games. After a couple of years of steady career progress, he has a major setback that changes the course of his life. He dies in a car accident.
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