Review: The Emergency (November 2025) by George Packer via @fsgbooks.bsky.social
🐷 "A compelling and creative spin on dystopian fiction...a prescient fable." 🧑⚕️ speculativeshelf.com/2025/10/17/r...
17.10.2025 20:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review: Cape Fever (December 2025) by Nadia Davids via @simonbooks.bsky.social
🖼️ "Engaging prose and a mysterious, claustrophobic setting create tremendous suspense in this excellent historical thriller." 🏚️ speculativeshelf.com/2025/10/07/r...
08.10.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review: Sunset at Zero Point (December 2025) by
Simon Stålenhag via @sagapressbooks.bsky.social
☣️ "A cohesive, cinematic story anchored by a compelling sci-fi hook and a tender romance..." 🇸🇪 speculativeshelf.com/2025/10/07/r...
07.10.2025 23:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review: Lightbreakers (November 2025) by @ajagabel.bsky.social
🌵 "Emotionally resonant and deeply felt ... I greatly enjoyed my time with Lightbreakers and found Gabel's prose quite lovely." 🧂 speculativeshelf.com/2025/09/26/r... @riverheadbooks.bsky.social
27.09.2025 00:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interview: An Oral History of Atlantis author Ed Park joins
@speculativeshelf.bsky.social to discuss his short story collection (out today from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social) — on story order, interconnections, and the ever-floundering Buffalo Sabres — speculativeshelf.com/2025/07/29/i...
29.07.2025 15:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review: The Lucky Ride (October 7, 2025) by Yasushi Kitigawa (t. Takami Nieda) 🚖 "I was utterly charmed by this heartwarming tale. What a lovely book." 🚕 speculativeshelf.com/2025/06/07/review-the-lucky-ride/ via @harperonebooks.bsky.social
07.06.2025 21:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review: Sympathy Tower Tokyo (September 2, 2025) by Rie Qudan (t. Jesse Kirkwood) 🗼 "Surreal and conceptually fascinating, but ultimately left me cold" 🏙️ speculativeshelf.com/2025/05/31/r...
31.05.2025 12:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review: Lucky Day (August 12, 2025) by
@chucktingle.bsky.social
🎰 "Tingle’s twisted imagination shines brightest in the breathless sequences of gore and surreal terror...'twas a bloody good time!" 🕳️ speculativeshelf.com/2025/05/17/r...
17.05.2025 20:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review: Chilco (July 2025) by Daniela Catrileo via @fsgbooks.bsky.social 🥀 "Catrileo’s writing is tender and quite lovely – more a breeze than a gale force wind. Subtle yet deeply moving." 🇨🇱 speculativeshelf.com/2025/03/31/r...
01.04.2025 01:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review: Dengue Boy (2025) by Michel Nieva (t. Rahul Bery)
🦟 "This gross, engrossing, and absurd phantasmagoria is a feast for the senses." 🇦🇷 speculativeshelf.com/2025/03/18/r...
19.03.2025 02:49 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Review: An Oral History of Atlantis (July 2025) by Ed Park 📀 "No two stories are alike, yet each delivers Park’s acerbic wit, sharp sense of irony, and keen eye for riffing on the mundanities of everyday life.” 🏝️ speculativeshelf.com/2025/03/10/review-an-oral-history-of-atlantis/
11.03.2025 02:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Review: Weepers (June 2025) by Peter Mendelsund from
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
🥹 "A melancholy and surreal neo-Western about a band of professional mourners who offer their tear-laden eyes to a desiccated world." 😭 speculativeshelf.com/2025/02/25/r...
