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1 day ago · Oliver K Langmead combines science fiction with poetry to deliver a fresh and thought-provoking take on the genre. Just when you think you have come across every possible version and trope of the generation-ship (taking hundreds of years to take colonists to a new planet) subgenre of science fiction, along comes a book like Calypso by Oliver K ...
5 days ago · The best spy novelists actively writing today. More demanding readers with a taste for the spy genre have followed the career of the late John le Carré (1931-2020), whose 30 widely-read novels spanned the five decades from 1961 to 2021. And Le Carré’s many disciples are hard at work today, turning out spy fiction that is solidly based on ...
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5 days ago · The Trinity Six by Charles Cumming (2011) 421 pages ★★★★★ – A stellar new spy story by Charles Cumming. Much of the latter-day literature of espionage is based, directly or indirectly, on the notorious Cambridge Five—young, bright Cambridge men seduced by the lure of Communism as undergraduates during the tumultuous 1930s who spied for the Soviet Union during World War II.
[Personalized greeting, explaining why I queried the agent based on genre/specific interests.] FURTHER OF ARTHUR FOR TIME is a literary fiction novel of 100,000 words. The contents and themes of the book may interest fans of religious fiction, as well as crossover fans between fantasy and literary fiction.
17 hours ago · Poetry has been, for many centuries, an expression of human emotions, experiences and moments, made tangible in words. Though it has several forms, and hence several interpretations, it remains one of the most profound genres of literature, as it has been for centuries. The definition for poetry varies depending on who is asked, and the ...
17 hours ago · But at the same time, during the 1920s, 30s and 40s, modern poetry was often the very opposite — complex, obscure, difficult. The words themselves are a mystery. The poetry and detective fiction were written in the same period but they seem to be worlds apart. And yet some of those poets were at home in both of these literary worlds.
3 days ago · Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
