Alix E Harrow can definitely be hit or miss for me. This, fortunately, was such a hit that I actually exclaimed “yes!” when I realized it was the first of a series. Zinnia Gray is no traditional princess. But she has been cursed, more or less, with a genetic disease known as Generalized Roseville Malady, …
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Jun 09 2022
Hugo Awards 2022: Best Novelette
Myth, starfaring bots, near-future Nigeria, fell fae, artistic immortals and the magic of the mind all feature in the 2022 Hugo finalists in the category of Best Novelette. “Bots of the Lost Ark” by Suzanne Palmer sets its story on a large interstellar ship that just barely survived an encounter with hostile aliens and is …
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Apr 17 2022
Hugo Finalists 2022
What an exciting bunch of finalists! I’ve read precisely none of the finalists in the first four fiction categories (I had put The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison on my nominating ballot and am sorry to see it was not among the top six), also none of the finalists for Best Related Work, …
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Mar 03 2022
Stars And Bones by Gareth L Powell
Take a bit of The Expanse, add a dash of Battlestar Galactica and a soupcon of Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series, and you have the latest thrilling space opera from multi-British Science Fiction Association Award-winning author Gareth L Powell! Eryn is a Navigator, one of the few people who are capable of linking with the shipminds …
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Jun 18 2020
Anxiety Is The Dizziness Of Freedom by Ted Chiang
Gosh, it feels kinda weird reviewing this as its own entity, but I’m still only partway through reading Exhalation, the collection it comes from, and won’t be able to finish the whole book for a while. Anxiety Is The Dizziness Of Freedom is the last story in the volume, after the also-Hugo-nominated Omphalos, with both …
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Feb 21 2019
An Interview with Gareth L Powell, author of Fleet Of Knives
Q. Every series has its own story about how it came to be conceived and written as it did. How did the Embers Of War series evolve? A. The initial idea came when I was reading an article about the Titanic disaster, and idly started wondering what would happen if a star liner crashed in a …
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Mar 19 2023
Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee
In Phoenix Extravagant, Yoon Ha Lee transposes the colonial history of Japanese rule in Korea to the Empire of Razan’s conquest of Hwaguk six years before the book’s beginning. Lee uses the framework to tell a story of an artist getting caught up in politics and history, only to discover they had been in it …
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