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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2021 Hugo Award for Best Novel Nominees as Pokémon
Time to do my annual reviews where I relate everything back to Pokémon. In a normal year, the Hugo Awards would be over and done with by now, but this year it got dragged out due to certain world events. In this post I will be reviewing the nominees for Best Novel, but since this …
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Space Opera September Reviews
September has ended; time to wake up and get reviewing. You may remember last month I decided to do the Space Opera September Readathon, run by SFF180. The readathon gave me a month to read books, which allowed me to rank up as either a Federation Officer or a Rebel Fighter while collecting ships. Like …
Book Bingo Review #2
In my last book bingo reviews, I was optimistic that my next bingo would be coming soon. That did not happen. We're halfway through September and I have just gotten my second bingo. I am quite proud of myself. This is going to be an interesting post, because this row contains two books that I …
Hugo Novella Nominees 2021
Novellas are a fun category; they're pretty much novels, but I can get through them quicker. Tor Books's online magazine Tor.com have put out great novellas and in recent years and dominated this category. This is especially noticeable this year, as all six finalists are Tor.com novellas. Tor.com authors are a diverse lot, and Tor.com …
Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award Nominated Short Stories Part 2
Still reviewing and sharing the short stories that have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award. Or at least, sharing the ones that are freely available online. All the links I find to Aliette de Bodard's In the Land of the Spill give me a bad gateway error. I considered delaying this post …
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Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award Nominated Short Stories Part 1
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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Women Write Classic SFF Readathon Reviews
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 …
Book Bingo Review #1
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. …
Review: Harrow the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
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 …
Jayde Holmes 