“We are but fevered stars. Here a little while, bright with promise, before we burn away.” – Obregi Book of Flowers Rebecca Roanhorse returns us to Meridian, the fantasy version of Pre-Columbian Americas in the second book of her “Between Earth and Sky” series. Book 1 ended with the slaughter of the entire ruling body
It’s been a long time since Cecil and Carlos have been able to take a vacation (I’m sure we all know what that’s like) so this week they dropped Esteban off with Cecil’s sister and headed off to the Big City! No, not New York, the other Big City, the one with Middle Park, and
Souls are cheap. The trick is finding the right soul. Katrina Nguyen, a transgender teenager from a very unaccepting family, decides that her latest beating is one beating too many. She climbs out of her family’s apartment and boards a bus to Los Angeles, bringing along not much more than her laptop and her treasured
Yep, you read that right. We’d usually be recapping the latest episode of Welcome To Night Vale at this point, but instead we decided to spend an entire episode discussing Spider-Man: No Way Home which we FINALLY watched after, what, three months of saying we were going to? And boy, do we have a lot
Three more novelettes, these ones by Caroline M. Yoachim, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and John Wiswell, and I can safely say that these are quite a bit darker in tone than the first three. We’ve got a dreamlike trip through time as seen by the eyes of an immortal painter (immortality in this case granted by
This is sort of a travel-edition of my usual reviews; I’m away from home for a few days and needed something suitable for reading on a plane. The first three Hugo-nominated novelettes fit the bill nicely. This year we have stories of an exclusive boutique clothing store run entirely by fairies, a tiny robot who’s
“Call me Cecil…” Our favorite podcast is getting all-out literary as this week’s episode takes a few pages from Moby Dick and spins a tale about a hunt for a gigantic Librarian roaming the desert, occasionally pausing to reflect about the wisdom of accepting others as we learn to accept ourselves and… …OMG, you guys?
My mother died screaming my name. Isabel Ibañez’s latest Young Adult novel starts just minutes before a tragedy that changes 18-year-old Zarela Zalvidar’s life forever. Her beautiful mother, a talented flamenco dancer, is killed in a terrifying mishap, and Zarela and her arena-fighting father are left to run their family’s arena of La Giralda without
Since Lore Olympus and Peaky Blinders aren’t back yet and the next issue of Saga doesn’t drop till next week, we’re going to catch up on Raised By Wolves, finish up some fan art, and watch Beastars with the Spanish audio for funsies, how’s that sound to you? Play the Podcast Below | Download the