Hugo Nominees 2019
Hugo nominations close this week, so I thought I’d share what I nominated this year. This is absolutely not a slate; nominate what you like. This is a list of things I liked from 2018, and I think...
View ArticleTuesday Reads – 2019-04-23
I finally started Tiamat’s Wrath by James S.A. Corey – A’s been after me to read it for a couple weeks so that we can yell about it together. This series has been a trip, and the escalation as it nears...
View ArticleTuesday Reads for 2019-08-07 (which is a Wednesday)
Gonna try to restart these, now that I’ve made it through summer travel season. After finishing my reading from the Hugos voters packet, I finally started Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey after...
View ArticleTuesday Reads for 2019-08-13
I finished Magic for Liars (by Sarah Gailey) Saturday night. Very good mystery story; I didn’t always follow the narrator’s emotional shifts but I that’s just my neurology. Recommended. Then last...
View Article“Lesbian necromancers… in space” -Charles Stross
[I received an advance reader copy of Gideon the Ninth from the publisher at ALA Annual 2019] I’d been hearing great things about Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir from most of the authors I follow for...
View ArticleAliens: Phalanx by Scott Sigler
If you like the Alien franchise, or sci-fi horror, this is a great read. Great protagonist & pacing, and information comes at just the right pace (without bogging down in exposition to answer...
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Status 2020-07-16: Reading Come Tumbling Down over lunch
Screengrab from Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire – I’m rather late to this one, but it is very good.
View ArticleRhythm of War & The Expanse s05e1-3
This past week I made a big push to finish Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson, partly because I’m behind on reading fall releases (and my tbr pile generally) and partly because it’s my favorite of The...
View ArticleThe Watch, WandaVision, and unhelpful marketing
This month, two new shows started up – The Watch & WandaVision. Probably other shows, too, but these are standing out to me at the moment as failures in marketing. Both were shows I was initially...
View ArticleRecommended Reading: A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
Loved this mystery/thriller from P. Djèlí Clark – much like Martha Wells’ Murderbot, novellas in this series have been moving through the Tor.com ecosystem over the last few years, and I was delighted...
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