Next SFF Author: Ben Aaronovitch

Day: June 21, 2017


WWWednesday: June 21, 2017

The name for the sound a quail makes is called curkling. That’s this week’s word for Wednesday.

Skye is looking forward to The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss.  Skye says, “I loved ‘Red and Blood and White as Bone’”  by the same author.

The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera comes out this October and looks like it will include some interesting elements and characters. I’m excited to see what it has in store!”

Rebecca also sees some treats on the New Releases list.


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A Closed and Common Orbit: A popular Hugo nominee that bored me

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Warning: This review will contain a spoiler for the previous novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. It’s really impossible to talk about A Closed and Common Orbit without this spoiler. However, you don’t need to read The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet before reading A Closed and Common Orbit since this sequel focuses on two minor characters from the first book.


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Doomstar: Hamilton goes out like a pro

Doomstar by Edmond Hamilton

As I have mentioned elsewhere, sci-fi pulpmaster Edmond Hamilton, during the early decades of his career, destroyed so many planets in his stories that he managed to acquire for himself the nickname “World Wrecker.” But in his final novel, Doomstar, the destruction of a mere planet seemed to be small potatoes for the Ohio-born author, and nothing less than the death — or, in this case, the poisoning — of a solar body would suffice! Doomstar was initially released as a 50-cent Belmont paperback in January 1966,


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Next SFF Author: Ben Aaronovitch

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