Elizabeth Bear returned this March to the main character from Karen Memory with a brand new novella. Click the jump to learn about a story of spiritualists, mad science, a misplaced mine goblin, and a little of what happens after “and they lived happily ever after.”
It’s that time again, the finalists for the 2018 Hugo Awards have been announced! I’ve only read four of the 114 nominees this year so far, so I have quite a bit of catching up to do… This will be the same format as last year: between now and when the winners are announced on
In 2010, authors Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell released two intertwined novellas, “The Alchemist” and “The Executioness”. This February, Saga Press re-released both of those novellas along with two brand new stories in the collection The Tangled Lands. All four of these stories are set in the city of Khaim, last remnant of a legendary
“…I don’t think anyone knows how to turn the wonder-engine off.” The second book of The Clocktaur War series finds the characters right where we left them at the end of Book 1: still trying to find the source of the monstrous clocktaurs that have been rampaging across the countryside. The little team consisting of
Tonight was pretty amazing for me. I went to Warwick’s in La Jolla, CA (10 miles north of San Diego) to see Andre Aciman (Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, and Harvard Square, and the editor of The Proust Project) in conversation with Beth Accomando (Reporter for KPBS
The rules of the school are simple. Heal. Hope. And if you can, find your way back where you belong. No solicitation. No visitors. No quests. It’s lucky that the students at Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children aren’t used to following rules, because in Seanan McGuire’s latest story in the Hugo Award-winning Wayward Children
The one truth you need to know about the end of a machine is that the closer they are to death, the more they act like people. And you could never trust people. The long-feared robot uprising finally happened, and humanity lost. More than lost actually; it’s been wiped out. The last human left was
At the end of Anne Rice’s The Mummy, the centuries-old Egyptian pharaoh Ramses the Damned has given the elixir of immortality to his lover Julie Stratford, the heiress who first introduced him to the world of Edwardian England. Meanwhile, Ramses’s former lover Queen Cleopatra awakens in a remote hospital in the Egyptian wilderness, having somehow
I actually read this book right after Ursula Vernon won the Hugo for her story “The Tomato Thief” but I hadn’t had a chance to review it (“hadn’t had a chance” should be read as “didn’t get organized and stop procrastinating long enough” but I think most people assumed that was the case.) I didn’t