I have been out of town most of this week, so the column is short today.
The Nebula Awards were announced on Friday. Here is the list of winners. Network Effect by Martha Wells took Best Novel and Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark took Best Novella.
Chris Salisbury muses on the power of night, and what we’ve lost be fearing the darkness.
This is a nice profile of S.B. Divya.
Secondhand booksellers in the UK are piloting a scheme to pay limited royalties to the writers (as you know,
June 9th, 2021. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | no comments |
Yadriel’s Latinx community in East Los Angeles practices brujería. The men are brujos who escort ghosts to their final resting place and the women are brujas who have healing powers. But Yadriel’s large close family has not supported his desire to be a brujo because he is transgender. Their community has strict gender roles, they don’t see him as a boy, and they don’t think the brujo magic will work for him (though the women’s bruja magic definitely doesn’t work for Yadriel).
Yadriel is determined to prove not only that he is a boy,
June 9th, 2021. Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Aiden Thomas | Audio, Stand-Alone, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Kind of you to say. I certainly like to think so!
BTW, Steve Sterner will be performing at seven films during this upcoming fest: https://filmforum.org/series/clara-bow
As far as I know, Bill, Steve Sterner is the only person who does the live accompaniment to silent movies…
And I'm positive that Kaidan will fondly remember watching these movies with his old man for the rest of his…
You bet, Marion!