This year, the first two of the Hugo Novelettes I read consisted of cozy and light-hearted ways of looking at how society can treat its vulnerable members versus how it actually does. I followed those up with a story in the form of a scientific treatise that illustrates how one piece of technology can change
I’m actually ahead of the game this year as far as the Hugo-nominated novelettes. By which I mean I’ve read one of them already (it’s the Catherynne Valente one, which I’m sure is no surprise). For the first three Best Novelette nominees, we have stories which all include the theme of needing to be seen,
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
It’s been a pretty chaotic year, what with family medical emergencies and other craziness (said other craziness being…more family medical emergencies), so I’m pretty happy to see the last of 2019. One good thing that 2019 did have was some fantastic books. Click the jump for a rundown of the five best (“best” here meaning
The Great Chaos came for everyone sooner or later. It would come for the whole universe someday. The endermen’s duty was to help it along any way they could. Fans of the game Minecraft will recognize the Endermen: the tall, shadowy creatures who destroy at random and relentlessly pursue the human players who do something
“I’m not accusing anyone, I’m trying to show you that we don’t even know what we don’t know.” Award-winning author Catherynne Valente gets to play in the Mass Effect sandbox with the latest novel in the Andromeda series. This installment is something of a buddy cop/murder mystery/sci-fi disaster movie. In space. The Quarian ark Keelah
2018 was a year that produced a staggering number of excellent books. Some of them were by my usual favorite authors, and some were by authors I only recently discovered. The good news is that I always had plenty to choose from whenever I needed something new to read. The bad news is that there
Untold riches! Following up on the success of her book Space Opera, Catherynne Valente has released a second book this year, this one a collection of her short stories. And what a collection it is. Absolutely everything I love about Valente’s writing is on display here. These stories defy description, so click the jump to
The Rare Earth Hypothesis means well, but it’s colossally, spectacularly, gloriously wrong. In one afternoon not too far off from today, every one of the seven billion people on planet Earth is visited by a representative from an alien race bearing a message for humanity: Prepare to be destroyed. OR…prove that you’re sentient. Convince us