book reviews I Pray For the Night Notes from the Porch is Released December 7, 2023 / August 7, 2025 by Sable Quinn | Leave a Comment Hi, Hello, Howdy! My name is Sable Quinn, I’m the newest edition to Star Cat Books! I’m currently pursuing a BA in English Literature, hopefully then moving on to obtain my MA next. I own two cats, Ari and Edgar, and an eight month old puppy, Padraic, who’s not necessarily a puppy anymore! I actually […] Read more » local authors Short Story Collection Vermont
book reviews Book Review: Supersymmetry August 17, 2015 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment SUPERSYMMETRY by David Walton, 290 pp., $9.99, pub date Sept. 1, 2015 Following on its prequel, Superposition, this starts 15 years later with some of the original characters, including the family affected by the varcolac in Superposition. The varcolac is back, as can be seen from a disaster in a stadium at the beginning of […] Read more » book review science fiction
book reviews new books A review: the new Margaret Atwood July 9, 2015 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment THE HEART GOES LAST, by Margaret Atwood (pub date Sept 29, 2015) As noted in the flap copy for this title, the basic premise for this latest dystopian novel from Atwood revolves around a society that’s undergone some sort of economic and social collapse worldwide — although it’s left vague enough that we never do […] Read more » book review new books science fiction
book reviews new books The Fire Children by Lauren M. Roy June 9, 2015 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment THE FIRE CHILDREN by Lauren M. Roy (Rebellion, $9.99, pub date June 30, 2015) https://www.netgalley.com/re/1791244?r=f This quest-type YA pulled me in from the start with the unusual setting of a society that must retreat underground to historical tunnels beneath their homes every “eclipse,” which appears to happen at random years. The Fire Children are to […] Read more » book review new books science fiction YA books
book reviews new books Superposition: a book review March 25, 2015 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | 2 Comments on Superposition: a book review Another review for you: A book that will soon be in the store (next week!): SUPERPOSITION by Dave Walton (Pyr, trade paperback, $17.00) A cross between a whodunit and some of the best quantum physics SF I’ve ever read, this held me so hard I literally stayed up all night reading the galley and fell […] Read more » book review new books science fiction
book reviews new books The Galaxy Game, by Karen Lord March 24, 2015 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment I just reviewed this on Netgalley, as I read this in ARC (advanced reading copy) form before it was published, but it’s out now, and we have it in the store. I can’t recommend it highly enough: it blew me away. Fabulous SF, fabulous YA (or adult) — it’s just plain fantastic. I couldn’t put […] Read more » book review science fiction YA books
book reviews new books New YA and science fiction books! December 6, 2014 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment MORE BOOKS, this time our YOUNG ADULT & SCIENCE FICTION acquisitions that just came in. STEELHEART, by Brandon Sanderson (trade paperback) From the jacket: “Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no […] Read more » book review new books science fiction YA books
book reviews new books New children’s books! December 6, 2014 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment NEW BOOKS AT STAR CAT BOOKS! I’m so excited about some of these new books we just got in in time for you to snap them up for Christmas. We have limited copies right now, so get in here while we have them! I’ll start with a post about our new children’s books: THE MOUSE […] Read more » book review children's books new books
book reviews new books Engines of War, by George Mann September 6, 2014 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment Just finished reading Engines of War, the new Doctor Who novel that’s being released on Sept 9, 2014. This is apparently going to be the one and only “War Doctor” novel, and while it has some overblown scenes and descriptions that seem to plague all Doctor Who books, overall I thought it was rather good […] Read more » book review new books science fiction
book reviews new books Review: H2O by Virginia Bergin (Oct. 2014) August 28, 2014 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment H2O, by Virginia Bergin 978-1-4926-0654-3 $16.99, SourceBooks 336 pages, HC October 2014 Age 14+ Edited to add: The review, which you will find below, was written a few days ago. Days during which I found myself looking at the sky. At the clouds. All the time. Through my windshield as I was driving, above my […] Read more » book review new books review science fiction YA books
