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
It feels weird to take a break from the San Diego Comic-Con coverage to review some comic books, but since we’re down to the last handful of issues of IDW’s Transformers, I’ve got a limited window for gushing over artists and yelling at writers who break my heart. (Or writers who confuse me. Which is
“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
So, the story. With no spoilers at all. Hm. I liked it? The end. Kidding.
*hyperventilating* *talking too fast* We’ve only got a few more issues (seven counting this one) of Lost Light and that’s plenty of time to answer a lot of questions except we’ve been waiting for the resolution of the Getway thing for a year now GO FASTER. Sorry. See below for a spoiler-free review of Transformers
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
This time around Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) has been on house arrest since his capture in Captain America: Civil War. Having only three days left on his house sentence, he suddenly has a vision of the Quantum Realm, sending Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) back into his life. Hank and