Unlikely Friendships
Check out these titles to explore how unlikely friendships can blossom into deeper bonds despite discouraging first impressions.
The Vanished Birds
Simon Jimenez’s sweeping space opera, “The Vanished Birds,” starts out small, with what could be a stand-alone novella: a boy is born with an extra finger, and his father declares that he will be special. He lives on a Resource World: a planet that is used to grow a crop that is harvested, saved and exported off-world every fifteen years by cargo ships.
Getting Weird in Los Angeles
The history and mystique of Los Angeles lends itself to many works of fiction, songs and movies. These are some of my favorite movies tinged with (or steeped in) oddness, the kind of oddness that can only play out against the background of Los Angeles.
Navigating Information Fatigue: Social Media
Learn more about social media’s influence on society and ourselves.
Catfishing on CatNet
If you’re looking for an action-packed, robot-filled, cat-tinged but realistic story, check out “Catfishing on CatNet.”
The Witch Boy
“The Witch Boy” is a wonderful middle grade graphic novel about being true to yourself. In thirteen-year-old Aster’s family, all the girls are raised to be witches while boys grow up to be shapeshifters, and anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. The trouble is, Aster is a boy and he would rather be a witch.
Westworld
Imagine an immersive theme park where guests can live out Wild West stories, creating their own adventures. If this sounds intriguing, and you love theorizing and poring over details and clues, then “Westworld” is the show for you.
Black and LGBTQ+ Authors
From science fiction to historical fiction and memoirs, these books portray various experiences of both Blackness and queerness.
Welcome to Pittsburgh: Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror
What if UFOs landed at the Point? What if all that was left of the city was a virtual reality archive? What if we slipped into Elfland? Check out these sci-fi, fantasy and horror titles set in Pittsburgh to find out.
Can’t Wait for More WandaVision?
As you wait for more exciting revelations, why not check out some of the comics storylines that helped inspire the show? Published in 1982, Avengers: Vision and the Scarlet Witch begins … Continued