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Microreview[Comic]: Wonder Woman Historia Book 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and...
A retelling of the birth of DC's Amazons, centring their perspective, and giving a view into the world of the gods.I am not up to date on Wonder Woman in the DC comics universe more broadly. This is a...
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Six Books with Dan Koboldt
Dan Koboldt is the author of the Gateways to Alissia trilogy (Harper Voyager) and the Build-A-Dragon Sequence (Baen), the editor of Putting the Science in Fiction and Putting the Fact in Fantasy...
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Microreview [Video Game]: Scarlet Nexus by Bandai Namco and Tose
Not a great follower, but still a good time. Odd beings called Others have been tormenting humanity for centuries, and it's up to members of the OSF to stop them. But even with their superpowers, two...
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Zootopia+ expands on the secondary characters from the movie
A series of vignettes on how these talking animals of different sizes and habits make coexistence workSince 2016, we've been wishing for a sequel to Zootopia. The concept of a prosperous city where all...
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6 Books with Victor Manibo
By Sean Collishaw Victor Manibo is a Filipino speculative fiction writer living in New York. As a queer immigrant and a person of color, he writes about people who live these identities and how they...
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Microreview [book]: The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri
Yearning and suspense by the bucketload in the Burning Kingdoms' second instalmentLast year, I said that The Jasmine Throne was one of the strongest in an impressive year of diverse fantasy,...
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Microreview [book]: Scorpica by G.R. McAllister
A story of the women in a set of connected queendoms, and the looming threat that will upend their status quo Posterity.From the Middle English posterite, from Anglo-French pusterité, from Latin...
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'Slumberland' won't spark your dreams, but it will put you to sleep
It's a pity that a film based on Winsor McCay's daring visual innovations ends up looking so conventional and undreamlikeA girl loses her father and processes her grief by oversleeping. An emotionally...
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Microreview [book]: Ghost Bird by Lisa Fuller
Ghost Bird is a uniquely Australian young adult novel that examines the intersection between Indigenous and Western perspectives.Ghost Bird belongs most comfortably in the genre of the YA thriller. A...
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6 Books with Keith Ammann
Keith Ammann has been a Dungeons & Dragons player and DM for more than thirty years. He has been writing his fifth edition D&D–focused blog The Monsters Know What They’re Doing since 2016. He...
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On the fuzzy ecologist parable that is 'Strange World'
This translation of energy policy questions into children's fantasy leaves key details out of the pictureIn the Fishlake National Forest in Utah lives a massive, ancient creature estimated to have...
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Nerds of a Feather Stands with the HarperCollins Union
Today's scheduled post was an Old Kingdom/Abhorsen reread. However, as the Old Kingdom series is published by HarperCollins, and the HarperCollins Union has been on strike since 10 November, we will...
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It was the wrong call to age up Wednesday Addams
The success of a character like Wednesday Addams depends on a very precise comedic style that does not pair well with contemporary young adult tropesTim Burton has only ever told one story: the...
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Thursday Morning Superhero: Holiday Gift Guide
We are approaching the end of 2022 and it is time for my annual holiday gift recommendations. Per usual there will be gaming, collectible, and comic book related gifts that will hopefully put a smile...
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Questing in Shorts, December 2022
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 22There's nothing that stands out particularly strongly in this issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction, but its an intriguingly wide ranging read...
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'Doctor Who Origins' expands the Fugitive Doctor's backstory
The Chibnall era is over, but the Fugitive Doctor still has plenty of story to tellLove it or hate it, the Timeless Child is official. It's settled. It happened. So what now?What comes now is a...
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Microreview [TV series]: Andor
Andor reaches beyond the Star Wars franchise to become a truly amazing feat of television and anti-fascist storytelling. I like to start fights by saying Rogue One (2016) is the best Star Wars film...
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Microreview[Novel]: City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky
A web of interlinked stories and moments that's brave enough to try to encompass the totality of a city under occupation... with an accompaniment of interesting magics to back it up.Cover art by Joe...
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Microreview [book]: The Keeper's Six by Kate Elliott
A Mother trying to find her kidnapped son...but she is an interdimensional traveler, and her son’s kidnapper is a Dragon.Esther is awoken in the middle of the night by a cryptic call for help from her...
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'Dragon Age: Absolution' packs dragon-sized themes in an elf-sized package
Against the common cliché that expects very little quality from videogame adaptations, this miniseries explores the danger of hunger for power with the depth of prestige TVAcross the iterations of the...
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