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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.08.11 by Lisa2022.08.11

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the Mexican Canadian, best-selling author of numerous books and stories. She is a winner of The World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, and Locus Award. Her books fall into a gap between mainstream literature, historical romance, and … Continue reading →

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.07.18 by Lisa2022.07.18

Becky Chamber’s books have always had a sort of gentleness about them. In The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first book in her Hugo Award winning “Wayfarers” Series, the galactic journey of the Wayfarer spaceship is far … Continue reading →

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We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.07.08 by Lisa2022.07.08

I keep hearing good things about Grady Hendrix, whose novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires was a best-seller and whose guide to ‘70s and ‘80s horror fiction, called Paperbacks from Hell is still a favorite at DreamHaven. … Continue reading →

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A Promising New Manga

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.06.14 by Lisa2022.06.14

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is an ongoing manga series written by Kanehito Yamada and illustrated by Tsukasa Abe, and has recently won several prestigious awards in Japan. The Japanese title is “Sousou no Furiren,” which translates more directly as “Frieren … Continue reading →

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Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.06.07 by Lisa2022.06.07

Iron Widow, by a new Canadian-Chinese author, Xiran Jay Zhao, is one of the nominees for the 2022 Lodestar Award for the best young adult science fiction novel. But there is nothing childish about this book. It burns with the … Continue reading →

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Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovich

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.05.18 by Lisa2022.05.18

My favorite supernatural cop, Detective Constable Peter Grant, is back, in this ninth novel in Ben Aaronivitch’s “Rivers of London” series. He’s still working for the London Metropolitan Police Special Assessment Unit (the one that takes care of the “weird … Continue reading →

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The God of Neverland by Game Ray Martinez

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.05.12 by Lisa2022.05.12

I’ve always been fond of Peter Pan stories, both the retellings of J.M. Barrie’s original story (the Mary Martin musical remains my favorite because . . . nostalgia) and the works that are essentially Peter Pan fanfic (like the book … Continue reading →

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The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.04.26 by Lisa2022.04.26

For those of you who don’t know, “kaiju” is the generic name for those giant monsters who appear in Japanese movies and usually devastate Tokyo. Preserving them is not something that is often considered. Our hero, Jamie Gray, is underemployed … Continue reading →

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The Last Wish by Andrej Sapkowski

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.04.19 by Lisa2022.04.19

The Last Wish is an older book, written in 1993 and translated from Polish by Danusia Stok in 2007. It is the first book in the world-wide franchise surrounding The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia. Before the video games, animations, and … Continue reading →

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Independent Book Store Day!

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.04.14 by Wendy Comeau2022.04.14

On April 23rd, the 2022 Twin Cities Independent Bookstore Passport will be available at your favorite local independent bookstores. Pick it up and spend the week visiting bookstores, getting your passport stamped to activate coupons and qualify you to win … Continue reading →

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The Ideal (Manga) Housewife?

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.03.30 by Lisa2022.03.30

Behind the over-the-top battles and “let’s do our best!” heroes in Japanese manga and anime, there is often a person quietly doing the simple things that keep ordinary chaos at bay. These are things that need to be done, like … Continue reading →

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The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.03.25 by Lisa2022.03.25

This lovely book is the fourth novel by award-winning Minnesota writer Kelly Barnhill. This is perhaps for a younger audience than Barnhill’s The Girl Who Drank the Moon, which won the Newbery Award and the World Fantasy Award in 2017 … Continue reading →

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Dangerous Visions and New Worlds

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.03.02 by Wendy Comeau2022.03.02

Guest post today from Rick! DANGEROUS VISIONS AND NEW WORLDS from editors Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre (PM PRESS) is exactly the sort of trivia-filled science fiction resource I’ve loved since I first encountered Charles Platt’s DREAM MAKERS back in … Continue reading →

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Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.02.18 by Lisa2022.02.26

This book, the first book in the Noumena Series, was published last year. It has slowly been gaining recommendations from the SF community, helped by the recent arrival of the second book, called Truth of the Divine. The first book … Continue reading →

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My Favorite Irreverent Manga

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.02.01 by Lisa2022.02.01

I have a particular fondness for stories that mess around with world religions, particularly if they do so with humor, respect, and insight. Two of my favorites are Saiyuki by Kazuya Minekura and Saint Young Men by Hikaru Nakamura. Saiyuki … Continue reading →

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New Fantasy and Science Fiction from China

DreamHaven Posted on 2022.01.25 by Lisa2022.01.25

English-speaking fans of speculative fiction have been barely aware of the contributions to the genre from China. By the time The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu was translated into English, it had already been widely popular in Asia for … Continue reading →

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