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 …
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Nebula Award Winners 2021
The winners of this years (last years? Depends how you look at it I guess) Nebula Award have just been announced. Check out the full list here. First off, winner of the Best Novel award goes to A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark. I am super psyched about this for a number of …
Locus Award Finalists 2022
The 2022 Locus Award finalists have just been announced, and I want to quickly go over them and make some comparisons with the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Just quickly here. There are ten finalists in each category, and the full list can be found at the Locus Magazine website here. In the novel categories, there …
Hugo Nominated Short Stories 2022
With the Hugo Nominees announced, I decided to dive right into the short stories. The finalists this year are a good batch, and are all free online. The first three stories in this list; Mr. Death, Proof by Induction, and Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather, are also finalists for the Nebula Award. Here's what I …
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. …
Hugo and Locus Award Nominations
It feels like I've only just stopped talking about the 2021 Hugo Awards, and now nominations are open for the 2022 awards. In fact, they opened up just after the ceremony, but I haven't been blogging a lot lately. Nominations for the Hugo Awards are open to all members of both the 2021 DisConIII and …
Terra Ignota Re-Read Part 3: First Read of Perhaps the Stars
Oh wow. OH WOW. This is how you wrap up a series. It's been a month since I finished Perhaps the Stars, and I am still just in complete awe at this series. So much was payed off, and the war was depicted so well. I'm going to try and be lighter on spoilers here …
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Book Bingo 2022 Card
Time to roll a new bingo card to play with this year. I have a list of over 200 challenges that my bingo generator can draw from, so I never know quite what I'll be working on. Here's what I rolled this year. I like this card. It has a variety of challenges, asks for …
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. …
Book Bingo Review #3
Look at my Book Bingo Card; I managed to sneak a bingo in right at the end. This was a diagonal line, that includes the free square, so I can talk about any book I want. I'm going to use that square to talk about a book I hated, although the four from actual challenges …
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