When elephants fight, the grass suffers. The treaty that Binti created in the first novella of this trilogy is now over. The tensions between the Khoush and the Meduse erupted into violence again, this time on planet Earth, and her tribe is caught in the middle. Binti hasn’t even had time to process all the
Vacation is over, so it’s time to get back to work and tackle the growing list of new books, starting with some of the latest releases. …or I could go with the book Charlie N. Holmberg released last May, The Plastic Magician. I’ve been waiting for this one, since it’s been a couple of years since
The Hugo Award ceremony is this Sunday, August 19! Click the jump for an updated list of the finalists, including links to reviews, where you can find the stories (for free or for purchase) and my guesses for who might win the award.
Only five more days until the Hugo Award ceremony, time for one more nominee review! Writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Fiona Staples are still telling the story of an average family (average here meaning uniquely dysfunctional and totally alien, just like every family in existence) in the middle of a galactic war, and the
The second volume of Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s ongoing series Monstress is up for a Hugo Award this year for best graphic story, just like volume 1 was up for a Hugo last year, and volume 3 (due out this September) will probably be up for a Hugo next year. This series is just that good. Volume 2 neatly contains
Whew, made it! All entries in the first four categories of the 2018 Hugo nominees read and reviewed before the award ceremony on August 19. Short stories, novelettes, novellas, and novels, including the novel Provenance by Ann Leckie. And in a list of stories that include murder mysteries, con artist capers, incomprehensible alien etiquette, races
“The saying goes, ‘The black tides of heaven direct the courses of human lives.’ To which a wise teacher said, ‘But as with all waters, one can swim against the tide.’” We start with the the head abbot of the Grand Monastery, climbing the eight hundred steps to the Great High Palace of the Protectorate.
The crew of the generation spaceship Dormire wakes up in the middle of a zero-gee slaughter. Floating droplets of blood are everywhere, bodies are hanging in mid air roughly wherever they were stabbed, or poisoned, or strangled. The victims are…the crew. The ship is run entirely by clones, who have no memory of the last twenty-six years. Mur Lafferty’s
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Hugo-nominated novel is set in a Manhattan where some of the worst fears of sea-level rise have already taken place. Don’t expect a Mad-Max-On-Waterskis type of situation though. The year 2140 is far enough into the future that there are plenty of technological advances to keep a 50-foot sea-level rise from getting into the