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 …
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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Pokémon Snap is Back
It has been about 23 days since my last post on this blog. Considering that this is Hugo Season, and that the Locus Award Finalists were announced last week, this is very weird for me. Now I could blame work for the break, or point out that I wrote a new short story during this …
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 …
A Quick Look at the 2021 Hugo Awards
The Hugo nominees have been announced. The Hugo nominees have been announced! This is one of the most exciting times on this blog. Here's the link to the full list of this year's nominees. Like normal, there are a lot of great works in that list. Unlike normal, the awards are not going to be …
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. …
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. …
