Geek Lit Etc.

Gail Carriger takes a break from her Steampunk series with a slightly different take on the werewolf curse in 'Marine Biology.' ...

It's not the young fairy's fault that she was born with an honor debt. Her mother was rescued by a human prince long before she was ...

It's as if Gail Carriger has studied all her life to write her amazing stories, and in some ways she has. A master's in anthropology...

A shadowy presence, and a string of deaths, may doom a young lady's portrait studio in Cindy Spencer Pape's second 'Gaslight Ch...

“Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.”...

The child of a first-generation immigrant finds himself in a unique situation. Raised in a culture separate  from that of his parent, it can...

When last we saw Judge Nugan Bufan Sn, he was perhaps the happiest Judge in the Common Confederation. In a universe thousands of years old, ...

Callie and Jasper get called in by the War Office in JK Coi's 'Broken Promises.' Note:  'Broken Promises' is the s...

A room full of mechanical toys can become quite devious in Mary Robinette Kowal's short story 'Clockwork Chickadee.' Somewh...

Standalone short stories can be difficult to read.  Oftentimes, just as a story begins to pick up and engage the reader, the story comes to ...

A hardware failure shows a deeper web of deception in Mary Robinette Kowal's 'For Want of a Nail.' Of course Rava would be e...

Poor Edwin could never have imagined the consequences building himself a clockwork friend would bring when he created one in Cherie Prie...