It’s Hugo nomination time! (Actually the nominees for 2026 were announced almost three weeks ago, but y’know, vacation…) I’ve read one novel and two of the novellas already this year. Check out the full list below with links to the Pixelated Geek reviews (which will be updated on a regular basis as I get around
Cambridge, Michaelmas Term, October. The wind bit, the sun hid, and on the first day of class, when she ought to have been lecturing undergraduates about the dangers of using the Cartesian severance spell to revise without pee breaks, Alice Law set out to rescue her advisor’s soul from the Eight Courts of Hell. I
Gallacian is possibly the most complicated language in Europe. Among its many quirks are different pronouns for men, women, children, soldiers, priests, rocks, and God. The one for rocks – sha and shan – don’t come up much, but thinking of Hollow Elk Mine, I had a grim feeling that I might have use for
Celia was twelve years old on the day she cursed her brother. Argent’s little sister is too young to understand that Argent is tired. He’s tired of trying to be the knight his father wants him to be, tired of being afraid of what would happen if he isn’t. He’s realized that where his father
Much like the Doors themselves, Eleanor’s rules were simple and absolute: No solicitation. No visitors. No quests. Nancy was one of the first Wayward Children we were introduced to in Book One of Seanan McGuire’s series, and also one of the first to find her way back to the world that Eleanor West’s school was
Where there was hunger, there was desperation, and eventually, the belly cried louder than the children, or the elderly, or the dead. For a series that stars a gender-neutral cleric and their sassy neixin companion (bird-shaped, but most definitely not a bird, don’t be rude), Nghi Vo’s Singing Hills series can get surprisingly dark. The
It’s almost 2026! Boy, 2025 was quite a year, wasn’t it? There’s time for one more book review, and I can’t think of a more appropriate choice than a T. Kingfisher story about a young woman who finally decides she’s had enough of the crap that life has dumped on her, and nopes out to
I’ll tell you about rage, and a complicated man. Another big family vacation, another novel by Natasha Pulley to enjoy! Regular readers of my reviews will know that I love a good retold myth. So a story about the Greek god of wine and madness is right in my wheelhouse. Although it was also a
He investigates and remembers; she analyzes, evaluates, and spies hidden truths in all he witnessed. Together, they bring justice to the Empire. Congratulations are in order for Robert Jackson Bennett! Bennett’s novel The Tainted Cup won a Hugo award this year for Best Novel. And as luck would have it we have a sequel this