On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller List is published. Every week, we love to see what books have been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. This week, every book in the Wild Robot series by …
Adrian Tchaikovsky is back […] with a story about a little household robot who makes a mess around the house one day. Dismayed that they’ve exceeded their programming (and it wasn’t entirely their fault), they do what all accidental murderers do: they run. And when they do, they discover a strange world where humanity is …
This extraordinary mash-up of novel and graphic novel (pages of text alternate with pictures) depicts an alternate early 21st century America ravaged by drone-fought war, in which the surviving populace spend most of their time languidly plugged into a massive virtual reality network. Our off-grid heroine and her robot companion are on a mission, the …
