I’m going to space out the Hugo Award Best Novelette entries a little this year to try to make them last. Click the jump for a brief review of three stories of invasion, transformation, and memory.
“So the fairy silver brought you a monster of fire for a husband, and me a monster of ice. We should put them in a room together and let them make us both widows.” Naomi Novik’s Hugo-nominated novel is a Russian-themed fairy tale that starts with three women: a moneylender, a poor farmer’s daughter, and
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Memorial Day weekend is the perfect time to sit back, relax, and finish reading one of the longer novels I’ve got in my to-be-read pile. …so of course I decided to skip that plan and read a bunch of short stories instead. Click the jump for a look at this year’s Hugo Award nominees for
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! The latest episode of Welcome to Night Vale features the triumphant return of radio host Leonard Burton, all on his lonesome in the radio booth. And the town. And possibly the universe. Get yourself something comforting to drink – and possibly
Next up on our Hugo Awards coverage is two more of the Best Novella nominees. Click the jump for a review of Martha Wells’ “Artificial Condition” and P. Djèlí Clark’s “The Black God’s Drums”.
“From the ground, we stand. From our ships, we live. By the stars, we hope.” Becky Chambers’s Hugo Award nominee for Best Novel may be the third book in the Wayfarers series, but I think it works extremely well as a standalone book too. Hundreds of years ago, humanity used up the last of the
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! We now know why the internet was kind of going crazy after the latest Night Vale episode dropped. It wasn’t just the very on-the-nose metaphor for what veterans go through when coming back from active duty, or the blistering take on
The date of the Hugo Awards (August 15th in Dublin, Ireland) is coming up fast, time to get moving on these reviews. Click the jump for a review of two candidates for Best Novella.