The finalists for the 2022 Hugo Awards have just been released. For the full list, check out the the Hugo Award site here. For here, I'm going to mostly focus on the four written fiction categories; the novel, novella, novelette and short stories. In the novel category, there were a total of 443 works nominated. …
Author: Jayde Holmes
Hugo and Locus Award Nominations
It feels like I've only just stopped talking about the 2021 Hugo Awards, and now nominations are open for the 2022 awards. In fact, they opened up just after the ceremony, but I haven't been blogging a lot lately. Nominations for the Hugo Awards are open to all members of both the 2021 DisConIII and …
Terra Ignota Re-Read Part 3: First Read of Perhaps the Stars
Oh wow. OH WOW. This is how you wrap up a series. It's been a month since I finished Perhaps the Stars, and I am still just in complete awe at this series. So much was payed off, and the war was depicted so well. I'm going to try and be lighter on spoilers here …
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Book Bingo 2022 Card
Time to roll a new bingo card to play with this year. I have a list of over 200 challenges that my bingo generator can draw from, so I never know quite what I'll be working on. Here's what I rolled this year. I like this card. It has a variety of challenges, asks for …
Book Bingo Challenge 2021 Results
I read a lot of great books in 2021. In total I read 71 books, with a total of about 14,634 pages. This year I was marking off books on a randomly generated book bingo card, and I got three bingos. I almost finished the card, but there were a few easy tiles I missed. …
Book Bingo Review #3
Look at my Book Bingo Card; I managed to sneak a bingo in right at the end. This was a diagonal line, that includes the free square, so I can talk about any book I want. I'm going to use that square to talk about a book I hated, although the four from actual challenges …
Hugo Awards 2021
After such a long wait, I was still so excited to see who would take home the rockets today. I had to wait a bit longer due to technical difficulties, but I still love watching the ceremony life. Especially one as good as this one, which was concise and flowed well. The hosts Andrea Hairston …
Terra Ignota Re-Read Part 2: The Will to Battle
Re-reading the Terra Ignota series was a good idea. A really good idea. This is such a richly detailed world, with new ideas on every page and politics that are so damn complicated. Which is good, as it makes this crazy world feel more plausible, and makes a book that consists mostly of people talking …
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Terra Ignota Re-Read Part 1: Too Like the Lightning & Seven Surrenders
A couple of years ago I read Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning for one of my Hugo review posts. I then went straight to the sequel, Seven Surrenders, and devoured book 3, The Will to Battle, as soon as I could. Since then it has been a long wait for the end of the …
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Brave Little Toasters
I've heard that Thomas M. Disch has written a lot of really good books for adults and a lot of high quality poetry. Of course, what he is best known for now seems to be the Brave Little Toaster stories. These strange books, The Brave Little Toaster and The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, …
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