Blog | Eric Hendel

(Cover Artist: Greg Ruth ) I'm at a little bit of a loss for how best to describe  Nnedi Okorafor's  novella  Remote Control , simply because…

(Cover Illustrator: Kieryn Tyler ) My review of  Tim Pratt's  novel  Doors of Sleep   is up now at Strange Horizons.  This was a really fun and t…

(Cover Designer: Jonathan Brush ) There's a deliberately unsettling quality to Hao Jingfang's 2016 novel  Vagabonds,  and I think this derive…

(Cover Artist: Greg Stadnyk) There's something extremely important about  Amal El-Mohtar 's and  Max Gladstone 's 2019 novella  This Is H…

(Cover Artist: Kaitlin Kall ) Despite having loved  Hank Green's  2018 novel  An Absolutely Remarkable Thing , I started the book's sequel, 2…

(Cover Designer: Lauren Panepinto ) My review of N.K. Jemisin's   The City We Became was just posted at Strange Horizons . This novel is a surre…

(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…