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
The original plan was to review the first of the Hugo-nominated novels this week. However, I’ve been enjoying the book so much that I want to take another few days to read it (check back later week for a review of that). Therefore I’m changing course and reviewing three of the Hugo-nominated novelettes instead. This
If there are two words that can describe this year’s nominees for Best Short Story, it would be “triumphant” and “bleak”. Every one of them features someone overcoming a trial, whether it’s living life on their own terms, or making the hard decision to sacrifice their life for others. These are all lyrical and fierce,
Stephen’s god died a little after noon on the longest day of the year. Paladin’s Grace has a hell of a first line. I finished reading it last month, kept procrastinating about writing a review, and then decided it’d been so long I needed to reread it in order to write a decent review. If