“So the fairy silver brought you a monster of fire for a husband, and me a monster of ice. We should put them in a room together and let them make us both widows.” Naomi Novik’s Hugo-nominated novel is a Russian-themed fairy tale that starts with three women: a moneylender, a poor farmer’s daughter, and
Memorial Day weekend is the perfect time to sit back, relax, and finish reading one of the longer novels I’ve got in my to-be-read pile. …so of course I decided to skip that plan and read a bunch of short stories instead. Click the jump for a look at this year’s Hugo Award nominees for
Next up on our Hugo Awards coverage is two more of the Best Novella nominees. Click the jump for a review of Martha Wells’ “Artificial Condition” and P. Djèlí Clark’s “The Black God’s Drums”.
The date of the Hugo Awards (August 15th in Dublin, Ireland) is coming up fast, time to get moving on these reviews. Click the jump for a review of two candidates for Best Novella.
Annihilation, the movie written and directed by Alex Garland, based on Jeff VanderMeer’s book, is up for a Hugo Award. Kathryn saw the movie, enjoyed it, and remembered Elizabeth had read the book and reviewed it, so she suggested Elizabeth watch the movie. This was the conversation the next day. (Warning, some spoilers below.) Elizabeth
Just in time to start choosing my summer reading list, the Hugo Awards finalists for 2019 have been announced! This year I’ve already read two of the novels, two of the novellas, and one short story; if I can catch up on the rest of them before August then I might actually read some of
The Hugo Award ceremony is this Sunday, August 19! Click the jump for an updated list of the finalists, including links to reviews, where you can find the stories (for free or for purchase) and my guesses for who might win the award.
Only five more days until the Hugo Award ceremony, time for one more nominee review! Writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Fiona Staples are still telling the story of an average family (average here meaning uniquely dysfunctional and totally alien, just like every family in existence) in the middle of a galactic war, and the
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