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 MoreWhat 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 MoreAs a reminder here are the nominees (you’ll note that they’re a little different to the nominees that were originally announced with Marko Kloos deciding to pull his novel for consideration. More props to him)....
Read MoreWhat’s It About It’s an alien invasion novel that features the Cultural Revolution, a computer game that incorporates the entirety of Western and Eastern scientific thought and a series of jaw dropping set pieces. Representative...
Read MoreWhat’s It About Maia is the only son of the fourth wife of the Emperor of the Elflands. Following his mother’s premature death, the Emperor (not the most loving of fathers) banishes him to a household in the middle of nowhere...
Read MoreWhat’s It About Newly appointed Captain Breq – you may know her from the multi-award winning novel Ancillary Justice - has been given a warship, the Mercy of Kalr, and ordered by Anaander Mianaai, Lord of the Radch – or at...
Read MoreWhat’s It About While it’s book fifteen of the Harry Dresden series all you really need to know is that (a) Harry is wizard, (b) it’s essentially a heist novel and (c) the book mostly, though not entirely, stands alone....
Read MoreWhat’s It About I only read a third of the novel, but apparently it’s set twenty years after the 7-novels that form The Saga of the Seven Suns. So it’s both a Book One and a Book Eight. Representative Paragraph Because...
Read MoreIf you regularly read this blog and have no idea that the Hugo Award nominees were announced to some controversy then you’re a unique sort of person. Well done! The full list of the nominees can be found here. If...
Read MoreAt about 5:30 this morning Melbourne, while I slumbered innocently, the Hugo Award nominations for 2014 were announced. The full list is here. I could sleep because, as Jonathan Strahan pointed out on an episode of Coode...
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