Below are the Hugo Novelette finalists! There wasn't as much overlap with the Nebulas as there was in the short fiction category before, but be sure to check out the new stories by Zen Cho, Daryl Gregory, Naomi Kritzer, and Simone Heller. You really don't want to miss these! “If at First You Don’t Succeed, … Continue reading Hugo Finalists 2019: Novellette
Science Fiction
SYNTH #1: An Anthology of Dark SF
The blurb compares this to Blackmirror but I'll be honest, I think anthology wins at being more bleak, more strange, and more relevant. Edited by C. M. Muller, SYNTH: An Anthology of Dark Science Fiction is exactly that and does it ever deliver on that promise. All of these stories circle existential issues, while also … Continue reading SYNTH #1: An Anthology of Dark SF
Review: NEON&CONCRETE Stories – Part 2
And as promised here is Part 2 to this series with my reviews of the CONCRETE stories by Richard Galbraith. The theme that is centered around these narratives is brutalist architecture but with the aid of the artist, Jon Ojibway aka Ozhichige, the stories embody some of the conceptual existentialism that Galbraith works into his … Continue reading Review: NEON&CONCRETE Stories – Part 2
Review: How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?
If you couldn't tell already, but I've been on a bit of an anthology kick this year and there was no way I was going to miss out on N.K. Jemisin's new collection of short fiction. There are some stories I have read or heard of before and there are even some stories in here … Continue reading Review: How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?
Nebula Finalists 2018: Novellette
And here below I have included most of the Novellette finalists. I could not get my hands on one of the stories, since it is out of a collection by the author, but oh well. I did link the ones that are found for free online! Enjoy! "The Only Harmless Great Thing" by Brooke Bolander … Continue reading Nebula Finalists 2018: Novellette
Review: Children of Time
What if the planet you are attempting to colonize is already occupied? This is the question that Adrian Tchaikovsky’s CHILDREN OF TIME attempts to answer, but while doing so, asks so many more questions along the way. When an ark ship, holding what remains of humanity, comes upon a long-forgotten project of Old Earth, a … Continue reading Review: Children of Time
Review: The Freeze-Frame Revolution
It's been awhile since I couldn't put a sci-fi novella down and when I had to with this one, I did begrudgingly(darn kids!). I really could have read this in one sitting, because Watts just makes everything so tense and so utterly readable. We have our protagonist Sunday on a one way trip across the … Continue reading Review: The Freeze-Frame Revolution
Review: Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
This was a very different anthology, but a good one. Edited by by Phoebe Wagner & Brontë Christopher Wieland, we have a collection of upcoming writers who were asked to write science fiction in a new way, that imagines humanities' future in a context of climate change, far future realities, and new understandings of culture … Continue reading Review: Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
Review: The Wanderers
I really wanted to like The Wanderers by Meg Howrey, especially with how it was initially sold to me via the blurb: "Howery's exquisite novel demonstrates that the final frontier may not be space after all."(J. Ryan Stradal). At the end of the day I could only really give it two stars and wondered why … Continue reading Review: The Wanderers
Review: The Collapsing Empire
I might have had my expectations too high for the writer of Old Man's War, but John Scalzi did not exactly dazzle me with this first installment of his Interdependency Series. This was also a Hugo nomination from last year that I'm still wrapping up(got caught up on my own TBR list). The Collapsing Empire is really … Continue reading Review: The Collapsing Empire
