I swear I’m not doing this on purpose, but the next three Hugo-nominated novelettes also have a theme, and this one is loneliness. It can be a lifelong estrangement between siblings, or a solitary magic-user having to deal with a disability without anyone finding out about it (or else), or something that’s actually called the
In this week’s recap, Steve Carlsberg is fitting into his job at Labyrinth as well as can be expected. By which we mean he’s working himself to death, losing connection with his family, and his attempts at corporate team-building are not appreciated. It’s a grim state of affairs, and don’t even get us started on
And that’s it. We’re down. I look up into an alien sky. Adrian Tchaikovsky’s stories have made multiple appearances at Pixelated Geek, and this year he has two books nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel (Jeez, Adrian, save some for the rest of the class.) For this book we return to a favorite
I’ve reviewed and enjoyed a couple of John Wiswell’s Hugo-nominated stories, but this is his debut novel. And wow, what a debut. In this fairy-tale-but-not-really, a monster who’s been terrorizing a small town meets a kindhearted traveler who’s entire family is monstrous, and somehow each of them are exactly what the other one needs. …her
This week in Night Vale, Cecil’s starting a new segment: Missed Connections. I’m sure you’re all familiar with the concept, where you throw all of your longing and regret into the public forum in the hopes that one person (or in the case here, one car, one planet, one train, or one very untrustworthy partner
“Your book and the hole it keeps cutting through time has started to break the world.” Mark Lawrence’s trilogy of the eternal Library wraps up in Book three, with a conflict that has spiraled out of the Library and into all of history, everywhere. The star-crossed lovers Livira Page and Evar Evantari are still searching
If I had to pick a common theme for the first three Hugo-nominated novelettes this year, it would be discovery. There’s something for each character to find in these, whether it’s a new identity, a fading memory, or a self that was left behind years ago for what turns out to be very bad reasons.
We actually DO have a Welcome to Night Vale episode to recap…but we also watched an episode of the latest season of Black Mirror. Believe it or not this is actually what we said we were gonna do, so of course we have to post a recap right away. After a quick discussion of some
It’s a bit of a space-travel review this week as I read two more Hugo-nominated novellas: Sofia Samatar’s story set in a caste-system aboard a generation ship, and Aliette de Bodard’s planetary-hopping monster hunt. The Practice, The Horizon, and The Chain – Sofia Samatar He spoke of the Wilderness and the River of Life. He