As I said last post, I've been busy... but fortunately it doesn't take too long to read short stories. I've read most of this year's Hugo nominees in the short story category, and enjoyed... most of them. Let's get into some quick reviews. Answerless Journey Han Song, Translated by Alex Woodend Originally Published in English …
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2024 Hugo and Nebula Awards
Welcome to Award Season everyone. Within the last fortnight the the finalists for the 2024 Hugo Awards and the 59th Nebula Awards have been announced, and it looks like another competitive pair of ballots. Here are links to both sets of final ballots: Hugo Awards: https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/2024-hugo-award-finalists/ Nebula Awards: https://nebulas.sfwa.org/sfwa-announces-the-59th-nebula-awards-finalists/ I was having concerns with the …
Hugo Award Thoughts… both 2023 and 2024
I did say I would talk about the Hugo Nominations when the nomination statists page was released, and well... here we are. Worldcon23 dropped the data at the last possible second and damn, there is some controversy. Click here for a link to the PDF if you want to follow along. If you aren't interested …
Hugo Finalists 2022
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. …
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 …
Hugo Award Novella Finalists 2017
I’ve now finished reading all the written fiction nominated for the 2017 Hugos. And I did it all before the voting deadline this time. Yay! This year was full of really strong stories, and the novellas were some of the best I think. Most I have read, or have been intending to read for a …
Lauren’s Super Speculative Fiction Book Bingo Card
This year I have made my own book bingo card, with some challenges I want to complete. I’m going to put more effort into finishing these challenges than I did for last year’s one; not that there was anything wrong with the challenges last time, I’m just more motivated to set reading goals this year. …
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Review – Ghost Talkers
Ghost Talkers By Mary Robinette Kowal Published 16th August 2016 (Tor Books) Score: 9/10 My father was a soldier, and war documentaries and war movies have always been something we’ve bonded over. I wouldn’t call myself a war buff, but I am quite partial to stories set during the world wars. Despite this background, …
Travels, Telepathy, and Tadpoles
Travels, Telepathy, and Tadpoles This isn’t going to be like my normal blog posts. I have a number of things I want to talk about, but nothing I really want to spend an entire blog post about. So, strap in for a dose of reviews, advertisement, ramblings, and tadpoles. First of all, I should mention …
Review – A Game of Thrones
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1) By George R. R. Martin Published August 1st 1996 Score: 8.5/10 It’s Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones! How can you not know about it already? What do you need me to say? I guess I should say a bit more, though I …
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