This is yet another entry I found in a “Best Steampunk Books” list that didn’t actually fit the genre. 14 , appropriately published in 2014, is a sci-fi mystery centered on a hundred-year-old apartment building in Los Angeles and the eccentric tenants that inhabit it. The main character is Nate, a thirty-something single guy who […]
In 2008, when Twilight hit the big screen, vampire stories were everywhere. I was getting pretty sick of them. Even publishers wouldn’t buy vampire books. Yet the vampire legend, like the creatures that people it, refuses to die. The Japanese are just as intrigued with the concept and have produced several vampire series in anime […]
In June of 2012, a sensation hit the Internet – a story-type podcast called Welcome to Nightvale. Created by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink, it featured a small Southwestern town where the bizarre is an everyday occurrence. It was a huge hit among millennials, and I found it amusing as well. This wasn’t, however, their […]
