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Microreview: City of Dusk by Tara Sim
Tara Sim’s City of Dusk starts a series where four young heirs to power both temporal and magical find themselves thrust into opposition with each other as a magical conjunction threatens to upset an...
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6 Books with Naseem Jamnia
Photo credit: Jeramie Lu.Naseem Jamnia (they/them) is a Persian-Chicagoan, former scientist, and fiction MFA graduate from the University of Nevada, Reno. Their work has appeared in The Washington...
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Brewing Community with Rem Wigmore
Brewing Community is a series of guest posts in which readers, writers, artists and fans are invited to share their experiences of community. Whether online or in person, these groups bring a great...
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Nanoreviews: Moon Witch, Spider King; The Grief of Stones
Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon JamesThis is not a book that lends itself well to a quick review: it's got too much going on, and is too accomplished, to really be encapsulated in a few hundred...
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Microreview: This All Come Back Now edited by Mykaela Saunders
Mykaela Saunders lovingly curates a mixtape of Australian First Nations speculative fiction in this ground-breaking anthology.Australia's speculative fiction scene has long been very white. Indigenous...
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Review: The Last Human by P. S. Hoffman
A far-future adventure where the legacy of humankind falls into the unlikeliest handsUntold millennia after human extinction, new intelligent species populate the universe. Civilizations have risen and...
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Microreview: The Killing Machine by Jack Vance
Jack Vance’s The Killing Machine is the second in his (audio reissue) of the Demon Princes series.In The Star King we were introduced to interstellar hero Kirth Gersen. Kirth’s path, his mission in...
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Adri and Joe Read the Hugos: Novel
Joe: Next up for our Hugo Award coverage is a chat about the six finalists for Best Novel and, in my opinion, it’s another strong ballot. Arkady Martine is a former winner in this category for A Memory...
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Nanoreview [film]: DC League of Super-Pets
Finally, someone at Warner Bros. Pictures remembered that Superman stories can have funAmid all the difficulties that have beset the increasingly fragmented and directionless DCEU, it's a relief to...
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Microreview [Video Game]: Slay the Spire by Mega Crit
Do you like card games? Do you like to die while playing card games? Try this.Slay the Spire leaves behind most of the extraneous video game disciplines to focus on what matters most for the genre:...
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Thursday Morning Superhero: SDCC Edition
After a multiple year hiatus, San Diego Comic Con welcomed hundreds of thousands of fans the opportunity to return to its annual four days of nerd-fueled paradise. I took things a bit easy this year...
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'Paper Girls' is a more honest look at the 80s generation
If 80s kids must write stories that look back at their young selves, why not make it literal?Yes, I know, it's yet another show about the 80s, but this one doesn't pretend it was a glorious time to...
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Microreview: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
Ruthanna Emrys’ A Half-Built Garden vividly imagines a late 21st century first contact scenario on an Earth trying to recover from the climate and social ills of our present era.Judy Wallach-Stevens...
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Microreview [book]: Be the Serpent, by Seanan McGuire
When Sorrows Come, despite having that particular title, was ultimately a novel of uplifting joy. It was the story of October and Tybalt’s wedding and even though there may have been gallons of blood...
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Review: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A monumental classic of science fiction gets renewed for 21st-century readersIs this novel a retelling, a remake, a reimagining, a reboot, a requel? I'd call it a reclaiming.The original book that...
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On the Proposed Changes to the Best Series Hugo Award
I think about the Hugo Awards far more than is probably healthy. Typically, what I’m considering are the finalists for the current year’s awards or reading through all of the previous winners in a...
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6 Books with R.B. Lemberg
R. B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe to the U.S. R. B.'s Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves (Tachyon, 2020) was a finalist for the Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, and World...
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Microreview [Novel] - Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
A take on the idea of magic users in a secret bureaucracy, but with an extra tasty layer of interrogation of power structures.“What if there are magical people, and they’re also in power in some way?”...
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Microreview: Uncanny Times by Laura Anne Gilman
Laura Anne Gilman’s Uncanny Times leverages her skills at Urban Fantasy to tell a Historical fantasy tale of a supernaturally oriented pair of siblings who bump back the things that bump in the...
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6 Books with Jane Yolen
The prolific Jane Yolen is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. She is the author or editor of more than 400 booksToday she lists her Six Books. 1. What book are you...
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