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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Review
…the characters and their interactions and complications seem so much like they might in real life, which is to say messy and somewhat dysfunctional yet redeeming in a quiet way.
Book Review: The Heart Goes Last
The best speculative, like Atwood, take a modern trend or problem and spin it out to an extreme “solution” that serves as a social commentary enlightening readers about the absurdity of how we have acclimated to the seeds of absurdity…
Book Review: Parable of the Sower
Woven through Parable of the Sower is a hopeful thread that something better is possible and out there if we are brave enough, crafty enough, and compassionate enough to follow its tug…
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson Book Review
Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock is a speculative fiction romp through what might happen if climate change got bad enough for private actors and small countries to go rogue with geoengineering tactics—in this case shooting sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere—to slow the impacts of global warming. What could go wrong?
Wild Things
Whenever we go for a hike in the woods, my husband carries a stick that he claims is for taming a bear. Wisely, the bears have steered clear, but the gleam in his eye…
The Ministry for the Future
The Ministry for the Future reads like modern life—a few narrative threads interspersed with breaking news, social media feeds, sudden technological breakthroughs, secret intrigue, and random acts of terror…
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
