“You’re a sensualist, and a stoic, a libertine and a Spartan. You make love and death with equal facility. You are that most intriguing of candidates, a genuine mystery.” So we’re in the third year of a global pandemic and we’ve got what could quickly become a global conflict starting in Ukraine. A little interplanetary
“Knowing what you know now, you’d expect this to be a story of death, darkness, overall gloomy things. You’d be mistaken. This is a story about life thriving in the darkest of places, and love blossoming where once thought impossible. It is the story of the goddess who captured my heart, and changed the state
“I am the Father of Mysteries.” He spoke in deeply accented English. “The Walker of the Path of Wisdom. The Traveler of Worlds. Named mystic and madman. Spoken in reverence and curse. I am the one you seek. I am al-Jahiz. And I have returned.” We’ve reviewed quite a few short stories by P. Djèlí
Even here in the Up-and-Under, where water could have opinions and people could be seasons, there was a cost for the things people might want to give you. Nothing came for free. A. Deborah Baker (pen name of Seanan McGuire) continues the adventures of Avery and Zib in the second book of The Up-and-Under series:
2021 was a year with some amazing books, and I could easily put all of them in my list of favorites. I made some hard choices instead and this year I’m picking the three that I liked the most. Fine Print: Book One – Stjepan Šejić Last book to be reviewed in 2021, and it
There’s time for one more review before 2021 (finally) comes to a close, so this seems like the perfect opportunity to jump up and down and squeeeee about one of my Christmas presents: Stjepan Šejić’s Fine Print. I’ll start with the artwork, since that’s what first drew me to Šejić’s work ever since he started
Everybody was in a different war. Nobody’s war is quite the same as anyone else’s.” There’s time for at least one more review before the end of the year, and this one’s a doozy. B Cubed Press, the same publisher who brought us Alternative Apocalypse has now released Alternative War, 26 works of fiction (mostly)
The Hugo Awards for 2021 have been announced! Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists! Check out the full list of the finalists, with links to the Pixelated Geek reviews.
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