I think back to something Qin Zheng once said: “Every oppressor, through their denial of humanity, sows the seeds of their own destruction.” Here we are. The seeds that bloomed. (Warning: Massive spoilers for the end of Iron Widow.) The second book in Xiran Jay Zhao’s (ongoing, yay!) Iron Widow series picks up exactly where
It’s that time of year! The nominees for the 2025 Hugo Awards have been announced, and this year I’ve actually read and reviewed three of the Hugo nominees, plus one of the Lodestar nominees for best YA novel! Check out the full list below (which will be updated on a regular basis as I get
Directed by Jared Hess, A Minecraft Movie follows Four misfits: Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Jason Momoa), Henry (Sebastian Hansen), Natalie (Emma Myers), and Dawn (Danielle Brooks), who find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To
It took a moment for her rage to clear enough for the words to actually register: byt’ uveren. A beat later, she realized why that looked so strange, apart from words having no business on the back of a turtle. They were written in Russian. Be sure. In Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series there are
Directed by Alex Scharfman, Death of a Unicorn follows Elliot Kintner (Paul Rudd) and his teenage daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega) who accidentally hit a unicorn while en route to a crisis management summit with Elliot’s boss, Odell Leopold (Richard E. Grant), and his family. The Leopolds seize the unicorn, and their scientists discover that the
{🚨SEMI-SPOILERS🚨}: Helmed by Robert Kirkman, Invincible Season 3 follows Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun), three months after his battle with Angstrom Levy, who has been training under Cecil’s supervision to gain enough strength to compete with and prepare for incoming Viltrumite threat. But everything changes as Mark is forced to face his past, and his future,
Directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, Novocaine follows Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid), a mild-mannered introvert with a rare disorder called congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), who must rescue his new girlfriend (Amber Midthunder) who has been taken hostage in a bank robbery. For the past few years, there seems to have been a number
“Angels,” I’d told Alizar when I was eight and freshly appalled to discover I was his saint, “are assholes!” And always have been, Ish, said Alizar. You have no idea. I had the idea, just from looking at the titles, that C.S.E. Cooney’s 2023 novel The Twice-Drowned Saint was going to be similar to her
Directed by Bong Joon-ho and based on the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, Mickey 17 follows the financially destitute Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) who wants to get off Earth and signs up to be an “expendable”, a disposable clone worker, on the human colony Niflheim. As an expendable, Mickey undertakes several dangerous assignments he is