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Thursday Morning Superhero - SDCC Offsite Edition
If you ever find yourself in San Diego during SDCC and are not fortunate enough to have a badge to the convention center, there is plenty to do without a badge as the Gaslamp is transformed during...
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Microreview [book]: Brightfall, by Jaime Lee Moyer
Jaime Lee Moyer’s Brightfall provides a new and magical spin on the post-Merry Men life of Marian, Robin and his companions in Sherwood ForestThe rebellion led by Robin, Earl of Loxley, and his...
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Joe's Books of 2019: Part One (January - June)
Good morning and welcome to my cataloging of all of the books I read in the first six months of 2019. I started this feature several years ago and it's something I really enjoy doing. I love making...
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Microreview [Book]: The Weight of our Sky by Hanna Alkaf
A well-crafted delight for YA fans seeking horizon-broadening historical fareCover Art by Guy ShieldsAs a historical YA set in Malaysia with only the lightest of speculative elements, The Weight of our...
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Watching the Hugos: Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Watching the Hugos continues with a look at the six finalists up for Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. Long Form generally means feature length movies but by definition is any eligible work 90 minutes...
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Thursday Morning Superhero: My SDCC Schedule
If attending San Diego Comic Con for the past 10 or so years is that you never get to do everything you plan for. There are some obvious scheduling conflicts below and the panels I attend are now...
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Microreview [book]: The Outside by Ada Hoffmann
Ada Hoffmann’s The Outside is an extremely successful fusion of Space Opera and Lovecraftian motifs to tell the story of AI Gods, Angels, and an autistic engineer co-opted into an interdimensional...
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Microreview [Book]: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Excellent characters and well-crafted adventure make this historical fantasy take on Mayan mythology a highlight of the year so far.Cover illustration by Daniel PelavinSilvia Moreno-Garcia is an author...
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Microreview [video game]: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night by 505 Games...
Shattered Glass Koji Igarashi was responsible for a handful of my favorite games, namely Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. When he left Konami and landed on Kickstarter with Bloodstained: Ritual of...
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Reading the Hugos: Lodestar
This is the second year of the Lodestar Award for Best YA Novel and, from the perspective of a reader who isn't much of a YA reader, the Hugo nominators have done a solid job each year in finding a...
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Thursday Morning Superhero: SDCC 2019 Recap
What may have been my final San Diego Comic Con wrapped up on Sunday and I was fortunate enough to share it with my kids (my daughter joined me on Sunday). SDCC celebrated its 50th birthday with some...
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Microreview [book]: There Before the Chaos, by K.B. Wagers
K.B Wagers’ There Before the Chaos returns to her Indranan War space opera universe with the start of a brand new series where she is not afraid to “Blow up Vulcan”The Indranan War series[Behind the...
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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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Questing in Shorts: July 2019
This edition of Questing in Shorts is brought to you by "Adri is tired and overestimated how much review writing she could get done during a weekend where she was also attending YALC." YALC - the UK...
View ArticleReading the Hugos: John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Welcome back to Reading the Hugos: 2019 Edition! Today we're going to look at the writers up for the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer.I know. I know. The Campbell is "Not a Hugo". It is only...
View ArticleHugo Award 2019: My Final Ballot
Now that the deadline has passed and I have done all the Hugo reading and consuming that I am going to do this year, the final ballot I submitted is below. The full list of nominees can be found here....
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Thursday Morning Superhero
It feels good to slide back into a regularly scheduled Thursday Morning Superhero now that San Diego Comic Con is behind us. SDCC motivated me to return to Joe Hill's books and I have recently been...
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6 Books with Julie Czerneda
What is magic? As imagined by Julie E. Czerneda, it’s wild and free, a force of nature and source of wonder. She first explored this theme in her Night’s Edge series, starting with the award-winning...
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Microreview [book]: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Science, aliens, and optimism in the face of an overwhelming universe.It's hard to know when to pick up a high-concept Becky Chambers book, even one as short as this. On the one hand, To Be Taught, If...
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Pop Up Gen Con!
Last weekend was Gen Con, which is “The Best Four Days in Gaming”, except there’s only one problem. It’s in Indianapolis. But if you couldn’t make it to Indianapolis this year, your FLGS might have...
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