With all the extra time before the Hugo Awards, I decided to go a bit crazy with reviewing the short fiction. These last few days I have been reading all the nominees for the Hugo, Nebula, and the newly announced Locus Awards. (For more about the Locus Award Nominees, click here.) This is 15 short …
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It has been about 23 days since my last post on this blog. Considering that this is Hugo Season, and that the Locus Award Finalists were announced last week, this is very weird for me. Now I could blame work for the break, or point out that I wrote a new short story during this …
At the start of this month I participated in the Women Write Classic SFF Readathon. More information on the now finished Readathon can be found on Twitter @ClassicSFFReads. The Readathon offered three challenges, and I chose the Portal Expert challenge, which saw me reading three books from three different speculative genres. I also unintentionally completed …
The Hugo nominees have been announced. The Hugo nominees have been announced! This is one of the most exciting times on this blog. Here's the link to the full list of this year's nominees. Like normal, there are a lot of great works in that list. Unlike normal, the awards are not going to be …
Woo-hoo, I got a bingo. And I got it before the year was half over. So far this year, I've read some really good books. Some absolutely amazing books, and a few meh books. These five reviews are a good cross section of these different tiers, so I'm going to get right into the reviews. …
I haven't done a readathon since I was a little kid, but now I am really feeling like pushing myself to do one. The Women Write Classic SFF Readathon is a straightforward challenge to read three classic books by female authors in just over a week. For this challenge, the term 'classic' is used to …
Award Season is starting again, with the finalists for the 56th Annual Nebula Awards having just been announced. The full list of finalists can be found here. Whilst the Hugo Awards are nominated and voted on by the public, the Nebula Awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) association. …
Every year I miss out on some amazing short fiction. Last year, I missed a lot. I am starting to fill out my Hugo Nomination ballot, and I've been reminded how much I have neglected the short fiction magazines and websites. Except for Tor.com, which I dropped into occasionally. Now the big question for me …
Title: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Published August 2020 (Tor.com) Score: 7/10 I was looking forward to this book so much, and I came away from it so happy. But, I also wanted to give up on it at one point and will probably never read it again. With all the complex feelings Harrow …
Normally by this point in January I'd have a big list of books I'm waiting for. This year, that list is mostly continuations of series I'm already enjoying, with a few Tor.com novellas thrown in. The first 2021 release I'll get to is Seanan McGuire's Across the Green Grass Fields, which came out on January …
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