The Hugo Award finalists for 2020 have been announced! The convention (July 29 – August 2) will be online only, for obvious reasons. So there’s less than three months before the award ceremony, and between this year and the retro 1945 awards there are 186 separate finalists and I’ve read…two of the novellas, and a
Why don’t you swallow broken glass. Late at night in the Hotel Caiette, someone writes a vicious and weirdly specific message on the lobby’s glass wall. The strangest part of the whole incident is that it happens so late at night that hardly anyone sees it. The grafitti disturbs the night manager, upsets an insomniac
More comfort reading time! This week I’m only going back to 2012 (or forward to the 2400’s) with John Scalzi’s Redshirts. (Courtesy of a free ebook from Tor Books this month. Thanks guys!) It’s Ensign Andrew Dahl’s first posting, and as luck would have it a position just opened on the Intrepid, flagship of the
So, anyone up for some comfort reading? BECAUSE I SURE AM. This week we’re going all the way back to 1991, and a book I’ve been meaning to read for a while now: Ray Aldridge’s first novel, The Pharaoh Contract, book 1 of The Emancipator series. It follows reluctant enforcer Ruiz Aw, who’s been sent
It took five years for us to get a sequel to Natasha Pulley’s The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, but it was worth it. This book was everything I wanted out of a return to the British translator with synesthesia, and the eccentric Japanese watchmaker who can remember the future. The plot of Book 1 was
The last night had lasted six months in Britain: half an old year of madness, and mayhem, and near-starvation in the dark. And then, agonizingly slowly, the sun had crawled back into the sky as the planet cruised to a stop, the boundaries of day and night locked forever. As apocalypses go, this was one
For all of human existence, mankind has been dancing on the edge of eternity. We’ve courted the Grim Reaper – against our own interest, even – for the entire duration. Every year we come closer to finally tipping the balance and tumbling over that edge. It feels like the governments of Earth are in a
Once a wayward child, always a wayward child Most of the students at Eleanor West’s school never find the door back to the land of their magical childhood adventures, but the Wolcott sisters are two of the lucky(?) ones. When we last saw them, Jacqueline was carrying the dead body of her twin sister Jillian
“…remember that there is not a monster dreamt that hasn’t walked once within the soul of man.” It’s retro book-review week at Pixelated Geek. (“Is that really a thing, or just an excuse to read something more than five years old?” “TOTALLY A THING, MOVING ON.”) Today we’re going all the way back to 2013