by Kristine Madera | Feb 27, 2024 | Blog, Book Review, Building Protopia
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys Book Review by Kristine Madera I picked up this book because speculative writer Ruthanna Emrys organized some of her future Earth around watershed communities, an idea I find interesting in terms of living in a more...
by Kristine Madera | Feb 6, 2024 | Blog, Book Review, Building Protopia
Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz Book Review by Kristine Madera Part pop science, part muse for science fiction and other speculative writers, this gem of a book was a quick breeze through the various...
by Kristine Madera | Jan 16, 2024 | Blog, Book Review, Building Protopia, New Earth Solutions
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Book Review by Kristine Madera 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...
by Kristine Madera | Jan 9, 2024 | Blog, Book Review, Building Protopia
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You by Jenara Nerenberg Book Review by Kristine Madera What is normal and who gets to define it are the central questions in Jenara Nerenberg’s Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t...
by Kristine Madera | Nov 7, 2023 | Blog, Book Review, Building Protopia
The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston Book Review by Kristine Madera I found this while looking for the latest book by Richard Preston, whose true epidemiological tales read like thriller fiction. In a similar vein, Douglas Preston is a novelist,...
