Awards:
File 770 posted this year’s Dragon Award winners. Brad R. Torgerson won best SF novel for A Star-Wheeled Sky, and Larry Correia won best fantasy novel for House of Assassins.
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu won the Barry Ronge award in South Africa for her book The Theory of Flight. The award honors writers whose works “enthrall with their imagined worlds.”
Books and Writing:
BookExpo will return to an old format for its 2020 event.
September 11th, 2019. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | 2 comments |
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall
Captain John Wyndham has returned to Khelathra-Ven after being away with the army for several years. Rents are high, so he decides to answer an ad for a housemate. When he moves in, he discovers that his new companion is Shaharazad Haas, a renowned and powerful sorceress who’s addicted to opium. When Ms. Haas is asked to find out who is blackmailing her ex-girlfriend, Captain Wyndham tags along and starts getting involved in a case which turns into a weird and wacky adventure.
September 11th, 2019. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Alexis Hall | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Chronin Vol. 2: The Sword in Your Hand by Alison Wilgus
Chronin Vol. 1: The Knife at Your Back introduced readers to Mirai Yoshida, a wise-cracking time-traveling university student who became stranded in the city of Edo (current-day Tokyo) just before Japan’s Meiji Restoration period. Posing as a male ronin and running errands for the locals has kept her alive and fed, but she was never intended to spend years living in the past, and the danger that her multiple secrets could be exposed is very real.
September 11th, 2019. Jana Nyman´s rating: 4.5 | Comics | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
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