Blog | Eric Hendel

(Cover Artist: Kaitlin Kall ) One of the most unusual things about Hank Green's 2018 novel An Absolutely Remarkable Thing  is that the book is n…

(Cover Designer: Tyler Comrie ) Yoko Ogawa's 1994 novel The Memory Police  is unusual in part for how subtle the book's premise is. First tra…

John Scalzi's satirical 2012 science fiction novel Redshirts is the sort of book whose premise has a tendency to obscure its depth. The plot of …

(Cover Artist: Rob Wilson ) Quick disclaimer: While  what follows is my honest opinion of this novel,  this review is of an Advanced Reader Copy of t…

(Cover Artist: Sigrid Estrada ) One of the things that makes Banana Yoshimoto's 1988 novella  Kitchen  so unique is how approachable the story is…

(Cover Artist: Erika Meltzer O’Rourke) It may seem strange to say that  Philip Pullman's   His Dark Materials Trilogy  is a series whose politica…

(Cover Artist: Peter Lutjen) I don't mean it as a bad thing when I say that the plot of  John Scalzi's  2014 novel  Lock In  outwardly resemb…

The most striking quality of the stories appearing in Ted Chiang's anthology Arrival  (which was originally published in 2002 under the title  S…

(Cover Artist: Raphael Lacoste ) There's a part of me that wants to recommend  Paolo Bacigalupi's  Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel  The W…

(Cover Artist: Rebecca Guay ) Out of all of the books in the Earthsea series, Tehanu is often characterized as the point where  Le Guin  undertook th…

(Cover Artist: The Leonheardt Group) Some books end up succeeding not necessarily by the skill with which they were written, but instead the dedicati…

(Cover Artist: Douglas Smith ) It's very easy to poke fun at religion, and that's paradoxically why it's usually a good idea not to. All …

(Cover Artist: Howard Lyon ) There's a story that appears midway through  Mary Robinette Kowal's  short fiction anthology  Word Puppets  whic…