Alex Lubertozzi’s science fiction novel "Any Other World Will Do" presents an alien vision of Earth’s possible future. It’s a send-up of the genre that wraps its earnest... Read More

Set in the roiling, corrupt world of an 1829 prison colony, Andrei Baltakmens’s "A Hangman for Ghosts" is a historical mystery that brings regency-era Australia to life.... Read More

A tightly written mystery set within a whirlwind promenade through the world of fine art, as seen through the eyes of a museum fund-raiser. A celadon funerary jar, ancient and... Read More

When it comes to the cultural revolution of the ’60s and ‘70s, the hippies get the lion’s share of attention. However, it was the Beat Generation of the ’50s that... Read More

How can one not like characters who are “encumbered by education and no fortune,” or who, when asked if they are drunk, describe their condition as being “a little short... Read More

Talk about a cold case! Here’s a fictional one that dates back to the early days of the American Civil War. Naturally—or, more accurately, supernaturally—the only... Read More