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Adri and Joe Talk About Books: The 2021 Hugo Awards
Adri: Hello and welcome to this totally-not-late-at-all chat about what happened in the Hugo awards! One side effect of Hugos in December was that most of the post-Hugo excitement got overtaken by...
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2022 Nerds of a Feather Hugo Awards Recommended Reading, Part 2: Visual Work...
Welcome to our continuing presentation of the Nerds of a Feather 2022 Hugo Award Recommendation List. Today will look at Graphic Story, the two Dramatic Presentation categories, and the new one time...
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2022 Nerds of a Feather Hugo Awards Recommended Reading, Part 3: Individual...
Welcome to the third part of the Nerds of a Feather 2022 Hugo Award Longlist. Today we take a look at the categories recognizing individuals for their body of work during 2021: Editor (Short and Long...
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Welcome to the fourth and final instalment of the Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together 2022 Hugo Awards Longlist!This time we are looking at what are, for lack of a better term, the "nonfiction and...
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Thursday Morning Superhero: Banned Books Edition
One of my favorite graphic novels made headlines in recent weeks, when a Tennessee School Board voted to remove Maus from its shelves. Not too long ago My Friend Dahmer was banned by a school...
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Microreview [book]: The Green Man's Foe by Juliet McKenna
The second book in the Green Man series deepens and broadens the otherworldly adventures of a Dryad’s son.Being mortal, but also the son of an otherworldly being isn’t all that it is cracked up to be....
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The October Daye Reread: An Artificial Night
Welcome back, dear readers. Today we’re going to revisit the third novel in Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series: An Artificial Night. We assume you’ve been reading along with us because this will be...
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Microreview [Graphic Novel]: Lore Olympus Volume One by Rachel Smythe
Lore Olympus is a retelling of the Hades/Persephone myth from Greek mythology, originally published as an Eisner-nominated webcomic on webtoon starting in 2018, with the first physical volume released...
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'Moonfall' puts the disaster in disaster movie
That's no moon, and that's barely a movie, eitherFirst, let's get the boring physics out of the way: although it's not technically impossible that the Moon could be an artificial structure, the notion...
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Microreview [book]: Spelunking Through Hell, by Seanan McGuire
The culmination of a long and satisfying journey.Friends. Spelunking Through Hell is a JOURNEY. A literal one for the plotline of the novel as Alice does, in fact, go on a journey to find / recover her...
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Microreview: Scholars of Night
The reissue of the late John M Ford’s work continues with Scholars of Night, a novel very much of its 1980’s time, and one on the evaporating edges of genre.Nicholas Hansard is a professor of history...
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Microreview: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
Three looks at the nightmarish side of the American DreamThe multi-timeline epic saga is in vogue these days. However, even if this is still a somewhat nascent tradition, what Hanya Yanagihara has done...
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Questing in Shorts, January 2022: Saturation Part 2
I said I'd be back for a second part of my short-fiction-of-2021-marathon wrap-up, and I'm here to make good on that promise! Let's talk about some more of my favourite short stories read in January,...
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Microreview [Video Game]: Returnal by Housemarque
Can you break the cycle?Hurtling through the atmosphere of a foreign planet, Helios crash lands onto the surface of Atropos. From it’s ruins steps our protagonist. You are Selene, tasked with finding...
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Microreview [Book]: Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
Inspired by the legend of Chang’e, a story of a girl’s quest to free her mother from prison on the moon, despite the opposition of the imperium of heaven.Illustrator: Jason ChuangDesigner: Ellie...
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Microreview: The Green Man's Silence by Juliet McKenna
The Green Man's Silence continues the story of Daniel Mackmain, changing up him, and the entire series.When last we left Daniel Mackmain, things had been looking up for him. After his adventures in...
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Microreview [game]: Halo Infinite by 343 Industries
Sometimes you just don't want to go homeAfter a year of failure, this December I finally managed to procure an Xbox Series X. As a longtime user of the platform, going all the way back to the original...
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Microreview: Battle of the Linguist Mages by Scotto Moore
This is the most fascinating concept I've seen in years, but its style is not for everyoneSome titles are an insta-buy. One cannot see a novel called Battle of the Linguist Mages and not buy it. So it...
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The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan is fine, if you can tolerate the utter...
Mistakes were made A lot of people are going to really dig this book. A lot of people are going to find in this the exact sort of thing they read fantasy for, with all the character archetypes and plot...
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Microreview: The Art of Broken Things by Joanne Anderton
A new collection of short stories from one of Australia's hidden treasures will break your heart and mend it back together with gold.Australia has a wealth of horror writers, authors of dark fantasy...
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