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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
More Hugo Award reviews. This time I'm looking at the most awkward of story lengths, the Novelette. Let's get right into it. I'm in between a few projects at the moment, so I apologise for both the delay and my brevity regarding this post. Two Truths and a Lie By Sarah Pinsker Published at Tor.com …
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 …
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 …
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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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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