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Brief Thoughts On This Year’s Nebula Award Novel and Novella Shortlists
The Nebulas were announced last week, and yet it’s only now that I’ve decided to apply...
Read MoreWeek 19 / 20: The Nebulas are awarded, a fluid identity and the greatest anthropologists of the American People
Books Read In the Skin of a Monster by Kathryn Barker A Single Stone by Meg McKinlay The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Currently Reading Children of the Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay (1) I skipped a week. That’s...
Read MoreWeek 15: Lots of Nominees, Exposition Sucks and Great World Building but Shame about the Story…
Books Read Barsk: The Elephant’s Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen Updraft by Fran Wilde Currently Reading The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (1) The nominees for two major awards were announced this week. The first was the...
Read MoreWeek 14: Tiptree Award, The Dragon Awards and GO READ THE FIFTH SEASON!
Books Read The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett Currently Reading Barsk: The Elephant’s Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen (1) Not much to comment on this week other than the fact that I...
Read MoreWeek 13: Hugo Votes, Malignant Woods and Dudebros Attitudes
Books Read Uprooted by Naomi Novik Currently Reading Just Finished The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (1) Because the deadline for Hugo nominations will have come and gone by the time this post goes live, I thought I’d share my...
Read MoreWeek 12: Republishing Tom Disch (my reviews, not his books, sadly) and Ancient Chinese influences
Books Read The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu Currently Reading Uprooted by Naomi Novik (1) I’ve decided to republish my reviews of Thomas Disch’s novels. Back in 2009 (was it really 7 years ago?) in preparation for a...
Read MoreThe Nebula Award nominees for Best Novel have been announced…
Here are the seven finalists for best novel. (The full list of nominees can be found here). Raising Caine, Charles E. Gannon (Baen) The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit...
Read MoreAn Analysis of 2015’s Literary and Genre Awards: Part 3 – Subjectivity
What you’re all dying to know in this the third and final part of my analysis of Literary and Genre Awards is what were the best and worst shortlists for 2015. Of course the subjectivity here is all mine and the mileage...
Read MoreWho Should Have Won the Nebula Awards’s Best Novel category…?
Here is a friendly reminder of who was nominated for the Best Novel category with links to my pithy reviews: The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor) Trial by Fire, Charles E. Gannon (Baen) Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit...
Read MoreBook Review: Coming Home by Jack McDevitt
What’s It About Set thousands of the year into the future, the intrepid, determined and suave Alex Benedict, with his female pilot Chase Kolpath, continue to search for artifacts lost during Earth’s first space age....
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