The Demolished Man By Alfred Bester (Narrated Gerard Doyle) Published December 2017 (Tantor Audio) Originally Published March 1953 Score: 9/10 I tried to read The Demolished Man many years ago, before I truly got into science fiction. I heard a summery of the plot somewhere else and thought it sounded interesting, but didn’t go out …
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November 2018 Reviews
As promised, I read a lot this month. A lot of that was short fiction, which I find harder to talk about than novels, but I did come across so many interesting stories. I also listened to the very first Hugo Award winner, Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man this month, but this post was getting …
October 2018 Reviews
I was thinking of doing NaNoWriMo this year, but a combination of busy start to November, no new ideas, and getting back into my long-neglected novel have shot that. To make up for that, I’m going to try and read as many books as I can this month so I can give my readers a …
September Reviews
Alright, a bit of a September/October page, since I wanted to talk about Rogue Protocol and Exit Strategy together. And, also because I’ve been pre-occupied. Yeah, I admit it, I failed at a monthly review thing after just one month. I’ve read a lot of short fiction, but today I’m going to talk about the …
Can’t Stop Buying Magazines
For the past nine years, I have had a subscription to a little magazine called Analog Science Fiction and Fact. This year I wanted to read short fiction from a lot of different places. More Uncanny, more Asimov’s, more from Tor.com. I also backed two other magazines on Kickstarter: horror magazine The Dark, and the return of …
Recent Reads, July-August 2018
There have been so many new books released these past three months, and it seems my reading has been too fast for my reviewing. I think going forward, I might try and do monthly mini reviews. The Revenant Gun By Yoon Ha Lee Published June 2018 Score: 10/10 I don’t think I can actually …
A Late Update on the Hugo Awards
If you've been as interested in the Hugos as I am, you would have heard about the winners by now. If not, you can check them out here. As expected, N.K. Jemisin's The Stone Sky won the award for Best Novel, making Jemisin the first author ever to win the award three years in a row. She …
The 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novel Finalists, As Pokemon.
Last year I gave myself a fun little project: to make a Pokémon theme team based off the finalists for the Hugo Award for the Best Novel. I did the same thing this year, though so far the team hasn’t had a lot of success when it comes to battles. Still, with the Hugo Winners …
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2018 Hugo Award for Best Novelette Finalists
Alright, I finished my Hugo reading just before voting closed, and now I present my thoughts on this year's novelettes. Whilst writing these reviews, I realised that I tend to not find novelettes as exciting or memorable as short stories and novellas. Or at least, I haven't come across as many novelettes that got to …
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2018 Hugo Award for Best Short Story Finalists
So sorry everyone, I seem to have gotten behind in my Hugo Award reading and reviewing. Maybe doing both the regular Hugos and the Retros was too much for me. Or maybe I can blame getting my wisdom teeth out. It sucks when life gets in the way of reading. Okay, I’ll be honest, there …
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