I read speculative fiction. For fun, for escape, for novelty, for intrigue. I've had the pleasure of guest lecturing at a couple of UCLA library school classes on the topic a few years back...and the history of speculative fiction goes back to the renaissance...maybe further. At it's inception, speculative fiction is what storytellers used to wonder about that other land, that other culture. What if we were there? What are THEY like? The whole idea that life is lived differently somewhere else intrigues us and makes for stories that surprise us. And what started as stories about people living on the other side of the mountain or across the water has become stories about beings who live in another reality or across space.
As a professional librarian with the responsibility to build a quality collection for a voraciously reading public, I have the generous opportunity to see many forthcoming books as galleys (also known as advanced reader copies or ARCs.) It's a pleasure to offer up a sneak peek of things to watch for.
My promise to you is to review pre-publication books which I
1) actually read all the way through and
2) liked in some way(s).
I may also list titles of galleys I'm looking at. Since I work full time +, I may have perfectly good galleys that I just don't have time to read in any given month--so please don't take a lack of review as bad...it just may be unlucky timing.
D.
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