The Lore Olympus comic tackles a lot of issues about abuse: spousal, parental, generational. The latest two episodes are no exception, but they also don’t really need trigger warnings because the focus here is the response to that abuse. Rachel Smythe gives a balanced look at how abuse victims can overcome the feeling of guilt
Ann Leckie expands the universe of the Imperial Radch series (first introduced in the best-selling and Hugo-Award winning Ancillary Justice) in her latest novel Translation State. Three entirely separate lives intersect in a story about finding purpose, finding family, and finding out what it means to be human. We start with Enae Athtur; the book-jacket
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
You know how we’ve mentioned for a while that Rachel can be very, let’s say, judicious, with her plot reveals? Some of the commenters have been complaining that it can take quite a long time for anything to happen in the Lore Olympus comic. Hopefully everyone’s happier now, because a lot happened in the most
“Your father abandoned us. We were unchosen, cast out of his eschatology. We are going to destroy your father’s cult and salt the earth where it falls.” Fetter’s mother rips off his shadow immediately after birth, and almost as immediately starts his training. He commits his first killing at age eleven (a grand-uncle on his
WELL. The gigantic trash fire of last year’s nominating process sure was a thing, wasn’t it. It sounds like there’s been a house-cleaning in the committee, and maybe we can hope that all the votes are fairly counted this year, and no one’s getting unfairly disqualified, yes? This year will also be slightly different in
“If a civilization is not capable of keeping a book from burning then perhaps it wasn’t ready for whatever knowledge was held within.” Livira is a little girl living in a tiny, unprotected village in the dustlands. Evar Evantari is a young man who’s lived his entire life trapped in one library chamber with four
The first half of Lore Olympus episode 270 is light on dialog. Baby Dionysus starts the most adorable Hero’s Journey ever as he sets off to rescue Hades and Persephone. The cuteness balances out the second half of the episode, with images of Hades dealing with his worst nightmare: being a child at the mercy
Children of the Doors know about being mislaid… Antoinette Ricci, better known as Antsy, returns to the world of the Wayward Children. Only this time she’s dragging along most of the main characters of the previous stories as they break the “No Quests” rule of their school for former fairy tale adventurers. People who have