Alex Brown
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San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States
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Notable Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2022
Hundreds of young adult science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels make their way through the traditional publishing industry every year. Fantasy, of course, takes the biggest chunk of the market,… → Read More
New Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror for May & June 2022
It’s time once more for me to share some of the upcoming young adult science fiction, fantasy, and horror I’m most excited about. May and June are bringing in a lot of fantasy, as per usual, but wi… → Read More
Anti-Doorstoppers: 10 Great SFF Novellas and Novelettes
Did you know that thousands of speculative fiction books are published every year? Did you also know that although most are in the 300-400 page range, books can be as hefty as a doorstopper or as b… → Read More
A Nostalgic SFF Playlist for the Stressed Out Millennial
In the spring of 2020, I was desperately attempting to stay the covid doldrums by binge watching movies from my childhood. It was lockdown and I couldn’t go to work, couldn’t visit family and frien… → Read More
New Young Adult SFF for January & February 2022
A new year brings a new crop of young adult science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels…as well as a bunch that were delayed to supply chain/covid/general hellscape issues. Lots of time travel, his… → Read More
Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for December 2021
December 2021 brought a plethora of great short science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories to my inbox. Judging by the stories that ended up on my spotlight this month, I went on an environmental… → Read More
Best Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2021
With more than 300 young adult speculative fiction novels and graphic novels traditionally published in 2021, putting together a Best Of list is a massive undertaking. After weeks of hemming and ha… → Read More
Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for November 2021
November is a weird month. The beautiful fall colors of October are gone, but the crisp bite of December has yet to arrive. Things are coming due and end of year lists are being made, as if there i… → Read More
Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for September 2021
If the following ten short science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories are any indication, September was a month that was all over the place for me in terms of content and emotions. All chaos, no … → Read More
Anti-Doorstoppers: Ten Great SFF Novellas and Novelettes
Did you know that thousands of speculative fiction books are published every year? Did you also know that although most are in the 300-400 page range, books can be as hefty as a doorstopper or as b… → Read More
Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction: August 2021
In August, I was in the mood for stories with teeth, stories with characters who refused to settle for less than what they are owed, stories that looked at trite endings and said, “No thanks, I’ll … → Read More
Anti-Doorstoppers: 10 Great SFF Novellas and Novelettes
Did you know that thousands of speculative fiction books are published every year? Did you also know that although most are in the 300-400 page range, books can be as hefty as a doorstopper or as b… → Read More
Death, the Dead, and the Undead: New Young Adult SFF for July and August 2021
As I write this, the air conditioner is on full blast, I have an ice cold glass of water sweating all over a coaster, and my pets have melted into furry puddles. It’s a thousand degrees outside and… → Read More
Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction: June 2021
The days are longer and longer and the sun burns hotter and hotter. It’s summertime in the northern hemisphere, and where I live that means hiding in the shade as the heat bakes everything into obl… → Read More
Best Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2020
“Best Of” lists are so hard to create! I lost count as to how many times I added and removed and added back in books, paring down an original list that was absolutely massive to just thirty. They c… → Read More
“We Are Each Other’s Harvest”: Akwaeke Emezi’s Pet
Before Jam was born, the world went to war. Not against each other but against monsters, people who did terrible things to others and those who permitted them to operate. A few people, later called… → Read More
Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction: January 2020
From life-altering arithmetic to myths made real, from cannibal butchers to mechanical surgeons, from fading romance to self-discovery, January was a strong month for speculative short fiction. Her… → Read More
The Iron Will of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee Hits Hard and Fast
Genie Lo is an overachieving, academically focused senior at a college prep school in San Francisco. She’s also the Shouhushen and Divine Guardian of the Protectorate of California on Earth. Yeah, … → Read More
Best Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2019
This was an awesome year for young adult speculative fiction. It feels like a metric ton of YA was published this year, and most of it hovered somewhere between “so good” and “I’m dying from the gr… → Read More
A Jolt of Power: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Galaxy “Alex” Stern sees ghosts. Bloody, blown open, broken, they look as they did at the moment of their deaths. Drugs mute their effects, but at a high price. After she’s found by the police as t… → Read More