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by Scotto Moore Isobel is the undisputed “Queen of Sparkle Dungeon” largely due to her diva-spellcasting. . . That is: in this disco-themed, VR game-world, spells are cast and enemies vanquished via the singing of complex vocal tones and rhythms. Isobel’s aptitude and standing at the top of the leaderboard earn her a recruitment call from […]

by Min Jin Lee I recently read the book Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. It’s a multigenerational story focusing on the life of a Korean woman, Sunja. Sunja grows up in the period of Japanese occupation in Korea and paints life in the time in great detail. It also talks about the lives of her

by Dan Jones As someone who often thought, through my formative years, that I was born in the wrong age, and should have been allowed to grow up swinging a sword or war-hammer and charging another armored idiot on horseback with a shield and a lance, Dan Jones’ Power and Thrones was both an engrossing

By Becky Chambers Simple, quiet little story in which not much happens, but satisfying like a good dessert. In some far distant future/planet humans live in balance with nature after all machines and robots took into their heads to leave the human world and live apart in the wilderness. Its not clear how this utopian

Lulu Miller’s ‘Why Fish Don’t Exist’ is part memoir, part biography, and also social history. More importantly it’s a philosophical meditation on courage and perseverance in the face of the howling chaos of the universe and the human condition. Miller picks up the story of David Starr Jordan, a 19th century taxonomist obsessed with labeling