On the left-hand wall, in letters eighteen inches high, someone had scratched: They Can Hear You Thinking T. Kingfisher, author of delightful and award-winning fantasy/sci-fi stories, returns to the horror genre this month with her latest novel, The Hollow Places. The Glory to God Museum of Natural Wonders, Curiosities, and Taxidermy in the little town
Reality was deep, and it was far. It held many secrets and went on forever. It’s time for the annual Spooky Books month! The entire month of October will be devoted to reviews of scary reads: new horror, classic horror, and at least one book that’s been out for a while but I haven’t read
If you do not learn the things I have to teach you. If you do not help. The time will come and you will fail, and this city will join Pompeii and Atlantis and a dozen others whose names no one remembers, even though hundreds of thousands of people died with them. N.K. Jemisin’s short
I just wanted to do a quick review of C.J. Cherryh’s Resurgence, just because three books ago I said I wouldn’t review any more of her Foreigner novels; I didn’t want to keep bagging on them, how tedious I thought they’d gotten, how much exposition was crammed in them, and how there were just too many
I set your shoes on fire. I finally got around to reading the latest Night Vale novel and whoo boy. This one, wow, this one stands out from all the previous novels, and even from the source material in the podcast. The book we have here takes a shadowy and occasionally whimsical character and
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