Tag: Arkady Martine

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Kathryn Adams

Review: “Thornhedge” and “Rose/Hall”

It’s the end of April, there’s less than fifteen weeks until this year’s Hugo Award ceremony, and I’ve got nineteen entries in the main fiction categories to read. So what the heck, we’re doing two novellas this week instead of one. And I swear, I didn’t deliberately pick these two based on similar themes in

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Kathryn Adams

2024 Hugo Awards – The Finalists

WELL. The gigantic trash fire of last year’s nominating process sure was a thing, wasn’t it. It sounds like there’s been a house-cleaning in the committee, and maybe we can hope that all the votes are fairly counted this year, and no one’s getting unfairly disqualified, yes? This year will also be slightly different in

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Kathryn Adams

2022 Hugo Awards – The Finalists

The Hugo Award finalists for 2022 were announced today, and I somehow managed this year to read three of the novels (got Project Hail Mary read just under the wire), two of the novellas, one of the novelettes, a Lodestar Award candidate, and an entire series! Winners will be announced on Sunday, September 4. Check

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Kathryn Adams

Review: A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan Book 2)

To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles – this they name empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. Arkady Martine’s sequel to her Hugo-winning novel A Memory Called Empire picks up two months after the end of Book 1. The hardliners at Lsel Station have gotten exactly what they

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Kathryn Adams

Review: A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan Book 1)

Empire was empire – the part that seduced and the part that clamped down, jaws like a vise, and shook a planet until its neck was broken and it died. Next up in the Hugo nominees is Arkady Martine’s novel of interplanetary intrigue, A Memory Called Empire. The book’s cover art of a lone figure

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