I don’t think I posted the Hugo Award finalists for this year. Here they are. This list shows me how behind I got in my reading last year.
The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association announced the finalists for the Aurora Awards.
Spock’s first name has been revealed! Oh, wait, no it hasn’t. (Thanks to File 770.)
To no one’s surprise, there’s been a spike in book-banning. There’s been a spike in voter suppression laws and other laws designed to take away people’s rights,
April 13th, 2022. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | no comments |
Vampires of the Andes by Henry Carew
Just as it’s patently obvious that “You can’t judge a book by its cover,” it seems to me that one might justifiably add the statement “You can’t judge a book by its title, either.” Case in point: the novel that I recently experienced, Vampires of the Andes. Now, with a title like that, one might automatically be led to assume that this would be a rather pulpy, empty-headed affair; a simply written story, perhaps concerning a gaggle of caped and transplanted Carpathian neck noshers,
April 13th, 2022. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | Henry Carew | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 6 comments |
That's what I think,too!
As an old fan of '60s-era Marvel comics, I must say that this book looks FUN!
COMMENT Book #3 of this trilogy is very much a heist story, and I quite enjoyed it!
Pirate stories and heist stories... Do we ever get enough of them?
Very interesting, Ulrich! Thanks for clueing me in!