Recent Reads: Summer Magazines and Short Fiction
One of the few New Year’s resolutions I’ve kept this year was to read more short fiction, and I’ve been doing that largely through magazines. It’s a great way of discovering new-to-me authors and...
View ArticleBook Review: INFOMOCRACY and NULL STATES by Malka Older
It took me a long time to read Malka Older’s Infomocracy. I couldn’t get into it right away when it came out last summer, and then the 2016 election happened and it was, perhaps understandably, just...
View ArticleRecent Reads: The Book Smugglers Novella Initiative
With just eleven days left on the Kickstarter for the Book Smugglers’ Level Up, it feels like a good time to talk about the Book Smugglers’ newest publishing project, The Novella Initiative. Over the...
View ArticleBook Review: An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard
I liked Kat Howard’s debut novel, Roses and Rot, quite a bit and even more in hindsight, and I’ve enjoyed the several pieces of short fiction I’ve read from her since, but An Unkindness of Magicians is...
View ArticleBook Review – Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction & Fantasy
Where the Stars Rise is a wonderfully diverse collection of Asian science fiction and fantasy that deserves to be on the shelves of anyone serious about being well-read in the genre. Like all good...
View ArticleRecent Reads: Space Opera, Cosmic Horror, Hippo Mayhem and More from Tor.com
Starfire: A Red Peace by Spencer Ellsworth Pub Date: 8/22/17 The first in a trilogy of short novels, A Red Peace begins with the ending of and intergalactic war fought between natural humans and the...
View ArticleRecent Reads: Tor.com’s October 2017 Novellas
The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson Pub Date: 10/3 I don’t usually care for horror, and Tade Thompson’s The Murders of Molly Southbourne seemed like a fairly straightforward horror...
View ArticleBook Review: Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
So, I’ve finally figured out what it is about Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children that prevents me from really loving these books the way so many other people do. I just, on a fundamental level, don’t...
View ArticleBook Review: Robots vs. Fairies edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe
Robots vs. Fairies is my first reading disappointment of 2018. I loved Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe’s first anthology, 2016’s The Starlit Wood, so I was very hyped for this one when it was...
View ArticleBook Review: Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames
Nicholas Eames’ freshman novel, Kings of the Wyld, was one of my favorite reads of 2017, a well-written, cleverly observed and often hilariously funny adventure fantasy pastiche that adhered to genre...
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