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2016 Hugo Award Nominations

On April 28, 2016June 5, 2016 By Jayde HolmesIn Hugo Awards3 Comments

The 2016 Hugo Awards   Today is the day. This is the first year I have been a member of Worldcon, and therefore the first year I am able to vote in the prestigious Hugo Awards. The Hugos were first held in 1953, and have come to be considered one of the most important awards …

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Review – All The Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

On March 7, 2016June 5, 2016 By Jayde HolmesIn ReviewLeave a comment

Review #1 All The Birds in the Sky By Charlie Jane Anders Stars: 4   Ah, a fantasy set in the real world. Been a while since I read a work of low fantasy, and All the Birds in the Sky is a wonderful, whimsical, original take on the genre. The thing that really makes …

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What I Read Last Year

On February 29, 2016June 5, 2016 By Jayde HolmesIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Title says it all really. To give you all a chance to know what books I’m into – and to give me a chance to talk about some awesome books – I’m making this post. To encourage myself to read more widely, I decided to challenge myself with a book bingo card last year. I …

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The cover for "The Strongest in the Forest" by Jayde Holmes. The background is red and covered in dark red splatters like bloodstains. In the four ground is a digital sketch coloured only in black, white and gray of a crumbling square tower with a lone human on top facing down a large dragonlike creature that is clinging to the tower railings, with just a sword. The text is in white, with the book title at the top and the author name at the bottom.

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Book Bingo Progress

A five-by-five bingo card. Colour scheme is orange and grey and there are gears in the background. In the heading is the title ‘2026’, and the website address jaydeholmes.com/book-bingo-cards/ It has the following challenges, listed row-by-row and left-to-right: Row One: 1. Written in the 90s 2. Miliary Science Fiction 3. Translated from Spanish 4. Title Contains the Letter ‘X’ (The Adventure of the Demonic Ox) 5. Written in the 80s (The Long Habit of Living) Row 2: 1. Psychological Horror 2. Recommended by a Friend 3. Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Winner 4. Set on a Spacestation or Space habitat 5. Own Voices (Sovereign) Row 3: 1. Has Non-Humanoid Aliens 2. Set in the Ocean/Under the Sea 3. Free Square 4. Has Werewolves 5. Post-Apocalyptic Row 4: 1. Tittle Starts with ‘J’ (Japanese Gothic) 2. Alternate History 3. Written in the 1920s 4. Isekai 5. Start or Continue a Series with Six Books or More (Saga Vol. 12) Row 5: 1. Hugo Award Winner 2. Non-Fiction 3. Hard Science Fiction 4. Animal Protagonist 5. Twenty Flash Fiction Stories (Small Wonders Feb 26)

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