The Value of Nothing

Raj Patel

Raj Patel argues that the tragedy of the commons is one borne of privatization and corporatism, not an innate fact of the commoners themselves.

Privacy

Garret Keizer

Keizer’s approach to the topic of privacy is more philosophical than policy: you won’t find solutions to the problems of data mining or warrantless wiretaps within, but you will be prompted to think hard about privacy and its many contexts.

Universal Harvester

John Darnielle

Someone is cutting scenes from a creepy homemade movie into the rentals from the Video Hut.

Uncanny Valley

Anna Wiener

I avoided this book when it first came out because I feared it would hit too close to home. I wasn’t wrong.

The Mountain in the Sea

Ray Nayler

Dr. Ha Nguyen has been summoned to the remote archipelago of Con Dao, where there are rumors of an octopus that walks upright on land and may have taken to murdering local poachers.

The Blue Place

Nicola Griffith

Aud Torvingen is a Norwegian living in Atlanta, a former cop moonlighting as security, an expert in several forms of martial arts, and six feet tall.

Stay

Nicola Griffith

Aud Torvingen is tucked away in a remote cabin, grieving and alone.

Always

Nicola Griffith

Aud is back in Atlanta, teaching a self-defense class to a ragtag group of women, when one of her students takes her lessons in a direction she didn’t imagine.