New novels by Natasha Pulley, Sierra Greer and James Goodhand tell heartbreakingly complex stories about romance and its discontents.
Did you ever fall in love with someone you shouldn’t have fallen in love with? This question, posed by, has consumed much of genre fiction lately. Freedom fighters fall for imperialists. Bitter rivals catch feelings for each other. And three new science fiction novels explore star-crossed lovers with an extraordinary, heartbreaking complexity.In Pulley’s latest, humans have lived on a terraformed Mars for generations, their bodies altered to live in low gravity.
Most romances are, to some extent, about power: what it is, and who has it. January has the physical strength to murder Aubrey with little effort, but Aubrey has political and economic dominion over January. “The Mars House” uses those power differentials to thrillingly bring this relationship to life.Speaking of a power imbalance, this story of a robot girlfriend trying desperately to please her owner/boyfriend packs a bigger punch than you’d expect.
The self-destructive Alex is manifestly unworthy of his true love, the saintly Holly. What kept me turning the pages of “Day Tripper” was Alex’s quest to deserve Holly by rejecting the influence of toxic men, including a bully and an emotionally abusive father. This effort to grapple with the legacy of monstrous masculinity is the heart of the book, and it makes “The Day Tripper” an essential, profound read.
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