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Book Review: Sunrise on the Reaping
This Hunger Games prequel explores Haymitch Abernathy's backstory—a gift for die-hard fans, even if it follows the usual formulaIn 2023, we got President Snow's prequel: The Ballad of Songbirds and...
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Video Game Review: Hollow Knight Voidheart Edition by Team Cherry
Before you enter the world of silk and song, fill your heart with the void.For those of you who may have dodged the indie gaming scene since 2017, Hollow Knight is one of the sparkling gems that come...
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TV Review: Severance season 2
After you've betrayed yourself, can you trust yourself again?After its season 1 ended in a thrilling cliffhanger, Severance took its sweet time to return to screens. And it (literally) hit the ground...
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Book Review: Idolfire by Grace Curtis
An engaging and entertaining novel that does most, but not quite everything, that it says on the tinIn a world of fallen empires, lost gods and the power to channel divinity, Kirby, a young woman from...
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Book Review: A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang
A vividly stylised tale of a woman pulled from her homeland and all she knows into a baffling and hostile new world.A Palace Near the Wind, the new novella from Ai Jiang, follows Lufeng as she is...
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Book Review: When the Moon Hits Your Eye, by John Scalzi
I have a confession to make: when I first heard of When the Moon Hits Your Eye I was *deeply* skeptical. I’ve been riding with John Scalzi since day one (to be transparent, I didn’t find out about the...
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Film Review: Snow White
A mix of promising moments and distracting production choices. Long before Disney Princesses were a corporate trademark, fans flocked to Disney’s fairy tale adaptations on the big screen. Over the...
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Realm of the Elderlings Project, The Liveship Traders Book 1: Ship of Magic
Chonky epic fantasy at its absolute bestCover art by Stephen YoullAh, at last we come to the Liveship Traders, which in my memory is the finest subseries within the whole Realm of the Elderlings saga....
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TV Review: A.A.R.O.
Come for the Paranormal Mystery of the Week, stay for the animist theodicyTo the Western viewer, likely acquainted with The X Files, Fringe, Supernatural and Evil, a show like A.A.R.O. may at first...
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Book Review: Point of Hearts by Melissa Scott
Continuing the story of Philip and Nico, and their secondary world next door fantasy city of Astreaint.In recent months, Queen of Swords Press has reissued the 1990’s fantasy Points series, set in a...
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Book Review: Doomflower by Jendia Gammon
Jendia Gammon’s Doomflower is a love letter to 1980’s teen high school drama science fiction and disaster movies of the 50’s and 80’s, with a modern sensibility and feel. Camellia Dume has it all....
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Book Review: Murder Your Employer, by Rupert Holmes
Don't take the title literally I must confess I read this book for the title. There is a certain hilarious bluntness in the name Murder Your Employer that most books vaguely gesturing in that direction...
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Book Review: Of Ash and Salt by Daniel McGee
An intriguing secondary fantasy world that capably hits many of the expected notes of epic fantasySometimes, only a proper multi-POV epic fantasy in the classic style (or seemingly so) will do. There...
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Book Review Transmentation | Transience by Darkly Lem
A rich, wide-angle look at a multiversal society and those who would seek to support, change, and undermine itMultiverses. Multiverses are cool. I’ve always thought so. Be it the Eternal Champion of...
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Book Review: City of All Seasons by Oliver K. Langmead and Aliya Whiteley
A two-sided novel that defies expectations—in structure, genre, worldbuilding and moreImagine a city sliced in two: one half trapped in perpetual, burning summer and the other in bitter, scouring...
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Film Review: Hell of a Summer
A camp slasher homage that gets an A for effort, but doesn't really deliver thrills or chillsHell of a Summer has a pretty neat origin story: Finn Wolfhard (most famously Mike from Stranger Things) and...
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On the Ground at AwesomeCon 2025
At the Walter E. Washington Convention Center for DC's ComicConFriday, April 4th, 2025 My introduction to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center was coming out of the Mount Vernon Square metro...
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Book Review: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones’ latest novel delivers on the promise of the title with a historical, fantastical spray of blood.Since I heard the concept of this novel last year, it’s been one of my most highly...
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Book Review: Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
A breathlessly intimate story about the irrationality and grossness of being an embodied person, and how that intersects with transness, love and living through history.You know how sometimes you put a...
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Book Review: If Stars are Lit, by Sara K. Ellis
A philosophical meditation on personhood that ends up more enraging than was probably intended It has been a long time since I’ve read a book that engaged me as much as this one, or had me writing so...
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Film Review: The Day the Earth Blew Up
An explosion of fun despite WB's efforts to memory-hole itIt's a small miracle that The Day the Earth Blew Up survived Warner Bros. Discovery's ongoing self-destruction in the pursuit of quick profit....
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Video Game Review: Assassin's Creed Shadows
A fine addition to the Assassin's Creed world, Shadows lets you explore the fascinating world of Sengoku-era JapanThe long-awaited new Assassin's Creed entry, Shadows, takes players to feudal Japan in...
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Series Review: Black Mirror Season 7
Strong acting and innovative stories explore our difficult relationship with technologyHumanity’s interaction with technology returns as a timely primary theme in the latest season of Black Mirror....
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Book Review: The Estate by Sarah Jost
A version of the story of a famous sculptor’s relationship with an even more famous one, using an art buyer’s ability to enter the worlds of art as her genre hookCamille Leray has a special ability,...
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Whose Science Fiction: Recognition and its Absence in a Reading of...
A deeply thoughtful collection that muses on the nature of SF and its sub-categories, though not one without blind spotsCover art by Tom JoyesI am not, by nature, someone uninterested in history; my...
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