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  • Valentine Week: Fairytale Fantasy returns!

    Each year, at the start of the week including Valentine’s Day, this blog reviews books based on fairytales. Yep, it’s FAIRYTALE FANTASY WEEK once more. This year’s theme: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD If you thought there would not be very… Continue reading

  • Color My Speculative Fiction GREEN

    Now that the planet is burning up, it’s no accident that novelists are writing about it–especially as devastating fires sweep down on the LA area while I’m writing this post. Completely understandable we’re using speculative fiction to explore climate collapse… Continue reading

  • The Hugo Awards verdicts are in!

    These awards are too many for me to track easily, but I am here to tell you the winner of the 2024 Hugo Award for best novel: Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory (Tordotcom, Orbit UK). It’s a fine novel, interesting,… Continue reading

  • Two More for the Hugos

    In a previous post, I gave pocket reviews of four novels short-listed for the 2024 Hugo Award for best novel. Earlier, I had posted more extensive reviews. That’s because those four novels had already been short-listed for the 2024 Nebula,… Continue reading

  • Fraud averted at the Hugos

    A person or organization fraudulently tried to influence the voting for the 2024 Hugo Awards by apparently buying memberships for people promising to vote for their chosen candidate. The Hugo Awards establishment uncovered this scheme and disallowed the fraudulent votes.… Continue reading

  • Getting set for the 2024 Hugo Awards

    Are you ready? Award Day, Aug. 11, is coming right up. Have you read all the novels on the short list? No shame if you haven’t–it’s a big list, and those are just the novels. But here they are again:… Continue reading

  • Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner!

    The judges for the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award have made their decision: Martin MacInnes, IN ASCENSION What a great choice! One of the judges commented that this year’s choice was in the spirit of Clarke’s best fiction, and I… Continue reading

  • Soon to be announced: The Arthur C. Clarke Award for 2024

    THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR the Best SCIENCE FICTION BOOK published in the U. K. in 2024 and voted on by volunteers from the award’s sponsoring organizations: the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation and the Sci-Fi-London film festival. To recap:… Continue reading

  • A final two novels short-listed for the 2004 Arthur C. Clarke Award

    In earlier posts, I’ve described my quest to read all the short-listed novels for the major speculative fiction awards: the Nebula, the Locus, the Arthur C. Clarke, and the Hugo. I only decided to take on this arduous task in… Continue reading

  • Two More Short-Listed Arthur C. Clarke Awards Novels

    In my quest to read all the short-listed for the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Awards, I have devoured two more. Ugh–no, I devoured one of them, and the other I choked down. They are: Look HERE for my reviews of… Continue reading