B Reviews / Book ReviewsAnthology / Asian characters / Australia / Contemporary / Historical / Hong Kong / India / Indian characters / LGBTQIA characters / LGBTQIA romance / POC / POC author / short stories / South-Asian / Time-Travel / USA2 Comments
Even time travel can’t unravel love Anthology of inclusive tales of people through time looking for one another and for ways for the world to be better. Time-travel is a way for writers to play with history and imagine different futures – for better, or worse. When romance is thrown ... more >
Book Reviews / ConversationsOutlander / Romance genre / SFF / Time-Travel / tropes23 Comments
Our conversation on time travel continues with a question from Sirius about Outlander and our list of book recommendations and books to avoid. -Janine Outlander Sirius: Outlander (because I had to ask) – what are your takes on it and do you like how time travel was implemented ... more >
Conversationsbook discussion / book plots / Movies / Romance genre / SFF / Time-Travel / tropes31 Comments
Sirius had some questions for us—and you—about time travel stories. This discussion will run in two parts, with today’s focusing on the questions below and Monday’s reserved for discussing Outlander and for our book recommendations. -Janine Sirius: So this is one of my favorite topics in SFF. I have been ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1910s / Emily St. John Mandel / future / investigation / joint review / Literary fiction / lunar colony / moon / mystery / New York City / nonlinear timeline / Pandemic / Speculative-Fiction / Time-Travel / Vancouver Island19 Comments
Janine: Jennie and I loved Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel’s breakout novel (Jennie even caught up on one or two earlier books by the author), so we reviewed her follow up, The Glass Hotel, together. When we heard she had a new book, Sea of Tranquility, we decided to ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsArtists / dual-timeline / friendship / LGBTQIA characters / middle grade / Rome / time slip / Time-Travel2 Comments
Two unlikely friends—Federico, in sixteenth-century Rome, and Bee, in present-day New Jersey—are linked through an amiable cat, Leonardo Da Vinci’s mysterious wardrobe, and an eerily perfect sketch of Bee. Newbery Honor author Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Da Vinci’s Cat is a thrilling, time-slip fantasy about rewriting history to save the present. ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsarranged-marriage / dystopian / First-Person / Humor / Science Fiction / Time-Travel2 Comments
Welcome to the end of time. It’s a perfect day. Nobody remembers how the Causality War started. Really, there’s no-one to remember, and nothing for them to remember if there were; that’s sort of the point. We were time warriors, and we broke time. I was the one who ended ... more >