Blog

When the apocalypse comes, I plan to be ready. I’ve got my disaster kit, I’ve spent time staring out my window plotting escape routes, and most importantly, I’ve read all of these apocalypse-themed books, so I’ll know what to do (and what not to do) when the cyborg armies invade. You can do your part by studying these helpfully bleak sci-fi novels, too. End-of-the-world preparedness has never been so fun! For Darkness Shows the Stars Author: Diana Peterfreund In this inventive sci-fi retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, a disastrous genetic experiment gone wrong caused an apocalypse (Austenpocalypse?) known as the [...]

Halloween is just around the corner, and it’s a perfect excuse to terrify yourself with some dark, creepy, and downright homicidal reading! Plop a bowl full of candy on the porch, turn out the lights, and get in the spirit with these ghoulish novels. (For a suitably spooky treat, try baking Bloody Glass cupcakes.) Drought Author: Graham Masterton In our daily world, we fear politics, power, and pestilence. Chillingly accurate to our time and place in history, Drought combines horror with the realism of political intrigue and a background conspiracy theory mastered by a reverse Robin Hood (kill the poor [...]