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 …
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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. …
Reading More Short Fiction
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 …
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 …
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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Plans For the Lockdown
So, Coronavirus is a thing, and my country has started going into lockdown. I'm not going to say too much more about that, because I'm sure your newsfeeds and social media accounts are as full of news about that as mine. My day job is in food production, so I'm an essential worker. Whilst I …
2019 Hugo Season
It’s that time of year again where the Hugo Nominees are announced. This year I’m going to try and read the novels, novellas, novelettes, short stories and maybe graphic stories of both the current 2019 awards, and the 1944 Retro Hugo awards. Damn, I have a lot to read in the next couple of months. …
Hello 2019
So it’s now 2019. The year of Akira, Bladerunner, The Running Man, The Island, and probably a few other stories. From now on I’m going to have a little helper with all my posts. Meet Knight. He likes sleeping on the keyboard and chasing stuff on the screen. From now on, I’m blaming him for …
