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The Hugo Award for Best Novel short-list: SHROUD
Here’s my last post reviewing the finalists for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The award will be presented on Aug. 30 2026 at LaCon, Anaheim, California. The list of finalists: Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US) This novel of… Continue reading
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The Hugo Award for Best Novel short-list: THE RAVEN SCHOLAR
Here’s my fourth post documenting my quest to read and review all six finalists for the 2026 Hugo Award for Best Novel, to be announced on August 30, 2026, in Anaheim, California, at LAcon: The finalists: The Raven Scholar, Antonia… Continue reading
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The Hugo Awards for Best Novel short-list: THE EVERLASTING
Here’s my third post reviewing the finalists for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The award will be presented on Aug. 30 2026 at LaCon, Anaheim, California. The list of finalists: The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow (Tor US; Tor UK) In… Continue reading
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The Hugo Awards for Best Novel short-list: A DROP OF CORRUPTION
Here’s my next post in my quest to read and review all six finalists for the 2026 Hugo Award for Best Novel, to be announced on August 30, 2026, in Anaheim, California, at LAcon: Again, the list of the finalists:… Continue reading
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The 2026 Hugo Awards finalists for Best Novel: Two nominees
The longest-running major awards in speculative fiction are the Hugos. The World Science Fiction Society presents awards for Best Novel and many other works in other categories at the World Science Fiction Convention (“Worldcon”), and has done so since 1953.… Continue reading
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The Nebula Awards Announced!
Great choice for the Best Novel award, Nebula voters! See my review HERE. (I keep calling these awards the 2026 Nebula Awards, when they’re actually the 2025 awards, because they are given to works published or produced in 2025.) The… Continue reading
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Another Nebula Finalist
I was not planning to add anything more to my posts about Nebula Awards finalists, but I just realized something important about this book, nominated for Best Novella, and I had to post about it. How did I miss this,… Continue reading
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Speculative Animated Movie Fiction. . .and the Animal Bond, part 3: FLOW
My grandson and I agree on this–oh, and so does Jubjub, our cat, who finds it fascinating. Flow is the best animated movie ever. Maybe the best movie ever, period. Am I exaggerating? Maybe. . .but only a little. This… Continue reading
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Speculative Animated Movie Fiction. . .and the Animal Bond, part 2
The whole reason for these movie posts? After I read The Last Unicorn, I became intrigued by the animated film. That’s when I realized that of course there are other interesting films exploring the animal-human bond. Beyond the three I’m… Continue reading
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Speculative Animated Movie Fiction. . .and the Animal Bond, part 1
In this part of the series on the human-animal bond in speculative fiction, I’ll review three animated films, one from the ’40s, one from the ’80s, one recently released. Notice I didn’t label this post “the human-animal bond.” In one… Continue reading
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