Reading the Hugos: Novelette
Welcome back for another edition of Reading the Hugos, 2020 Edition. Today we're going to take a look at the six finalists for Best Novelette.Novelette is inherently a weird category. There's not...
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Adri Joins the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards: Round 1 Results
Readers may remember that way back in February, I signed on with a group of fabulous fellow bloggers and SFF nerds on a speculative awards project: the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards. Each member of...
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Microreview [book]: Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders, a Dominion of the Fallen...
Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders, a Dominion of the Fallen Story is a delightful entry in the growing angelic apocalypse devastated Paris, focusing on a family holiday visit to the Dragon Kingdom by the...
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Interview: Devin Madson, author of We Ride The Storm
Devin Madson writes fantasy novels that revolve around fighting for what you believe in, loyalty, betrayal, risky alliances, finding friends in unexpected places, and fighting until they end, along...
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Nerds of a Feather at Worldcon!
It's the week of the 78th World Science Fiction Convention, aka Worldcon, aka CoNZealand, and while we may not be travelling Aotearoa/New Zealand to enjoy the convention in person, many of us are...
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Microreview [Book]: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Can Tamsyn Muir's queer gothic necromancy series get any better? Yes it can.Cover Art: Tommy ArnoldAll right, limber up folks, because today we're diving into one of 2020's most anticipated sequels:...
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Reading the Hugos: Lodestar
Welcome to what is likely the final entry in Reading the Hugos this year. As I noted last year, from the perspective of a reader who is not plugged in the YA scene and isn't a YA reader, the Hugo...
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Microreview: Lisbeth Campbell’s The Vanished Queen
Lisbeth Campbell’s The Vanished Queen presents us a low-magic fantasy world where collective action and the power of revolution are set in a matrix of the story of a missing monarch, a prince opposing...
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Microreview [Book]: The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
After a grim start, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant finally restores some confidence to its troubled hero and her Empire-destroying schemesContent Note: This review contains major spoilers for the end of The...
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Microreview [Book]: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic asks for your patience and rewards you with gut-punches.Mexican Gothic is a serpent of a novel that slithers through its proceedings. It takes it’s time as it moves with a predatory...
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Interview: R.F. Kuang, author of The Burning God
photo credit: Kobi C. FeltonCongratulations to R.F. Kuang, for her Astounding Award win, at the Hugo Awards last weekend. I highly recommend watching her powerful acceptance speech, in which she talks...
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Six books with (Half of) Kit Rocha
Today on Nerds of a Feather, we ask Kit Rocha about their Six BooksKit Rocha is the pseudonym for co-writing team Donna Herren and Bree Bridges. After penning dozens of paranormal novels, novellas and...
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Thursday Morning Superhero: Comic Con at Home
Comic Con at home has come and gone and from my perspective it was quite successful at capturing the appeal of Comic Con and delivering it to my home. While social media impressions were down over...
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Microreview: In Evil Times by Melinda Snodgrass
Melinda Snodgrass’ In Evil Times, second in her Imperials series, puts both of the protagonists, the Heir to the Empire Mercedes, and lowborn would be officer Tracy through changes as they explore...
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Interview: H.G. Parry author of A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians
In Western Europe, it is the Age of Enlightenment. In the Caribbean, a slave rebellion is brewing. Now, add magic! Enter H.G. Parry's newest novel, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians,...
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Microreview [Book]: The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky's weird alternate biospheres are the highlight of this first contact thriller-esque sci fiThe Doors of Eden is a novel about alien worlds, as you've never seen them before - because every...
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Adri and Joe Talk About the 2020 Hugo Awards
Joe: Where do we even begin after this year’s Hugo Awards? The winners were across the board wonderful, the finalists were one of the best ballots we’ve had, and the ceremony...well, the ceremony sure...
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6 Books with Writer and Editor Michael J. DeLuca
Michael J. DeLuca’s short fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Apex, Mythic Delirium, and lots of other places. He is the publisher of Reckoning, a journal of creative writing on...
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Microreview [Book]: Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings
Flyaway is a rare confection with an acquired taste.Flyaway is masterfully written but will be a tough sell to some readers. Reading it is like walking through a foggy road, disoriented, eventually...
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Microreview [book]: Ashes of the Sun by Django Wexler
The beginning of a stunning secondary world fantasy universe, in a decaying empire set in a post apocalypse world.In a world built on the ruins of an apocalypse, a Republic tries to protect its...
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