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Brief Thoughts on The Kitschies shortlist
While everyone else is discussing The Hugo Award finalists, I thought I’d have a brief chat...
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 16: Pulitzers, Brilliant Kelly Link and not being in on the joke
Books Read The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood Currently Reading Into Everywhere by Paul McAuley (1) This year’s Pulitzer prize for fiction was awarded to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s début novel The Sympathizer which I...
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 11: Man Booker in Translation, Pocket Universes and Other Books I Can’t Discuss
Books Read Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson Kingfisher by Patricia A. McKillip Making Wolf by Tade Thompson Currently Reading The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu (1) This year the administrators of the Man Booker have decided to...
Read MoreThe Kitschie Award Winners Have Been Announced
Fourteen minutes after the nominees went live (small, though apt exaggeration, but seriously it was two weeks ago!), the Kitschie award winners have been announced. The full list of winners can be found here. The Red Tentacle...
Read MoreWeek 9: Clever Cliches, Awkward Sex Scenes and an Enjoyable Pot Boiler
Books Read Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald Currently Reading The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard (1) This has been a week of podcasts with one recorded and published on the weekend (Coode Street Roundtable episode...
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 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...
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