Mood
Defiant
Books with their fists up: stubborn, fierce and urgent, refusing to sit down or shut up, no matter the cost.
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Books and stacks that feel Defiant
Current Spanish science fiction
By emerging authors, but quality work
Famous films whose novels tell another story
Films you know by heart that started as novels telling a different story. Worth reading even if you've seen the movie fifty times.
Novels about a mother betting everything on a child
Every hour she has, spent on a future the kid never agreed to. Novels about mothers, ambition, and the weight of being someone's whole plan.
Working-class novels written without a drop of pity
Nobody here is a lesson, and nobody is asking for your sympathy. Working-class novels where the people are funny, difficult, and entirely themselves.
Science fiction with both feet on the Moon
Novels where the Moon stops being something you gaze at from the balcony. Here you have to walk on it, and it's not a friendly place.
Dystopias
Futures that sometimes look too much like reality
Myth retellings for when you've run out of Greek ones
Norse, Hindu, Chinese and Roman myths, retold up close. For when you've closed your last Greek one and aren't ready to leave the old stories.
Science fiction that runs on ancient myths
Old myths running on new machines. Sci-fi for readers who grew up on mythology and never quite got over it.
Margaret Atwood 1986
J. C. Plaza and Julio Embid 2026
Alexander Dumas 1940
Amal El-Mohtar 2019
Isaac Asimov 1951
Orson Scott Card 1985
Andre Agassi 2009
J.R.R. Tolkien 1972