The date of the Hugo Awards (August 15th in Dublin, Ireland) is coming up fast, time to get moving on these reviews. Click the jump for a review of two candidates for Best Novella.
The newcomers, who’s reality had betrayed them. Here they all were, crash-landed. Resented and resentful. Universally Displaced Persons. They’re called the One Hundred and Fifty-Six Thousand: refugees who used an experimental machine to escape an alternate version of America on the brink of nuclear war. Chosen by lottery, leaving behind friends and family and taking
These secret knights were known as the Brethren, and they hid in plain sight as truckers, bikers, cabdrivers, state troopers, RV gypsies, and others who lived or worked upon the highways and byways of America. The Brethren returns in the latest book in R.S. Belcher’s urban fantasy Brotherhood of the Wheel series. Hector Sinclair’s outlaw
Just in time to start choosing my summer reading list, the Hugo Awards finalists for 2019 have been announced! This year I’ve already read two of the novels, two of the novellas, and one short story; if I can catch up on the rest of them before August then I might actually read some of
If drama is a marathon, humor is a sprint. Yes, I KNOW I already reviewed a short-story collection last week. But my current cosplay project is taking a little more time than planned, and WonderCon is coming up in less than two more weeks, so I need something short to review. Something really short.
I’ll walk along the shore collecting shells, read all the books I’ve never had the time for, and study witchcraft. What should women do when they grow old and useless? Become witches. It’s the only role you get to write yourself. Hungarian-born author Theodora Goss has several novels to her name (including The Strange Case
Hello, You’re Dead. Please Wait In Line. Peter Green wakes up in the lobby of Purgatory – with no memory of how he died – wearing only pinstriped pajamas and a white silk tie, surrounded by dead people. Believe it or not, all of this is perfectly normal, one more newcomer who
“Be sure.” Every person in Eleanor West’s Home For Wayward Children has their own backstory of the fairytale world they stepped into, and their own reason for desperately wanting to go back. In Seanan McGuire’s latest novella in her Wayward
Middle-aged Halla has just inherited her great-uncle’s entire fortune, and now she has to seek legal help to defend her inheritance from her in-laws, who are contesting the will. And if you don’t think that’s enough peril to set a fantasy story around, then you haven’t met Halla’s in-laws. Deciding that suicide is the least-worst