25.02.2025 16:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review: Written on the Dark (May 2025) by Guy Gavriel Kay (@guygavrielkay.bsky.social) 🌑 "...an engaging and satisfying story that longtime fans of GGK and newcomers alike will certainly enjoy." 💘 speculativeshelf.com/2025/02/13/r... @acebookspub.bsky.social
14.02.2025 13:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review: The Book of Records (May 2025) by Madeleine Thien 🌊 "Thien deftly explores the power of stories and their telling, the transient nature of time and memory, and the permanence of love and connection." 🌊 speculativeshelf.com/2025/01/29/review-the-book-of-records/
29.01.2025 22:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review: Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost (May 2025) by Donald Niedekker (t. Jonathan Reeder) 🗺️ "Such an odd and fascinating premise gives way to a richly imagined, beautifully translated, and appropriately wry tale." ⚓️ speculativeshelf.com/2025/01/21/r... @sandorfpassage.bsky.social
21.01.2025 20:42 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Review: Portalmania: Stories (May 13, 2025) by Debbie Urbanski 🚪 "Urbanski’s prose shines as a compulsively readable beacon, propelling us from one uncanny world to the next." 🪟 speculativeshelf.com/2025/01/10/r... @debbieurbanski.bsky.social @simonbooks.bsky.social
10.01.2025 21:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review: The Country Under Heaven (May 2025) by Frederic S. Durbin 🤠 "Evoking the majesty and grandeur of the Old West, Durbin spins a stirring yarn about the aftershocks of battle and the struggle to overcome what haunts us." 🐎 speculativeshelf.com/2024/12/29/review-the-country-under-heaven/
30.12.2024 13:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review: Exit Zero: Stories (April 22, 2025) by Marie-Helene Bertino 🦄 "Bertino tackles heavy themes like grief, estrangement, divorce, and disconnection with the winning charm and dry wit that made her 2024 novel Beautyland such a standout." ☔️ speculativeshelf.com/2024/12/19/r...
20.12.2024 14:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review: Vanishing World (April 15, 2025) by Sayaka Murata (t. Ginny Tapley Takemori) 👶 "An off-kilter and unsettling page-turner..."🫃 speculativeshelf.com/2024/12/17/r...
17.12.2024 21:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review: A Drop of Corruption (April 1, 2025) by @robertjbennett.bsky.social "Unshackled by the need for extensive world-building, Bennett has room in this sequel to craft a more complex and satisfying mystery, centered around his winning duo of lead characters." speculativeshelf.com/2024/12/12/r...
12.12.2024 15:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1️⃣ OURS by Phillip B. Williams 🏘️
"An absolute masterclass in storytelling. Ours is a tour de force and one of the best novels I’ve read in ages...each and every page is infused with magic, wonder, and heart." 🕰️
speculativeshelf.com/2024/03/12/r... @vikingbooks.bsky.social
28.11.2024 18:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2️⃣ BEAUTYLAND by Marie-Helene Bertino 👽
"Bertino skillfully dissects the alien nature of growing up and the complexities of human existence with dry wit, deadpan observational comedy, and incisive insights into life’s little absurdities." 📠
speculativeshelf.com/2024/02/01/r... @fsgbooks.bsky.social
28.11.2024 18:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
3️⃣ THE OTHER VALLEY by Scott Alexander Howard
"A quiet gem of a novel...Howard takes a unique premise and executes it beautifully – never relying too heavily on his fantastical plot device to convey young Odile’s heartfelt story." ⏪🌄⏩
speculativeshelf.com/2023/08/17/r... @atriabooks.bsky.social
28.11.2024 18:28 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
4️⃣ RAKESFALL by @vajra.me
"Surreal, lyrical, beautiful, haunting – featuring a heady mélange of narrative forms and storytelling styles – Rakesfall is an evocative epic poem of a novel."
speculativeshelf.com/2024/01/26/r... @tordotcom.bsky.social
28.11.2024 18:28 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
5️⃣ CALYPSO by @oliverklangmead.bsky.social 🪐
"A dazzling feat of form and function.
The care in the structuring is evident.
The story itself is compelling and well told." 🌱
speculativeshelf.com/2024/02/29/r... @titanbooks.bsky.social
28.11.2024 18:28 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
6️⃣ THE REPEAT ROOM by Jesse Ball 🪑
"A searing and harrowing portrait of the criminal justice system of a dystopian future. Utterly enthralling and thought-provoking." ⚖️
speculativeshelf.com/2024/02/13/r... @catapultbooks.bsky.social
28.11.2024 18:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
8️⃣ PLAYGROUND by Richard Powers 🌊
"A love letter to the ocean and its hidden depths. Much like The Overstory, Powers employs astounding reverence for one of our most complex and abundant natural resources." 🪸
speculativeshelf.com/2024/09/23/r... @wwnorton.bsky.social
28.11.2024 18:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
9️⃣ SKY FULL OF ELEPHANTS by Cebo Campbell
"A bold, high-concept premise brought into sharp focus by Cebo Campbell’s lively and vibrant prose." 🐘
speculativeshelf.com/2024/03/26/r... @simonbooks.bsky.social
28.11.2024 18:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🔟 IN UNIVERSES by @emnorth.bsky.social
"An absorbing exploration of a kaleidoscopic set of parallel worlds – delving into trauma, grief, and the complexities of healing from our fractures." 🐴
speculativeshelf.com/2024/02/09/r... @harperbooks.bsky.social
28.11.2024 18:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
