September Readalikes: Two Worlds at Once

 

Patrick Ness's new novel, More Than This, comes out on September 10.  Explore more uncanny places in this month's readalikes.

September Readalikes: Two Worlds at Once

 

Patrick Ness's new novel, More Than This, comes out on September 10.  Explore more uncanny places in this month's readalikes.

Iron Man 3, Embarrassing Stories and Book Trailer News

• I must have been living under a rock not to realize that Iron Man 3 is in theaters tomorrow.  Luckily I can catch up on all things Tony Stark over at Marvel's Iron Man news page.  Now I am stoked to see Pepper Potts in the suit!

• That time when you had to read in front of the class and said "breasts" instead of "breath"?  Don't worry, we've all been there -- in real life and in fiction.

• Suzanne Young's new book, The Program, is getting a lot of buzz!  It's comforting to know that in the dystopian future that lies ahead, at least our hair will be perfect.

• It chills my blood just thinking about Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave. They are making short trailers for each of the "waves"; this is the first one.

• I think the trailer for Julie Kagawa's The Eternity Cure is stylish, despite the foghorn meme.

• And our last video is an invitation to be part of a book trailer -- for Suzanne Collins's Catching Fire!!

Douglas Adams, ICONS, and elephants

Margaret Stohl, who co-authored the Beautiful Creatures series with Kami Garcia, has a new series hitting bookshelves in May.  Icons is about...the future? teens fighting to discover the truth while getting swoony about one another?  possibly aliens? 

Whatevs, here's the trailer.
Blarg. Or maybe I'll just watch reruns of the X-Files. I'm not excited guys, but maybe you are, so there you go.

Image credit: argial.deviantart.com

You know what IS exciting?  Today would have been Douglas Adams's 61st birthday.  Okay, so that particular fact is sad, because the man died way too young, but we can still be excited about all the great books he wrote in his lifetime.  Even if you are not a sci-fi fan, you have to appreciate Adams's advocacy for endangered species.  He would be very unhappy about what is happening to these elephants.

Sci Fi Recommendations from io9

Ahhhh, lazy Sundays.  Why should I make book recommendations when someone else has expended time and energy to do it for me?

For serious, though -- Mike Carey is an AMAZING writer.  I have loved his comic book work for years, so I am absolutely going to check out the Felix Castor books.

Summer Reading Recommendations: Dystopia

Did you think I'd forgotten you, summer readers?  Nope nope nope.  Today's reading recommendations come from the Lawrence Public Library in Lawrence, Kansas!  Thanks Kansas, for this dope flow-chart.  All these selections are dystopian-and-end-of-the-world-fiction.

Credit: Thanks good-wallpapers.com for this amazing visual

Did you read The Hunger Games?  Did you read The Hunger Games more than five times?  Okay, it's time for you to head over to the aforementioned flow-chart and read SOMETHING ELSE.

Today is Towel Day!

Image: top-science-fiction-novels.com

What is Towel Day you ask?

Read this.  Or watch this.  Or listen to this.  Then grab your towel and celebrate Douglas Adams.

Book trailer roundup!

Get on the wait list now, because these are going to fly off the shelves...

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi




Legend by Marie Lu




The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater*





*She made this trailer herself!