https://alandove.com/tags/fiction/ Recent content in Fiction on Alan Dove, Ph.D. Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Alan Dove Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:40:00 -0400 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/reviews-march-2026/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:40:00 -0400 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/reviews-march-2026/ My March reading spanned global capitalism, a guide to personal journaling, a depressingly realistic dystopia, a page-turner about taxes, and a celebrated time travel novel. Here’s what I thought of each of these books. https://alandove.com/posts/2025/reviews-february-2026/ Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:34:00 -0500 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/reviews-february-2026/ The Great Blizzard of 2026 only grazed us, with less than a foot of snow falling, but between the other snowstorms and a brutal cold snap, it was still a good month to curl up in a warm house with some good books. https://alandove.com/posts/2025/january-2026-reviews/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:54:00 -0500 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/january-2026-reviews/ Last year’s reading pace shows no signs of abating, and in January I happened to pick some great books from my long list. The three award-winning novels I read were all excellent, in completely different ways, and the nonfiction book that accompanied me through most of my January workouts was a solid piece of reporting with only a few minor flaws. Laura and I also finished the third co-operative game in a fun series. https://alandove.com/posts/2025/december-2025-reviews/ Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:39:00 -0500 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/december-2025-reviews/ December arrived cold and snowy, perfect weather for sitting indoors with a cup of hot tea and a good book. I finished a trilogy I’d started a couple of months ago, read two books about food, and enjoyed a well-crafted memoir. https://alandove.com/posts/2025/november-2025-reviews/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:33:00 -0500 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/november-2025-reviews/ In November, I read three books and listened to a fourth, which I count as reading. The selection included an interesting historical biography, a somewhat informative book on corporate innovation, and two pretty good novels. Laura and I also played a couple of excellent co-operative iPad games. https://alandove.com/posts/2025/reviews-october-2025/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:40:00 -0500 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/reviews-october-2025/ My October reading included a fantasy trilogy, the first volume of another trilogy, and a fun book about the joys of poetry. https://alandove.com/posts/2025/now-a-shorter-story/ Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:10:00 -0400 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/now-a-shorter-story/ Another editor allowed my fiction into their publication, this time a very short story (under 1,000 words) in Nature: Futures, the prestigious scientific journal’s flash fiction column. https://alandove.com/posts/2025/book-reviews-september-2025/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 10:28:00 -0400 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/book-reviews-september-2025/ In September I read a hilarious satire, a pretty good continuation of a fun series, and a work of speculative fiction that could also qualify as serious literature. After that, I played a few good games my wife recommended. https://alandove.com/posts/2025/book-reviews-august-2025/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 10:11:00 -0400 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/book-reviews-august-2025/ In August, I went through three fantasy novels, then read a bunch of short stories, and ended the month enjoying the first few novellas of a highly-regarded sci-fi series. https://alandove.com/posts/2025/published-fiction-author/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:27:00 -0400 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/published-fiction-author/ In the Fall 2025 issue of the online speculative fiction magazine ‘Electric Spec,’ there’s a short story called ‘Half Lives.’ It’s my first published fiction, and I think I might do some more of this. https://alandove.com/posts/2025/book-reviews-july-2025/ Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:44:00 -0400 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/book-reviews-july-2025/ Here’s the start of what may become a monthly post: books I read in July 2025. It’s an eclectic mix of fiction and nonfiction. https://alandove.com/posts/2025/a-book-a-week-six-months-in/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:30:00 -0400 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/a-book-a-week-six-months-in/ At the beginning of 2025, I resolved to read more, especially fiction. Here are brief reviews of the more than two dozen books I’ve read in the past six months. https://alandove.com/posts/2025/the-apocalypse-but-not-the-end/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:13:00 -0500 https://alandove.com/posts/2025/the-apocalypse-but-not-the-end/ A pandemic. Global supply chains grind to a halt. Millions die. History splits into ‘before’ and ‘after.’ Sound familiar? Having lived that story myself, I’m in no hurry to revisit it. I have little interest in re-reading news from 2020, and the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic - and the appalling mismanagement that made it so much worse - solidified my longstanding aversion to post-apocalyptic fiction. Good books are good books, though, and even for a confirmed non-fan of post-apocalyptic fiction, Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel, is a great read.