Lucas Stoffel

Born a Crime Book Review: The title of Trevor Noah's memoir is not a metaphor. Under South Africa's apartheid laws, relationships between Black and white people were illegal. His mother, Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah, is Xhosa. His father, Robert, is Swiss-German. Trevor's very existence was a crime punishable by prison. His mother could have been jailed for having him. When they walked down the street together, she had to pretend he wasn't hers.

Project Hail Mary Book Review: If you loved The Martian, buckle up, because Andy Weir didn't just write a follow-up — he evolved. Project Hail Mary drops you into the disoriented mind of Ryland Grace, a middle-school science teacher who wakes up on a spaceship with atrophied muscles, two very dead crewmates, and absolutely no memory of why he's hurtling through space. Turns out, the sun is dimming. An alien microorganism is feeding on its energy, and Earth has maybe a generat

Publishers Weekly gave it 9.50 out of 10. Kirkus called it exuberant. A picaresque memoir about daring to live an unlikely life in a society that punishes those who try.

Off to Be the Wizard asks one of the best questions in comedy sci-fi: what if a computer programmer discovered that reality is a simulation, found the source code, and immediately used it to give himself wizard powers in medieval England? Martin Banks is that programmer, and he is exactly as irresponsible as that premise suggests.