My darling girl, I love you, have courage, and keep far away from Orion Lake. Book Two of Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy starts right where Book One left off, with a note smuggled in by an incoming Freshman and delivered to Galadriel – “El” to her friends, which she’s eternally shocked she actually has now
I read Natasha Pulley’s debut novel while on a family vacation to Yellowstone National Park, and I read her second while on a family vacation to Asheville, North Carolina. Apparently I’m making a real habit of this, since my family started our long-delayed vacation to Boone, North Carolina last month and Pulley released a brand
“The unique layout of LitenVärld encourages wormholes to form between universes. These wormholes connect our stores to LitenVärlds in parallel worlds.” Nino Cipri’s story Finna is the last novella that was left for me to read in the Hugo nominations for 2021. At 92 pages it’s also the shortest novella, and the most weirdly lighthearted.
…when people joke and call me Riot Baby for being born when I was, it ain’t with any kind of affection, but something more complicated… Tochi Anyebuchi’s Hugo-nominated novella starts in Los Angeles just before the Rodney King riots. Kev is born in a Los Angeles hospital in the middle of the riot, almost dying
A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun Rebecca Roanhorse’s previous Hugo-nominated novel (and debut book) was set in a dystopian future of climate disaster and Navajo legends come to life. Her latest book has also been nominated for Best Novel, and this one is set in the distant
She belonged with the Librarians, and she would prove it. My first experience with Sarah Gailey’s Wild West novellas was the Hugo-nominated hippo-themed caper, River of Teeth. Gailey’s latest Hugo-nominated novella, Upright Women Wanted, is also set in the Wild West, although a lot further removed from 1890’s Louisiana than you may at first realize.
“Overse added, “Just remember you’re not alone here.” I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.” Martha Wells has already received a Hugo Award for two of the novellas in her Murderbot Diaries series, so it’s no surprise
We’ve reviewed a few of P. Djèlí Clark’s novellas and short-stories in the past, all of them nominated for Hugo awards and most featuring actual history that’s been nudged into an alternate universe by the appearance of magic. Clark’s latest nominated novella is no exception, taking place in 1920’s Georgia. Being smack in the middle
I don’t blame them. I’m not angry. Everyone uses my name for a swear word but it’s so completely fine. They don’t know I’m beloved. But I know, and that’s plenty. The Past is Red, Catherynne Valente’s sequel to her short story The Future is Blue, is scheduled to be released next month on July