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Interview with Author Emily Tesh
Emily Tesh is a UK-based author of science fiction and fantasy. Her debut novel, Some Desperate Glory, won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Tesh is also a winner of the Astounding Award, and the author...
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Anime Review: Fire Force
Familiar but well-paced plotting with a post-apocalyptic twist.Without much fanfare or hype, stalwart anime Fire Force is ending its brief but enjoyable run with the airing of its third and final...
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Film Review: A Minecraft Movie
Getting squared away for the chicken jockeyFrom eighth grade to freshman year of college I was an avid Minecraft player. I still associate the word ‘hoe’ with the farming implement far more than its...
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Book Review: Birth of a Dynasty: A Novel by Chinaza Bado
A rich and interesting start to an epic fantasy story that may not suit all readers.I don’t normally put cautions or content warnings in my reviews, it's not been my general practice. But I am going to...
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Rebellions Are Built on Hope: Andor S2E4
A year after the trauma of Min-Rau, Cassian and Bix have uneasy peace on CoruscantAndor has always had a heavy pour of spy thriller in it, part of which I’ve attributed to showrunner Tony Gilroy’s...
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Review: Thunderbolts*
Who will gain the world, and who will lose their soul?I think it is fair to say that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been flailing around since Endgame. The decade’s worth of intertwined storytelling...
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Review: Clown in a Cornfield
The kids are alright—try telling that to the parentsOne of the things that comes so piercingly apparent to young people growing up in America is that America hates you. In the ideology of the ruling...
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Book Review: Quantum Garden by Derek Künsken
Quantum Garden follows up on The Quantum Magician by throwing a new and pressing problem at Bel: the destruction of his own peopleBeing a Homo quantus, even one that has pulled the biggest con job in...
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Film Review: The King Tide
What if we were really nice to the kid in Omelas?Life has proceeded uneventfully on a secluded island of fishermen, somewhere in Canada, for many generations. But one day, during a storm, a boat...
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Book Review: Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era
An unexpectedly enjoyable deep dive into the storytelling of Star Trek in the twenty-first century Adam Kotsko’s Late Star Trek is an unexpectedly enjoyable deep dive into the storytelling of Star Trek...
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Book Review: Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi
Playing with language, tone and contrast to make something that feels familiar and new at the same time.This is a story of juxtapositions. Tone and content and setting and expectations and language,...
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Film Review: Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Your mission — if you choose to accept it — is to enjoy the spectacular stunt pieces while ignoring the uncharacteristically bad dialogue in this final film of the series. 30 years after the very first...
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Book Review: The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Bear adds pirates, a chewy social drama, and a big alien puzzle to her White Space space opera universe. Sunya is a researcher traveling to the edge of the galaxy. She studies information and...
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Rebellions Are Built on Hope: Andor S2E5
Disaster is around every corner for Cassian and his comrades.In episode four, “I Have Friends Everywhere,” Cassian goes off to Ghorman undercover as a fashion designer while Syril plays double agent...
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Andor and the Reimagining of Star Wars
Star Wars, as a franchise, is almost 50 years old. It remains extraordinarily popular - as much or more than any other cinematic universe. At the same time, nearly all Star Wars properties are divisive...
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Realm of the Elderlings Project: The Liveship Traders Book 3: Ship of Destiny
A magnificent tapestry of genius, marred by an unfortunate dog turd in the cornerCover art by Stephen YoullRobin Hobb is rightly acknowledged to be a wizard of characterization, and I have seen many...
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Film Review: Lilo & Stitch
If Disney live-action remakes were generally this good, they would still be making them After the live-action Snow White bombed, Disney announced that it would be halting development on all future...
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Review: The Immeasurable Heaven by Caspar Geon
A woolly, wild space opera that boldly strides into high-octane multiverse space operaWhen it comes to dealing with, and coming to terms with, books like Caspar Geon’s The Immeasurable Heaven, one has...
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Goodbye, Fifteenth Doctor. Hope to see you soon, Doctor Who
A clumsy finale should not overshadow a cleverly written season and a fantastic protagonistRecency bias being what it is, viewers of this season of Doctor Who (season 2 or 15 or 41, depending on how...
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Rebellions Are Built on Hope: Andor S2E6
As things heat up on Ghorman, episode six provides an important look into Luthen's character.Episode six, “What a Festive Evening” marks the end of the second small arc out of four. The next arc is,...
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The October Daye Reread: A Killing Frost
Welcome back, dear readers. Today we’re going to revisit the fourteenth novel in Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series: A Killing Frost. We are now in the midst of a real push to catch up to publication...
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Film Review: Fountain of Youth
A star-studded rehash of familiar archeology adventure tropesTropes work for a reason. They give us predictability with a twist: a familiar premise or character type presented in a new way that both...
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Book Review: City in Chains
A well-executed fantasy story that is fighting yesterday's battlesI am going to be up front with the reader here and now: I cannot ever be fully objective about the oeuvre of Harry Turtledove. When I...
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Book Review: Red Sword by Bora Chung (tr. Anton Hur)
A gut-punch in book form.A while ago, Molly Templeton wrote a piece at Reactor about not needing to understand everything in a book that I vibed with so very hard - I am quite a "roll with it" reader...
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Interview with Natania Barron
Today, Paul Weimer talks with his longtime friend, Natania Barron, about her Queens series.1. Can you introduce yourself to our readers unfamiliar with you and your work?I'm Natania Barron, a fantasy...
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