Best books I’ve read 2023

2023 reviewed.

Review: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Spartacus meets Never Let Me Go.

Review: Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn

Amusing, playful and inventive short stories.

Review: This All Come Back Now (edited by Mykaela Saunders)

A spectacular anthology of First Nations spec fic.

Review: White Noise by Don DeLillo

A bracing dose of retro-strangeness.

Review: Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler

An eerily prescient vision of the climate-ruined near future.

Review: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

There are a lot of feelings in Mary Shelley’s cautionary tale of science run amuck, but her depiction of nature in all its untrammelled grandeur is still something to behold.