Book Review
The Epic of Chakramire
by Ryan Prado
Concentrated on deceptions, doublespeak, and rhetorical loop-de-loops, "The Epic of Chakramire" is an ambitious prose poem whose characters reveal their truths in thick, captivating verses. The evolutions of life on Earth, technology,...
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The Bargain Shopper
by Ryan Prado
In the rollicking postmodern novel "The Bargain Shopper", a cynical blue blood of reduced means waxes philosophical on the state of America. The tribulations, manifestos, and introspection of an aging, technology-adverse narcissist frame...
Book Review
Tripping Toward Mars
by Ryan Prado
Love, against all odds, emerges as the prevailing factor of a space colonization mission’s success in the satirical science fiction novel "Tripping Toward Mars". An international race to reach and colonize Mars is backdropped by...
Book Review
Those We Carry
by Ryan Prado
"Those We Carry" is a tragic, triumphant novel about wartime love. Perseverance despite a tragic past leads a budding hero into the horrors and humility of World War II, and eventually to love, in Scott Saxberg’s novel "Those We...
Book Review
A Boy's Guide to Outer Space
by Ryan Prado
The malaise of a small New England town in the 1960s is given an undercurrent of the infinite in Peter Selgin’s inspired novel A Boy’s Guide to Outer Space. Half is a junior high school student with a mentally ill stepbrother, a hat...
Book Review
Olivia
by Ryan Prado
An edifying, lesson-filled historical novel, "Olivia" focuses on a girl’s efforts to make her community an equitable one. Covering a decades-long path toward social equality, Alejandro Benavides’s inspired historical novel "Olivia"...
Book Review
AWE
by Ryan Prado
Grounding its speculative elements in contemporary concerns, the technothriller "AWE" devotes focus to the myriad social and political hurdles that scientists face when it comes to persuading the world of their truths. Climate...
Book Review
The Diapause
by Ryan Prado
"The Diapause", Andrew Forbes’s speculative fiction treatise on a postplague world, is both a grim look at the dark side of survivalist psychosis and a heartbreaking love letter to the disappearing worlds around us. Gabe is an only...