Writer David B. Coe blogs about clueless writing advice. There’s not any actual writing advice but it’s an entertaining column, and I’m pretty sure we’ve all had some version of this experience.
You can be famous a number of ways. YA SFF writer Kass Morgan, (aka Mallory Kass) author of The 100, competed on Jeopardy last week.
From last week, fantasy writer Patricia A. McKillip passed away at the age of 74. This was a big loss for me.
May 18th, 2022. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | 2 comments |
Minimum Wage Magic by Rachel Aaron
My teenage daughter (Tali) and I enjoyed listening together to the audiobook editions of Rachel Aaron’s HEARTSTRIKERS series, so we were pleased to learn that Aaron wrote (and self-published) a spin-off series also set in the Detroit Free Zone (DFZ), which takes place a couple of decades after the end of Last Dragon Standing.
But you don’t need to read the HEARTSTRIKERS books first, so feel free to jump in right here with Minimum Wage Magic (2018).
May 18th, 2022. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Rachel Aaron | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Phasers on Stun! by Ryan Britt
Phasers on Stun!, by Ryan Britt, is a breezily informative and fun look at the many (and I mean many) incarnations of Star Trek over the decades since it first appeared on television in the late 60s. While it’s true there isn’t a lot new to say about the original series, and to a lesser extent The Next Generation, Britt still manages for find a few nuggets to offer something fresh to fans,
May 17th, 2022. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4.5 | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Best of Walter Jon Williams by Walter Jon Williams
The Best of Walter Jon Williams (2021) is a 663-page tome containing, as its name implies, twelve of Walter Jon Williams’ best stories spanning four decades of his writing career. Fans will appreciate Subterranean Press’s beautiful hardcover edition of this collection (there’s also an audio edition). And for readers who aren’t familiar with this prolific writer, The Best of Walter Jon Williams is a good place to start getting to know him.
May 16th, 2022. Kat Hooper´s rating: 4.5 | Walter Jon Williams | Audio, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth (vol. 9): The Reign of the Black Flame by Mike Mignola (writer), John Arcudi (writer), James Harren (art), Dave Stewart (colors), Clem Robins (letters).
At the end of last issue, Liz regains her powers and returns to the B.P.R.D., and Fenix, too, returns to the base. Both of them are in time to join the teams going into New York, so this issue starts with them on the ground, on a fact-finding mission. Kate Corrigan gave them orders to assess the threats in New York and,
May 14th, 2022. Brad Hawley´s rating: 5 | Mike Mignola | Comics | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
2022’s Siren Queen by Nghi Vo is another 5-star read. Set in the same world as The Chosen and the Beautiful, Siren Queen looks at the magic of movies, and the exploitative studio system of the medium’s early days. In Vo’s world, the magic of movies is real magic, and that magic is often hungry.
Our main character is a Chinese American girl in Los Angeles who becomes enthralled with the magic of moving pictures.
May 13th, 2022. Marion Deeds´s rating: 5 | Nghi Vo | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Today’s covers all come from books, comics, or films we reviewed in April 2022. Once you identify a cover, in the comment section list:
1. The number of the cover (1-12)
2. The author/director
3. The book/film title
Please identify just one cover that has not yet been identified correctly so that others will have a chance to play. If they’re not all identified by next Thursday at noon EST, you can come back and identify more.
Each of your correct entries enters you into a drawing to win a book of your choice from our stacks (if you’re in the U.S.A.),
May 12th, 2022. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 14 comments |
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson’s millennia-spanning epic The Boat of a Million Years (1989) follows the lives of several unusual human beings starting from a few hundred years before the birth of Christ and ending sometime in the far future.
For some unknown reason, these folks are essentially immortal, not appearing to age past 25 years old and remaining fertile forever. They heal quickly and are immune to disease, though they can be killed by accident or murder.
The problem is that these few immortal people,
May 12th, 2022. Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Poul Anderson | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
The podcast Tales From the Trunk hosted me last week on a Book Tour segment. I had a lot of fun; Hilary, the host of Tales from the Trunk, is a witty and welcoming host.
File 770 rounds up Hugo nominees and other anime in this article.
SWFA’s silent auction, fundraising in partnership with Worldbuilders, continues through next week.
John Palisano discusses Jewish heritage in horror.
Nerds of a Feather takes a look at the finalists for the Ignyte awards,
May 11th, 2022. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | 2 comments |
The Cave of a Thousand Columns by T.E. Grattan-Smith
I have never been to the continent of Australia before, and after watching a number of videos, both online and on television, concerning the fauna and flora there, I am really in no great rush to go. Perhaps you’re familiar with some of the videos I mean? Australia, it would seem, is home to the inland taipan snake (the world’s most venomous snake), kamikaze magpies, the freshwater bull shark, the Australian honeybee (one of the world’s most poisonous insects), raining spiders,
May 10th, 2022. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | T.E. Grattan-Smith | SFF Reviews | 6 comments |
Oh, Marion, you say "but dark" as if it were a bad thing! 😂
Hammer Studios is... reborn? I only ever read the "Kane" stories, which I found good but dark. It's a little…
Oh...and the men used the name "The Great Northern Expedition" to throw people off as to their actual destination, even…
Oh, it IS, Marion! It is!
Sorry if I mislead you in this detail, Paul...the voyage by ship was only the first leg of the quintet's…