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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 18: More effing awards – but seriously I love them – and two books I liked but didn’t love
Books Read The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan The Night Clocks by Paul Meloy The Reflection by Hugo Wilcken Currently Reading In the Skin of a Monster by Kathryn Barker (1) This week my review of Tade Thompson’s...
Read MoreWeek 17: Don’t Look Away – it’s the HUGOOOOOS, oh and the Clarke Awards and a truly fantastic book
Books Read Into Everywhere by Paul McAuley The Shore by Sara Taylor Currently Reading The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan (1) This week saw the announcement of the Hugo Award and Clarke Award nominees – one rinsing the taste of...
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 MoreAnd now The Kitschie nominees have been announced…
I love the Kitschie awards and I’ve waited with bated breath for this year’s Red and Golden Tentacle shortlists to be announced. (This year’s announcement was two weeks later than last year’s sending me...
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 MoreWho Blogs These Days Anyway?
So it’s been nearly two months since I last blogged. Well, maybe more like six weeks. In that time Sophie Zara Mond has reached the eight week mark and I’ve been going to bed increasingly earlier. (There are times...
Read MoreThe Oscars Fall Out
Last night Jules and I had fellow Shooting the Poo podcasters, Mitch and Dave (and Emma), over to watch the Oscars. (Mostly in fast forward).* Because Jules and I and the rest of us were on a social media blackout we...
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