Karen Lord

Aug 30, 2024 | panmacmillan.com | David Green |Karen Lord |Philip K. Dick |Jeremy Robinson

What is science fiction? 'That branch of literature which deals with the reaction of human beings to changes in science and technology,' according to prolific sci-fi writer, Isaac Asimov. Science fiction offers creative takes on real or speculative science and technology through its settings, themes, and plot. Is sci-fi different from fantasy?

Apr 17, 2024 | panmacmillan.com | Karen Lord |Jackie Lau |Zen Cho

From the renowned, award-winning author Zen Cho comes a delightfully funny romance about family, class, and love in modern London. From the outside, Renee Goh’s life looks perfect. She’s thirty and beautiful, runs a glamorous—and profitable—women’s clothing company in London, and is dating a hot Taiwanese pop star. But Renee is lonely. Estranged from her family in Singapore, she practically lives at the office, and now she’s just been dumped by her supposed boyfriend.

Apr 12, 2024 | womensprize.com | Karen Lord |Nay Assassa

Quite literally takes a knife to climate change and opens up what humanity is going to look like in thefuture. The Blue, Beautiful Worldby Karen Lord Find out more Describe your book in one sentence as if you were telling a friend. First Contact scenario, but we’re the lesser aliens–ignorant, barbarous, socially fragmented, and neurologically challenged–and greater powers are already fighting over our resources and our sovereignty. What inspired you to write your novel?

Mar 6, 2024 | readings.com.au | Maya Binyam |Karen Lord |Aube Rey Lescure

The longlist for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced! The Women’s Prize for Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world. The winner receives a cheque for £30,000 and a limited edition bronze figurine known as a ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven. Both are anonymously endowed. Below are the sixteen longlisted books.

Aug 29, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Karen Lord |Max Brooks

A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Awards & Accolades Likes 100 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006). A zombie apocalypse is one thing.