I’d really enjoyed Camille Griep’s 2015 novel Letters to Zell, so when I was looking for something to distract myself from, well, everything, I decided to try her 2016 novel New Charity Blues. This book is a dystopian fantasy in a United States that’s been devastated by a pandemic and NO WAIT HANG ON IT’S
“Harrowhark Nonagesimus – I really think you should consider the idea that you might also be haunted.” The sequel to Tamsyn Muir’s Hugo-nominated debut novel is out, and if anything Harrow the Ninth is even more Gothic, decadent, weird, violent, gruesome, and gorgeous than the first book. Gideon the Ninth ended with Harrowhark becoming a
The winners of the 2020 Hugo Awards were announced this weekend, and while the award ceremony needs a lot of improvement (mispronouncing names in a live ceremony would be careless; doing it repeatedly in a prerecorded video is just bizarre), there were some amazing stories in all the categories, and the wins were well-deserved. Click
“Has the Castle changed much?” “Nah, it schtill thinks it’s fonny.” “Oh come on,” the Castle said, “this is hilarious.” It’s been a few years since we’ve had a new Girl Genius novelization, but it’s been worth the wait. This latest installment of the adventures of Agatha Girl Genius finds us once again in the
John Scalzi wraps up The Interdependency trilogy this year with The Last Emperox. The interstellar phenomenon known as The Flow is disappearing, meaning the thousands of artificial habits that make up the Interdependency will soon be cut off from any source of necessary materials. And food. And eventually air. Emperox Grayland II is trying to
They were closer to the night than the day, so they could just make out the ice shelf where the sea froze. But if you squinted at the horizon on your right, you could see where the water hit daylight and boiled, creating a wall of steam so high you couldn’t see the top. Woo
Rick and Morty are back, baby! They never even left! Reruns, dog! Streaming! Anyway, get back to exploring the creation of this beloved TV series with its comical characters and their interdimensional counterparts, wack-a-doo aliens, and far-out locations. The Art of Rick and Morty Volume 2 and The Art of Rick and Morty Volume 2: Deluxe Edition hardcover artbooks
The fastest way to travel from one front to the next is to turn us into light. Only two more novels left to read for this year’s Hugo Awards! This week’s review is for Kameron Hurley’s dystopian war novel, The Light Brigade. We see the war through the eyes of Dietz, an idealistic young soldier…okay,
Ted Chiang is up for two Hugo awards this year, one novelette (“Omphalos”) and one novella (Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom). I was able to get ahold of the book they’re collected in, so I’m taking an easy week and just reading those two stories. Ha! Just kidding, it’s a short-story collection, of course