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March 10
Book: The End of All Things
Humans expanded into space...only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. It was a good arrangement...for the Colonial Union. Then the Earth said: no more.
Written by MeFi's own jscalzi. [more inside]
March 3
Book: The Human Division
Following the events of The Last Colony, John Scalzi tells the story of the fight to maintain the unity of the human race.
Written by MeFi's own jscalzi. [more inside]
March 2
Book: Tangles: A Story of Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me
Graphic memoir by Sarah Leavitt about her mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's dementia aged 52. There's an article by Leavitt where she writes about her sparse drawing style. An academic essay by Jane Tolmie talks about the "cross-connections between caregiving, the politics of queer resistance, and mother-daughter closeness" in the book. There is a review at Graphic Medicine, another by Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian, and a less positive one by Fran Slater at bookmunch. In 2024 an animated film of the book was announced.
February 24
Book: Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch
Janet is sad all the time and fine with it, but her family is not. After years of resisting medication, she finally gives in and agrees to try a newly released drug – one that’s specifically designed to make you happy, but just for the holidays. [more inside]
Book: Zoe's Tale
How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?
Written by MeFi's own jscalzi. [more inside]
February 23
Book: Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon by Matt Dinniman
Fantasy meets horror in this gore-soaked, standalone LitRPG adventure!
It had seemed like a dream offer. Paint a mural. $15,000. How could Duke not jump at the chance?
But it came with a catch, as these things often do. He had to first see what his client wanted him to paint.
A private server. A digital playground. An alliance of the world’s most sadistic, most depraved minds. A place to bring their prey, to hone their skills. [more inside]
February 18
Book: Never A Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren
For a time, Nelson Algren was America's most famous author, lauded by the likes of Richard Wright and Ernest Hemingway. But at the height of his career, he abandoned fiction and fell into obscurity. Colin Asher's sublime biography of Algren unravels the enigma of his disappearance, explores the richness of his novels and nonfiction writing, and explains how a rash creative decision may have led his enemies to denounce him to the FBI during the Red Scare. [more inside]
February 17
Book: The Last Colony
Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up.
Written by MeFi's own jscalzi. [more inside]
February 10
Book: The Ghost Brigades
The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal human qualms.
Written by MeFi's own jscalzi. [more inside]
February 3
Book: 2025: Mandate for Leadership
The most influential book of 2025 is the Heritage Foundation's 2025: Mandate for Leadership. [more inside]
Book: Old Man's War
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.
Written by MeFi's own jscalzi. [more inside]
February 2
Book: Diavola by Jennifer Thorne
The black sheep of her family, Anna is reluctant to join them on a vacation to a remote villa in Monteperso. The gathering begins with the usual snide jabs and not-so-veiled criticisms, but when strange things begin to happen at the villa, it seems there’s more to fear than the usual family drama. [more inside]
January 31
Book: The You You Are by Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD
Available for free on Apple Books, in both text and audiobook versions. The audiobook is read by Michael Chernus. [more inside]
January 30
Book: Chain-Gang All-Stars
The thrilling debut novel from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. [more inside]
January 23
Book: American Rapture by C. J. Leede
A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. [more inside]
January 12
Book: Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East
An intimate and illuminating account of queer lives and migration, homemaking and community in the Gulf. Upon moving to the Gulf States - where penalties for queer acts include deportation, imprisonment, torture and death - Gaar Adams wants to understand why LGBTQ+ migrants might choose to live amid such peril.
Book: Queer London
Queer London is a timely and accessible introduction to the city through a LGBTQ+ lens, and will appeal to anyone with an interest in London's thriving queer landscape.
Celebrating the diversity and innovation of queer individuals in London, both historically and today, Queer London features a range of bars, clubs, shops, Pride events, charities, community organisations, saunas and sex shops that cater to the LGBTQ community. [more inside]
January 10
Book: Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories
Queer people have always found ways to exist and be together, and there will always be a need for queer spaces. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell have gathered together a community of contributors to share stories of spaces that range from the educational to the institutional to the re-appropriated, and many more besides.
Book: The Queer Film Guide
100 great movies that tell LGBTQIA+ stories: Have you noticed something about every “100 Greatest Movies Ever Made” list? The people in those movies . . . they’re almost all straight, white men. With so much incredible cinema to choose from, those lists only begin to peer into the cinematic and wider world.
It’s time to push past the gatekeepers of what makes a movie “great” or “culturally significant” and get a broader view of what’s out there. Kyle Turner has selected 100 of cinema’s greatest queer films that are often overlooked but foundational to the art form and the wider culture.
January 9
Book: I Contain Multitudes
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Many people think of microbes as germs to be eradicated, but those that live with us-the microbiome -build our bodies, protect our health, shape our identities, and grant us incredible abilities. In this astonishing book, Ed Yong takes us on a grand tour through our microbial partners, and introduces us to the scientists on the front lines of discovery.