Every year I miss out on some amazing short fiction. Last year, I missed a lot. I am starting to fill out my Hugo Nomination ballot, and I've been reminded how much I have neglected the short fiction magazines and websites. Except for Tor.com, which I dropped into occasionally. Now the big question for me …
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Review: Harrow the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
Title: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Published August 2020 (Tor.com) Score: 7/10 I was looking forward to this book so much, and I came away from it so happy. But, I also wanted to give up on it at one point and will probably never read it again. With all the complex feelings Harrow …
Books I Am Looking Forward to in 2021
Normally by this point in January I'd have a big list of books I'm waiting for. This year, that list is mostly continuations of series I'm already enjoying, with a few Tor.com novellas thrown in. The first 2021 release I'll get to is Seanan McGuire's Across the Green Grass Fields, which came out on January …
Book Bingo 2021
I fired up my book bingo generator and here is the card I got. I have a year to work on it, and I think this one will be a bit easier than last year. When I originally rolled this card, I ended up getting a few challenges from my last card. I spun the …
My 2020 in Books
Time to look at what I read in 2020, and make some plans for 2021. Let's start with my book bingo challenge. I got three bingos and filled all but five tiles. I enjoyed this challenge a lot, and it led me to seek out a range of books I might not have picked up …
Favourite 2020 Books So Far
I've read a lot this year. As of writing, I am five books away from completing my Goodreads 80 book reading challenge and I've filled most of my bingo card. I still have a tiny bit of time left on these challenges, so I'll hold off talking about them for now. In this post, I'm …
Review: Slan – A. E. van Vogt
Title: Slan by A.E. van Vogt Published 1940 Score: 8/10 This is another classic science fiction book that has been sitting on my TBR pile for too long. Slan is one of the classic stories of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. For many years after it's publication, it was seen as one of the …
New Short Story – Six Big Do Nots of Earth Tourism
As I said in an earlier post, I'm not doing NaNoWrMo this year, but I am doing more writing. Now I'm here to share the first fruit of these labours. Wait, that sounded weird. Maybe I've been doing too much writing. Introducing the Six Big Do Nots of Earth Tourism, a flash fiction piece about …
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Ayreon Transitus
Time for a fantasy album review. I started this review last month when I got the album, but I held off on it until I receive my companion comic book. The comic has only just arrived, due to a combination of me ordering late and things taking forever to ship to Australia. But I've read …
Should I do NaNoWrMo This Year?
No. I should not. I will probably die if I push myself to write that much. Besides, I finally got back to my long neglected story about telepathic tree fungi and am ready to write about the fight with the dragon. I don't want to shelve that for a month to do NaNoWrMo. On the …
