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
If we address stories as archaeological sites, and dust through their layers with meticulous care, we find at some point there is always a doorway. Alix E. Harrow is up for two Hugo Awards this year, one for the lovely short story “Do Not Look Back, My Lion” and one for The Ten Thousand Doors
Since Kathryn is handling all the Hugo Awards news, I thought I’d post the Nebula finalists! Here’s the press release we just received today, including all the nominees, the partnership with Podium Audio, and how the Awards will be presented online: May 27, 2020 – SFWA’s 2020 Nebula Awards will be one of the
Back in its day, at least, it would have been a monument to wealth and beauty. In the present it was a castle that had been killed. The Emperor of the First House (King of the Nine Renewals, the Necrolord Prime) has issued a summons to the other eight Houses. The heir to each House
Empire was empire – the part that seduced and the part that clamped down, jaws like a vise, and shook a planet until its neck was broken and it died. Next up in the Hugo nominees is Arkady Martine’s novel of interplanetary intrigue, A Memory Called Empire. The book’s cover art of a lone figure
Next up on the Hugo finalists are two novellas, one set in outer space and other in a Cairo of the early 1900’s that looks very different from the one we know, what with the djinn and all. Click the jump to read reviews of stories by Becky Chambers and P. Djèlí Clark.
TIMELINE: FIVE MINUTES TOO LATE, THIRTY SECONDS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD. Next up for the Hugo-nominations is Seanan McGuire’s novel Middlegame, something which I really should have read during last October’s Scary Books month, because oh boy does this ever qualify. The plan begins in 1886, with the brilliant alchemist Asphodel who’s going