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Binary System Podcast #398 – Lore Olympus episode 264 and 265

In the latest Lore Olympus episodes we’ve read, Demeter revealed a little more about Persephone’s history as a Fertility Goddess (namely, that she definitely is one, and that someone else in Demeter’s generation used to be, not sure who). That was episode 264, and the theme of 265 can be summed up even more briefly:

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2023 Hugo Awards – The Finalists and Winners

Congratulations to this year’s Hugo Award winners! Here’s an updated list with links to all the Pixelated Geek reviews. 2023 Hugo Award Finalists Best Novel The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) PG ReviewThe Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi (Tor Books) PG ReviewLegends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree (Tor Books) PG

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Review: 2023 Hugo Award Finalists – Two Short Stories and a Novella

It’s an interesting situation with this year’s fiction nominations. We’ve already seen that one of the nominated novelettes isn’t available in English. It turns out that four of the nominated short stories are also only available in Chinese. I haven’t been able to find a reason why these either weren’t released in English or weren’t

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2023 Hugo Awards – Three More Novelettes (sort of)

The last three Hugo-nominated novelettes for 2023 are something of a mixed bag. You’ve got a real-life problem that’s almost guaranteed to get worse, a future technology that highlights the very best that humanity has to offer to its descendants, and one more that I can’t actually describe because no one knows how to find

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2023 Hugo Awards – Three Novelettes

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,

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2023 Hugo Awards – The Finalists

Just as I was toying with posting a review of several random short stories (in hopes of getting one that might be nominated for a Hugo Award), the Chengdu Worldcon committee today posted the full list of finalists. I didn’t manage to guess more than one nominated work of short fiction (Catherynne Valente’s excellent novelette),

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Review: 2022 Hugo Award Finalists – The Short Stories

I saved the short stories for last this year, hoping for a little light summer reading to wrap up the Hugo Award reviews. Things didn’t quite work out as planned, because there’s a surprising amount of death in this year’s finalists. Also transformation, and working through grief, and an in-depth study of a folk song,

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Review: Elder Race

On its surface, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Hugo-nominated novella Elder Race sounds like a standard coming-of-age fantasy-adventure. Lynesse Fourth Daughter is the only person in her mother’s court who still believes in the old stories, and the only one who doesn’t want to just wait out the strange demon infestation in the Ordwood and hope it goes

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