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Hugo Awards 2021: Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Nominees

Hello, everyone, it’s Hugo season once more! Doug and I are both voting members, and I’m waffling on whether or not to go in person to this year’s awards, seeing as how they’re basically in my city this time and who knows when that will happen again! Decisions, decisions. Speaking of decisions, we’ll be talking …

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Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente

What if all of those 19th-century notions about the nature of the solar system were true? Venus is swampy and rainy, Mars is mostly dry but turns out to be good country for kangaroos, Neptune is covered by an immense and stormy ocean, the moon really does have seas. And more: the moons discovered by …

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What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg

I skipped a good sixty or seventy pages of this book in the hope that jumping ahead would prevent me from pronouncing the Eight Deadly Words, but in the end it didn’t. As the copyright page tells any reader, “The novel What Makes Sammy Run? was originally published by Random House, Inc., in 1941. Copyright …

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How to Train Your Dragon by DreamWorks Animation

Actors: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler Directors: Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: DreamWorks DVD Release Date: October 15, 2010 Run Time: 98 minutes Special Features: Animated short film, interviews and behind-the scenes footage, deleted scenes, games This week’s review is How To …

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