Long time followers of this blog may have noticed that I didn't write anything about the Hugos this year. And that I haven't posted anything for a couple of months. This year, I've been feeling as if I've turned a hobby I love into a tedious job. Don't get me wrong, the reading challenges are …
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Unboxing the Creepy Book
The bubble wrap does detract from the forbidding aura of the book I admit. You ever get an impulse to order a cursed book online? Last month I learnt about Einar Baldvin's beautiful but creepy graphic novel The Crawling King, and I instantly wanted it. The book is a collection of scraps of stories and …
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. …
Space Opera September 2021
I'm going to be off work for a whole month, and with all that time I decided to see if there were any fun readathons to keep me occupied. As you can tell by the timing of this post, this was a pretty last minute decision. Fortunately, I came across a really fun looking Readathon …
Tour the Sol System Bingo Challenge
I have been itching to make a new book bingo card, and with the year more than half over, it seems like a good time to see if anyone is up for a new reading challenge. I'm doing terrible at my yearly Random Book Bingo Card, but why not start another one? This isn't a …
Locus Award Winners 2021
Today the Locus Awards were announced. A full list of the winners and finalists can be found here. I'm going to briefly touch on the winners, and also compare these winners to this year's Nebula Winners, since I didn't get a chance to cover them. Here are the Locus Winners in each category: Science Fiction …
Women Write Classic SFF Readathon 2021
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 …
Nebula Award Finalists 2021
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. …
Reading More Short Fiction
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 …
Books I Am Looking Forward to in 2021
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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