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Gyo: Complete Deluxe Edition
The horror of this seinen manga begins when Tadashi, a young Japanese man, and Kaori, his girlfriend with an ultra-sensitive nose, begin to smell the creeping stench of death as...
Posted by Book Rex on August 9, 2017
Ready Player One
Wade Watts lives in “the stacks”, a trailer park where homes are stacked one atop another in high-rise slums. Set in the near-future where an energy crisis has rendered the...
Posted by Book Rex on July 19, 2017
The Unbelievable Gwenpool Volume 1: Believe It
What if you suddenly found yourself in the Marvel Comic Universe? Gwen Poole, a normal, comic-book-loving girl from our universe found herself in just such a predicament. So what’s a...
Posted by Book Rex on July 18, 2017
The Last Kids on Earth
The monster apocalypse has begun in 13-year old Jack Sullivan’s town, and he is holed up in his tricked-out treehouse, protected by a moat and catapults. He’s resourceful and has...
Posted by Adrian L. on July 13, 2017
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Falling prey once again to the DC comics bug after seeing Wonder Woman, I picked up Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Opening with a Bruce Wayne seemingly at the end...
Posted by Book Rex on June 26, 2017
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Dystopias and grimdark grittiness got you down? The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is the cozy-yet-farflung, hopeful antidote to gloomy (science) fiction. Rosemary Harper is the latest addition...
Posted by Kerry B. on May 15, 2017
The Iron Ship
The Kressind siblings are quite the bunch. Engineer Trassan is building the world’s first iron ship, powered by both magic and technology, in order to reach the southern icelands, excavate an...
Dark Matter
Dark matter is a fast-paced scifi thriller that riffs on the idea of multiple universes, exploring the unknown territory of choices not made and roads not taken. In this world,...
Posted by Kerry B. on March 20, 2017
The Arrival of Missives
Wedding science fiction with literary fiction in a post-WWI setting, The Arrival of Missives is a unique and enjoyable coming of age story. Shirley Fearn is seventeen and has it...
Posted by Kerry B. on January 25, 2017
Company Town
New Arcadia is a city in transition. Perched atop a ruined oil rig in the Atlantic, the city has just been acquired by the wealthy industrialist Zacharias Lynch, who plans...
Posted by Kerry B. on December 20, 2016
The Aeronaut’s Windlass
Captain Francis Grimm, commander of the merchant ship Predator, is running out of options. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, one of the large, floating sanctuaries of humanity, he has taken...
Aquaman: The Trench
Something stirs in the Mariana Trench. Something old, mysterious, and… hungry. Aquaman will face a menacing new threat, the carnivorous race known as The Trench. Aquaman has retreated from Atlantean...
Posted by Alex C. on September 16, 2016