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The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews
The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews
The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews
The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews
Naomi Kritzer’s Chaos on Catnet is a direct sequel to her Lodestar Award winner Catfishing on Catnet, and it does exactly what a sequel should do: expand the stakes, introduce a few important new characters, reveal some secrets and puzzles left over from the first novel, and deepen the tone a bit. The trick is to manage all this without retreading familiar plot points or losing the authentically breezy YA tone of the first novel. Catfishing on Catnet managed to keep that almost sunny tone intact while developing some pretty dark plotlines: the teenage Steph and her computer-genius mom mo...