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Interview: FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction
Congratulations to FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction for their Hugo nomination for Best Semiprozine!In 2016, Fireside magazine published the #BlackSpecFic report. Within hours, a powerful...
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6 Books with Aliette de Bodard
Aliette de Bodard writes speculative fiction: she has won three Nebula Awards, a Locus Award and four British Science Fiction Association Awards, and was a double Hugo finalist for 2019 (Best Series...
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Black Lives Matter: A List of Stories
In solidarity with the international protests supporting Black Lives Matter, most recently protesting over the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Niko Smith, and Miciah Lee.Many...
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Microreview [book]: The Relentless Moon, by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Relentless Moon is hopeful science fiction. It is a novel about striving towards excellence and truly building a better tomorrow even in the face of a devastating future.The first two Lady...
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Interview: Kathleen Jennings, author of Flyaway
Kathleen Jennings' Australian gothic mystery novella Flyaway will hit bookstore shelves at the end of July. The uncanny story takes place in a small town that is full of secrets. A quiet young...
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Interview: Fireside Magazine
Congratulations to Julia Rios and Elsa Sjunneson at Fireside Magazine, for their Hugo nomination for Best SemiProZine!Fireside Magazine started in 2012, and since then has grown into a monthly...
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Summer Reading List 2020: Joe
There are many things in this life which I really, really like. Two of them are reading books and making lists. A third would be making lists about reading books. Strangely, I'm not sure if I want to...
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Interview: Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Congratulations to Beneath Ceaseless Skies for their Hugo nomination for Best Semiprozine!Beneath Ceaseless Skies was started in 2008, and since then the magazine has published original fiction every...
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Summer Reading List 2020: Paul
While winter is for reading and trying to stay warm in the Great White North when the Ice Giants and the White Dragons roam the wastelands of Minnesota, summer is for getting out there and enjoying the...
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Microreview [Comic]: Doomsday Clock by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank
Hey-look-at-me-I'm-doing-Watchmen comic with some nice touches, impossible ambitions and silly moralsDC Comics did a fine job in resisting the urge to do a Watchmen sequel. It took them 30 years to...
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Summer Reading List 2020: Spacefaring Kitten
I don't like summer, specifically, but usually reading makes it more bearable. Here's my summer reading list for 2020.The Texas-Israeli War: 1999 by Jake Saunders and Howard WaldropWhat, according to...
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Microreview [Book]: Burn by Patrick Ness
Dragons flying through the sky during the Cold War just scratches the surface of this novel's mind-blowing oddities.Imagine a fire that’s spread throughout an entire town. The conflagration is hellbent...
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Summer Reading List 2020: Adri
This is set to be an interesting summer for reading: on the one hand, there are going to be no holiday breaks or long plane journeys to really pack in the pages , but on the other, there's plenty of...
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Microreview [Book]: Annhilation Aria by Mike Underwood
Mike Underwood’s Annihilation Aria melds the author’s deep and abiding knowledge of tropes and science fiction with an entertaining and rollicking adventure well suited to our time and moment.Max has a...
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Summer Reading List 2020: The G
It's that time of year again (which of course you already know since we've been running these all week long). But ever since 2012, when I started our annual Summer Reading tradition, it's been the post...
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Interview: Strange Horizons
Congratulations to Strange Horizons for their Hugo nomination for Best Semiprozine!Strange Horizons got it's start way back in 2000, and it's always been a home for fiction that pushes the envelope....
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Interview: Escape Pod
Congratulations to Escape Pod co-editors Mur Lafferty and S.B. Divya for their Hugo nomination for Best Semiprozine!Launched in 2005, Escape Pod is the original genre podcast. Escape Pod has been...
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Reading the Hugos: Series
Welcome to the first article in the 2020 Edition of Reading the Hugos, where I try to cram as much Hugo related content into my brain in as short a time as possible so I can talk about what's on the...
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Questing in Shorts: June 2020
I haven't had the best reading month in June, and coupled with this being the earliest possible "Last Thursday", I am in the sorry position of having not read enough short fiction for a normal roundup....
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Microreview [Book]: Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott
A triumphant and fully measured return to Space Opera by one of the Empresses of FantasyIn Kate Elliott’s long career, her work has mainly conquered vast realms of fantasy. From the Crown of Stars...
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