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Review: The Apothecary Diaries
An appealing fantasy mystery dealing with difficult issues of gender and class through the eyes of a young apothecary There’s no such thing as a perfect anime, but The Apothecary Diaries comes close....
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Video Game Review: Mass Effect Legendary Edition
Sometimes you can go back homeIn 2003, Canadian developer BioWare released Knights of the Old Republic—a real-time RPG based in the Star Wars universe. BioWare was a relatively young studio at the...
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Review: Boy Kills World
Schadenfreude: the Film There’s something gleefully demented about a certain sort of action movie that turns what would be horrific in any other context into something funny. Mel Brooks once said,...
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Roundtable Interview: Broken Olive Branches
Broken Olive Branches is a charity anthology; over 30 authors in the horror community donated stories to help the civilians of PalestineAmong the stories are: codependent necromancersa spy discovers a...
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Book Review: The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
Another beautifully written entry into the Singing Hills cycle, but departing from the previous books' structural devices... or does it?The Brides of High Hill is the fifth installment in Nghi Vo's...
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Book Review: Inverted Frontier by Linda Nagata
The latest (and possibly penultimate) volume in the Inverted Frontier series has the explorers on Dragon and Griffin have a true first contact, and possibly an enemy within.The Inverted Frontier series...
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Review: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Does civilization have to mean subjugation?In the long chain of ancestors that span the millennia before the rise of humans, the earliest apes we count as members of the genus Homo are those belonging...
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Adri and Joe Talk About Books: 2024 Hugo Award Finalists (finally!)
Joe: We’ve had a few weeks to sit on the announcement and start the always exciting process of trying to read and watch all the things and fully engage with the Hugo Awards. The finalists were...
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Book Review: So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole
A YA, Jamaican-inspired, dragon-filled fantasy dealing with friendship, family, and cultural clashes. The premise of Kamilah Cole’s YA fantasy So Let Them Burn had my attention as soon as I read the...
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Introducing the First Contact Project
What's it like to experience a classic for the first time?As a very wise person once said, there's no science fiction canon. There's no mandatory reading list, no admission test to join the community...
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Book Review: Warped State by Jo Miles
A space opera that puts a burgeoning queer interspecies relationship front and center.Jasper Wilder has a number of problems, but he has an interesting job as a result of them. He suffers from the...
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First Contact: Porco Rosso
It turns out, Alex would watch anime when pigs flyI feel, at odd moments, that the fact that I haven’t watched all that much anime should get me my nerd card revoked, doubly so for only having watched...
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First Contact: The Terminator
A machine monster chase film with a romantic, time loop twistThe Terminator debuted in theaters in 1984. I’m embarrassed to admit that forty years later, I’m seeing this blockbuster for the first time....
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Book Review: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
A step somewhat outside of the author's usual métier... but plus ça change for Leigh Bardugo, it seemsLuzia is a maid in 15th-century Madrid, a poor girl with Jewish heritage trying to hide from the...
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Double Feature: What's with all the imaginary friends?
There's a menacing whiff of unprocessed nostalgia in the ZeitgeistLet's see: during a period of heavy stress and existential uncertainty, a girl who is still not done grieving her late mother meets a...
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Review: The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan
A beautifully structured story of duality and Jewish-flavoured mythologyJews in Inquisition-era Spain are having a bit of a moment this week. Roseanna's review of Leigh Bardugo's The Familiargave a...
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First Contact: Metropolis
A dazzling window through which a century of science fiction can be glimpsedEconomic inequality is bad. It's unfair, cruel, bad, unfair, cruel, bad, unfair, cruel—there aren't many ways to say this...
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Book Review: The Dragonfly Gambit by A. D. Sui
Political plotting and elaborate shenanigans done rightTo quote a certain famous someone: I love mess. I love emotional tangles, and characters who do things that ultimately hurt themselves because...
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Film Review: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
When Germans delve and Britons span, who was then the gentleman? There is undoubtedly a certain romance to commandos. The very term originally meant not a single individual, but rather a small group of...
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Book Review: Freeset by Sarina Dahlan
The sequel to Reset continues the story of the post-apocalyptic world of the Four CitiesSarina Dahlan’s Resetand its prequel Preset depict the post-apocalyptic world of the Four Cities, seemingly the...
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