About: Megan McCarthy-Biank
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In Interference, Sue Burke reunites readers with the sentient bamboo Stevland, the Glassmakers, and the humans of Pax. Taking place a couple hundred years after the events of the first novel, subsequent generations of these species have found a way to successfully work with each other in a civilized society. …
On September 11, 2001, police find an unidentified woman’s dead body on a beach near Kongslund Orphanage in Copenhagen, surrounded by seemingly random objects meticulously placed in a strange pattern. They begin to investigate the bizarre case, only for the Twin Towers in New York to fall later that morning …
In an alternate reality set far in the future, technological advances in medicine (among other industries) have expanded the life expectancy of human beings. Consequentially, overpopulation becomes an issue. In Secondborn, society’s solution for population control is to enforce an offspring limit in which parents may have only two children. …
Immigration. Police brutality. Healthcare. Societal Collapse. In a series of novellas, Cory Doctorow isn’t afraid to get political to address these themes in Radicalized. His stories force readers to confront these issues and the frightening familiarity of how these events play out. The main characters in these stories face corporate …