Jo Salazar’s If We Survive the Night started out as The Dead Weight, released by the author herself, and arrives from Sourcebooks Fire in 2026. In this interview, the YA zombie writer talks about building a protagonist you follow but never trust, writing institutional damage without a diagnosis, and why Quinn will never get the redemption arc readers keep waiting for.
Nether Vortex by Kevin J. Anderson Review: The Gods Were Never on Our Side
Kevin J. Anderson’s Nether Vortex takes the lost crew of Nether Station into a war across the galaxy, and finds real cosmic horror on the way. This sequel in the Nether series is a Lovecraftian space opera with scale, pace and a late turn that changes everything.



