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 …
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Book Bingo Review #2
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 …
Space Opera September 2021
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 …
Hugo Novella Nominees 2021
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 …
Hugo Novelette Nominees 2021
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 …
Tour the Sol System Bingo Challenge
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 …
