Dan Kubis
Dan Kubis teaches English at the University of Pittsburgh. He has reviewed books for the Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and Chicago Review of Books.
Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded opens with thoughts on when a person is most likely to shit themselves.
In Ascension was published in the UK in 2023 (MacInnes is Scottish) and has received rave reviews since then. Notably, reviews have come from mainstream outlets like the Guardian and the Scotsman as well as online sites that review sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction. Some of these reviews try to claim the novel for one genre or another, but most celebrate it for blurring boundaries, comparing it favorably to other genre-crossing works like Carl Sagan’s Contact, Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life,” or Stanisław Lem’s Solaris.
Caleb Azumah Nelson’s second novel, Small Worlds, has much in common with his award-winning debut Open Water.
