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Interview with the Editors of Sunvault: Phoebe Wagner and Bronte Wieland
Writing the future, imagining something brighter... What is solarpunk? If you—like I had no idea, even just six months...
View ArticleThe Hugo Awards Happened: Some Thoughts
Do you remember when I wrote about how my favorite stories don't get nominated, but that I still love the Hugo Awards?That's still true. Getting to trade recs and be excited about media is my primary...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Today marked the end of a truly epic era. Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo finished their epic run with Batman and will go down as one of the best duos to ever pen and draw the caped crusader. Snyder...
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New Books Spotlight
Welcome to another edition of the New Books Spotlight, where each month or so we curate a selection of 6 forthcoming books we find notable, interesting, and intriguing. It gives us the opportunity to...
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Microreview [book]: Knight's Shadow, by Sebastien de Castell
De Castell levels up with a ‘laughdark’ surpassquel!De Castell, Sebastien. Knight's Shadow. Jo Fletcher Books, 2015.Buy it here.Who’d have believed it—that’s two surpassquels in a row for this humble...
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International TableTop Day
This Saturday is the 4th Annual International TableTop Day. A day of celebrating all things tabletop, including board games, card games, miniatures games, RPGs, and more! If you want to try to score...
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Nanoreviews [TV]: 2015-2016 Speculative TV Shows
I have been busy fulfilling my 2016 resolution to watch more TV. This task has been made incredibly easy by the plethora of great speculative shows that have hit the airwaves, not to mention all the...
View ArticleNERD MUSIC Album Spotlight: Police Heartbreaker by Absolute Valentine
Those of you who follow my weekend playlists know that Absolute Valentine is one of my favorite new synthwave artists. And guess what--the new album on Lazerdiscs is super dope! Plus it's got a great...
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6 Books with Fantasy Author Todd Lockwood
Todd Lockwood is best known as an artist. You will likely recognize his work from the covers of Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen, Tobias Buckell's Crystal Rain, Marie Brennan's A Natural...
View ArticleOther Genre Awards: Or, So You're Tired of the Hugo Awards
So, you're tired of reading about the Hugo Awards, are you? All the fighting and arguing and gnashing of teeth got you down? Do you still like Awards and the recognition of good things?We have some...
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Nanoreviews [books]: Runtime, Forest of Memory, Central Station
Divya, S.B. Runtime [Tor.com Publishing, 2016]An adventure race featuring cybernetically enhanced competitors is probably part of our reasonably near future and it's a concept I'm happy to visit and...
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Thursday Morning Superhero: Free Comic Book Day Edition
Another year has passed and it is once again time for our special Free Comic Book Day edition of TMS. This Saturday, May 7, you can snag some free comic books at participating stores. It has become...
View ArticleNERD MUSIC Album Spotlight: Atlas by FM-84
I know it's still the first week of May, but I'm calling it: Atlas by FM-84 is the official album of summer. I mean, it's not *just* that Atlas is a pitch perfect homage to 80s romance (though it is)....
View ArticleNerd Music: Weekend Mixtape, Movie Soundtrack Edition
Summer is here, and with it, summer blockbusters. For this weeks mixtape, I went back through soundtracks to find the six* best songs from nerdy/geeky movies. I only accept songs that first appear on a...
View ArticleLady Business Gets a Hugo Nomination!
As per their announcement:We at Lady Business are excited to announce that we have accepted a place on the final ballot for Best Fanzine in the 2016 Hugo Awards.This is a strange year to be be a Hugo...
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Discussion: Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Series
Having recently read and reviewed both installments in the Mistborn series, Zhaoyun and I (Tia) decided to have a chat about the characters, themes, and our general feelings of this wonderful world....
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Review: Captain America: Civil War
Captain, my CaptainHype is a heck of a thing. And short of The Force Awakens, I don't remember a movie having more hype around it. By the time the actual movie came out, I am reasonably certain you...
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Microreview [book]: Court of Fives by Kate Elliott
A story of sisters and family and history and oppression. And death sports.It might be easy to, at first glance, compare this book with other YA franchises because of its use of death sports and young...
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Microreview [book]: Meet Me in the Middle of the Air
Weird horror... Eric Schaller’s Meet Me in the Middle of the Air proved a challenging review for me to write. I feel at odds ultimately about...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
I am still recovering from the fun I had watching Captain America: Civil War last week. While not my favorite Marvel or even Captain America flick (see Winter Soldier), the movie was just a lot of...
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