Guardian of Our Stars by Danielle Gao: A Cosmic Adventure That Asks Us to Look Beyond What We Think We Know
We think we know what aliens look like, or at least we think we do. For years, popular culture has been feeding us an image: enormous black eyes, green or gray skin, odd hands, bodies that seem unfamiliar. But what if our expectations are exactly the thing that keeps us from noticing something extraordinary when […]
The Engine by Michael Rachkovsky: Is Love the Force That Drives Human Evolution?
What if love is more than an emotion? What if it is not simply one feature of human existence, but the force responsible for pushing humanity toward its next stage of evolution? Michael Rachkovsky builds The Engine around this ambitious proposition, creating a novel in which romance, genetics, spirituality, philosophy, and the mysteries of consciousness […]