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
I’ve got about eighteen weeks to post reviews of twenty-four Hugo Award nominees in the main fiction categories (well, twenty-one, since I’ve already reviewed one novel and two novellas), so I’m gonna start with a two-fer. This week’s review is for Ray Nayler’s haunting novella of memory and war, and another adventure featuring Nghi Vo’s
Okay, we need to address that (?) in the episode title. Raise your hands, how many of you out there knew that Beastars Season 3 was going to be in TWO PARTS? Wow, that many of you? Okay, well we’d ask everybody to check back for updates on when the second part will be released,
I think back to something Qin Zheng once said: “Every oppressor, through their denial of humanity, sows the seeds of their own destruction.” Here we are. The seeds that bloomed. (Warning: Massive spoilers for the end of Iron Widow.) The second book in Xiran Jay Zhao’s (ongoing, yay!) Iron Widow series picks up exactly where