Reposting to include Marion’s new review.
Blade of Dream by Daniel Abraham
Blade of Dream is Daniel Abraham’s second book in his KITHAMAR trilogy, though to call it a “sequel” is a bit of a misnomer as rather than directly following the events of Age of Ash, this new story parallels that first book’s events in time, actually intersecting with a few scenes here and there but mostly, or at least somewhat,
August 16th, 2024. Bill Capossere and Marion Deeds´s rating: 5 | Daniel Abraham | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
The 2024 Hugos were announced Saturday night. Best Novel: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh; Best Novella: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher; Best Short Story: “Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer.
The 2026 WorldCon will be held in LA.
Item 3 of File770’s pixel scroll relates an incident at Glasgow’s WorldCon, involving disgraced and banned former Hugo Award director Dave McCarty and a woman in a lovely hat who may or may not have been Ursula Vernon.
Nerds of a Feather reviews Road to Ruin by Hana Lee.
August 14th, 2024. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | no comments |
The Drowning House by Cherie Priest
Cherie Priest should be crowned the queen of cursed houses. First there was Maplecroft, her Lizzie Borden/Lovecraftian suspense novel with the atmospheric house there, then The Family Plot with the old house steeped in family evil. With 2024’s The Drowning House, Priest gives us not one but two cursed houses… and one makes an appearance in a way I’ve never seen before.
In the middle of a wild early-autumn storm,
August 13th, 2024. Marion Deeds´s rating: 4.5 | Cherie Priest | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
2024’s Bury Your Gays didn’t grab me the way Camp Damascus did, but it definitely pulled me in. It’s a different brand of horror that worked convincingly, and I did love Misha, the main character, a Hollywood writer who is the name in queer horror. Tingle creates a world where what happens in the boardroom is every bit as creepy and terrifying as what happens in a dark alley or deserted city park.
As the story opens,
August 12th, 2024. Marion Deeds´s rating: 4 | Chuck Tingle | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
As you might have noticed, thanks to the publishing company known as Armchair Fiction, I have lately been on something of a reading binge when it comes to lost-race fare. Just recently, I wrote here of three books in Armchair’s ongoing Lost World – Lost Race Classics series, which currently stands at a most impressive 58 titles. Those novels were James De Mille’s A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888),
August 8th, 2024. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 4.5 | Ganpat | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
The Dragon Awards ballot is out.
Google lost an important antitrust lawsuit this week.
CBR takes a moment to explore the origins of some of Batman’s best-known foes.
Nerds of Feather review The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years.
As I was seeking out their book review, I rolled past Nerds’ video review of Pentiment, and paused because I was captivated by the art. Here’s the review.
“Hurricane Hunters” isn’t the name of an action movie (although it could be) but the high-altitude aircraft NOAA uses to study tropical storms and hurricanes.
August 7th, 2024. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | no comments |
The Mercy of Gods by James S. Corey
After the brilliance that was THE EXPANSE, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (collectively writing as James S. Corey) are back with The Mercy of Gods (2024), the first book in their new series, THE CAPTIVE’S WAR, and it’s just as good as one would expect it to be. While it shares some narrative DNA with the prior series, The Mercy of Gods is more, um, expansive than THE EXPANSE,
August 5th, 2024. Bill Capossere´s rating: 5 | James S.A. Corey | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!
What’s the best book you read in July 2024 and why did you love it?
It doesn’t have to be a newly published book, or even SFF, or even fiction. We just want to share some great reading material.
Feel free to post a full review of the book here, or a link to the review on your blog, or just write a few sentences about why you thought it was awesome.
And don’t forget that we always have plenty more reading recommendations on our 5-Star SFF page.
August 1st, 2024. FanLit | Giveaway! | 15 comments |
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