I don’t blame them. I’m not angry. Everyone uses my name for a swear word but it’s so completely fine. They don’t know I’m beloved. But I know, and that’s plenty. The Past is Red, Catherynne Valente’s sequel to her short story The Future is Blue, is scheduled to be released next month on July
The last three Hugo-nominated novelettes are stories by Sarah Pinsker, A.T. Greenblatt, and Isabel Fall. These ones are slightly more…challenging? Thought-provoking? Whatever you want to call it, we’ve got a story about memory, a story about trying to fit in with a group of super-powered heroes, and a very controversial story that I’m not sure
The first day of the end of the world started entirely without incident. C. Robert Cargil – author of We Are Where The Nightmares Go and screenwriter for “Doctor Strange” and “Sinister” – spun a tale of the aftermath of the Robot Apocalypse in Sea Of Rust. His latest book Day Zero tells the story
Next up for the Hugo awards, three of the stories nominated for Best Novelette. For this group we’ve got a dystopian commentary on body image (and how society’s treatment of it is so much more poisonous than “don’t you want to be healthy?”), a tale of high school friendship mixed with genetic tampering and revenge,
The third book in Mary Robinette Kowal’s “A Lady Astronaut” series is up for a Hugo award this year, and it’s an absolute cracker. Book One told the story of a world-ending disaster and humanity reaching for the stars from the point of view of the women fighting for their place aboard the spaceships. Book
You will never remember the great if you do not remember the small. Nghi Vo’s Hugo-nominated debut novella is set in a fantasy-version of Imperial China, and tells the story of an exiled Empress and her loyal, rabbit-toothed servant girl. Both of them were too lowly to be kept around the palace, but too important
The third book in Mary Robinette Kowal’s A Lady Astronaut trilogy is up for a Hugo award this year and I…still hadn’t read Book 2, The Fated Sky. Time to get on that. It’s been nine years since a meteorite wiped out most of the Eastern US and destroyed the Earth’s climate. In that time
This year’s list of nominated short stories covers a pretty wide range of themes. In this group there are two re-told fairy tales, a portal to another world via a book-loaning program, ruminations on wholesale slaughter by a sentient house, a day in the life (well, week in the life) of a couple of brand
The Hugo Award finalists for 2021 were announced by DisCon III on April 13, 2021. This year’s award ceremony will take place in person (I know, right?) at the 79th Word Science Fiction Convention in Washington DC on December 15-19, 2021. Due to (gestures vaguely in all directions) everything, the award ceremony has been pushed