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A Half-Built Garden Book Review
Ruthanna Emrys organized some of her future Earth around watershed communities, an idea I find interesting in terms of living in a more custodial, symbiotic relationship with Earth. But wow, Emrys dove deep into the theme of symbiosis both socially and technologically.
An Impossible Thing to Say Book Review
Full of angst and heart, tears and laughter, rhythm and discord, friends and family and conflict, and the power of words no matter the language, Omid shares his unique story of adolescence in a way that inspires not only how to discover and speak your truth.
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Part pop science, part muse for science fiction and other speculative writers, this gem of a book was a quick breeze through the various mass extinction events in Earth’s history, the promise that humans will face one or more of these events, and some hopeful wisdom on how we might weather the worst and survive as a species.
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
I read this book after seeing an interview in which Rachel Maddow said that rises in anti-semitism, other blaming-isms, and political conspiracies are generally always part of an attempt to subvert democracy in favor of authoritarianism or fascism…
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
Not quite on the run, Rosemary Harper flees her family’s infamy in the human colony on Mars by joining the crew of the Wayfarer, a jalopy of a ship that tunnels wormholes through space. Filled with an imaginative galactic cast and a mind-blowing array of everyday tech…
Divergent Mind Thriving in a World that Wasn’t Designed for You
What is normal and who gets to define it are the central questions in Jenara Nerenberg’s Divergent MindThe core of modern society’s “design” that excludes divergent minds are its economic and social systems…
About Kristine
Kristine Madera is a #1 bestselling Amazon author, novelist, hypnotherapist, and pro-topian with a passion for helping people better themselves and the world. Informed by global travel, teaching abroad, and a stint as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Kristine believes that everyone plays a part in imagining and creating our collective future.
Volunteering at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Calcutta inspired her novel, God in Drag. She birthed her upcoming novel, The Snakeman’s Wife, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Papua New Guinea.
Read the first chapter of God in Drag HERE
