book reviews An Unusual Take on a Fairy Tale We All Know and Love August 7, 2025 / August 16, 2025 by Star Cat Books Mary Darling is an alumnus of living with Peter Pan. She is not the prim proper Victorian lady: she is one kickass woman. Wesley the bookstore cat was also enthralled by the book and helped me read it. Read more » Fairy tale science fiction
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online bookstore The Man in the High Castle December 1, 2015 / December 1, 2015 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment I’m well aware that Amazon’s online streaming property is doing The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, and people are coming into the store looking for copies of it. Alas, used copies are now ridiculously expensive because of this, but new copies are quite reasonable, and you can get them either by ordering […] Read more » online store science fiction tie-ins
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
new books Final Disc-World book announced — pre-order here! June 6, 2015 / August 17, 2015 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment US pub date listed as 9/15/15. Strangely, also listed as a YA book. Whatever. You can pre-order through our store! Send an email to: starcatbooks@starcatbooks.com to pre-order. Read more » science fiction Terry Pratchett 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
