Christian P. Haines

Dec 2, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Christian P. Haines |Aishwarya Subramanian |Dan Hartland |Paul Kincaid

Jeff VanderMeer’s new novel, Absolution, frustrates. It pokes and prods. It needles. It absolves nothing. If anything, Absolution intensifies the mysteries of Area X and the Southern Reach, as if the series’ preceding novels (to which this is a prequel) were a nest of coiled intestines, not a trilogy with a beginning, middle, and end.

Aug 12, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Christian P. Haines |Alicia Hilton |Sonya Taaffe |Jamie Boyd

Usually, the Anthropocene gives off dystopian vibes, conjuring up images of extreme weather, spreading forest fires, and disappearing coastlines. But Robin Sloan dismisses this vision of catastrophe in the very first paragraph of Moonbound: “Success came first! Wicked problems finally put to rest.

Aug 1, 2024 | publicbooks.org | Christian P. Haines |Charlotte Rosen

I dive from a floating island, a hunk of granite suspended in the sky, drenched in golden sunlight, green and gold leaves to match. As I dive, the first thing I see are clouds drifting below me. As I fall, I begin to make out towers and towns, shrines and ponds. I don’t have a parachute or a glider, so I aim for a pond, splashing into it with a satisfying kerplunk. Drops of water rain down as I emerge from the water to stand on terra firma.

Jul 22, 2024 | reactormag.com | Christian P. Haines

Adrian Czajkowski (Tchaikovsky) moves between genres as easily as a spider weaves its web. Hard science fiction (the Children of Time books), space opera (the Final Architecture trilogy), epic fantasy (the Shadows of the Apt series), dystopia (Ogres, Firewalkers), dying earth fiction (Cage of Souls), military sci-fi (Dogs of War)—the list goes on. Tchaikovsky has published more than 30 books in the last 15 years.