The Hugo Awards for 2021 have been announced! Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists! Check out the full list of the finalists, with links to the Pixelated Geek reviews.
Welcome to a new world of luxury living in Arcadia Gardens, an exclusive, upscale gated community! Every thought and care has been taken to provide the ultimate in amenities, privacy, serenity, and, most important, safety for you and yours. Sophia has the perfect life. Every morning she wakes up in her beautiful home, surrounded by
My darling girl, I love you, have courage, and keep far away from Orion Lake. Book Two of Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy starts right where Book One left off, with a note smuggled in by an incoming Freshman and delivered to Galadriel – “El” to her friends, which she’s eternally shocked she actually has now
I read Natasha Pulley’s debut novel while on a family vacation to Yellowstone National Park, and I read her second while on a family vacation to Asheville, North Carolina. Apparently I’m making a real habit of this, since my family started our long-delayed vacation to Boone, North Carolina last month and Pulley released a brand
“The unique layout of LitenVärld encourages wormholes to form between universes. These wormholes connect our stores to LitenVärlds in parallel worlds.” Nino Cipri’s story Finna is the last novella that was left for me to read in the Hugo nominations for 2021. At 92 pages it’s also the shortest novella, and the most weirdly lighthearted.
…when people joke and call me Riot Baby for being born when I was, it ain’t with any kind of affection, but something more complicated… Tochi Anyebuchi’s Hugo-nominated novella starts in Los Angeles just before the Rodney King riots. Kev is born in a Los Angeles hospital in the middle of the riot, almost dying
A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun Rebecca Roanhorse’s previous Hugo-nominated novel (and debut book) was set in a dystopian future of climate disaster and Navajo legends come to life. Her latest book has also been nominated for Best Novel, and this one is set in the distant
She belonged with the Librarians, and she would prove it. My first experience with Sarah Gailey’s Wild West novellas was the Hugo-nominated hippo-themed caper, River of Teeth. Gailey’s latest Hugo-nominated novella, Upright Women Wanted, is also set in the Wild West, although a lot further removed from 1890’s Louisiana than you may at first realize.
“Overse added, “Just remember you’re not alone here.” I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.” Martha Wells has already received a Hugo Award for two of the novellas in her Murderbot Diaries series, so it’s no surprise