Tag: science fiction

Broken Skies

This shows the cover of Theresa Kay's Broken Skies--where a girl walks off into a golden cloud or explosive plume.

Theresa Kay’s Broken Skies is a young adult science fiction novel about Jax, a traumatized young woman, living in a post-apocalyptic world. Disease has decimated the human population, and aliens […]

Beyond

Beyond by M.C. Winkkle on a cell phone. On the cover: A girl in silhouette stands atop hills in front of a colorful starry sky.

Beyond by M. C. Winkkle is a young adult science fiction book. It stars Stella, a young woman who is being held captive as an alien spy. However, Stella’s no […]

Binti

A library copy of Binti floats over Earth as if the book is in space. On the cover, a brown-skinned woman marks patterns in an orangish red on her face.

I picked this up from the library after a friend recommended it on Goodreads, and it’s every bit as good as she said it was. I’m probably going to want […]

Cinder

A paperback copy of Cinder rests on a red poster tube. On the cover, a woman's leg in a red pump has mechanical parts showing through the skin.

My fourteen-year old has been begging me to read this one for at least a year now–and it’s spectacular. I love the world-building. Everything from Cinder’s cyborg parts to her […]