Tag: Naomi Novik

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Kathryn Adams

Review: The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance Book 3)

She will bring death and destruction to all the enclaves in the world. The final book of Namoi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy picks up where Book 2 left off. Galadriel “El” Higgins, destined to be a force of destruction, has instead helped to save her fellow students, from the most terrified freshman to every well-connected graduate.

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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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2021 Hugo Awards – The Winners

The Hugo Awards for 2021 have been announced! Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists! Check out the full list of the finalists, with links to the Pixelated Geek reviews.

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Review: The Last Graduate (Scholomance Lesson Two)

My darling girl, I love you, have courage, and keep far away from Orion Lake. Book Two of Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy starts right where Book One left off, with a note smuggled in by an incoming Freshman and delivered to Galadriel – “El” to her friends, which she’s eternally shocked she actually has now

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Kathryn Adams

2021 Hugo Awards – The Finalists

The Hugo Award finalists for 2021 were announced by DisCon III on April 13, 2021. This year’s award ceremony will take place in person (I know, right?) at the 79th Word Science Fiction Convention in Washington DC on December 15-19, 2021. Due to (gestures vaguely in all directions) everything, the award ceremony has been pushed

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Review: A Deadly Education (The Scholomance Book 1)

I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life. Welcome to the Scholomance, high school for a few thousand budding magic-users. Also home to an uncounted number of deadly magical creatures (“mals”) lurking in cupboards, under desks, in the bathrooms, crawling through the air ducts, and slowly congregating in

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Spinning Silver

“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

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2019 Hugo Awards – The Finalists

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

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2017 Hugo Awards – The Finalists

The Hugo Awards are this Friday, 7:30 PM Eastern European time (that’s 12:30 in the afternoon for those of us on the East Coast). The Worldcon 75 youtube channnel should be streaming the ceremony live, just in case you’d like to watch the announcement for Best Novel (or Best Editor Short Form, if that’s what

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