It’s time again for one of our favorite games!
Please help us rename the cover of this book.
Got a suggestion for a cover that needs renaming? Please send it to Kat.
We love this game!
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Next SFF Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Author: FanLit
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!
This week marks our EIGHTH birthday! Yep, we’ve been hanging out together (well, some of us) since June 2007!
To celebrate, we’d like to invite some characters from speculative fiction to our virtual birthday party. We’d like YOU to choose the guests. Who should we invite, and why? What do you think might happen? Oh, and of course, you’re invited, too!
EIGHT commenters from the US or Canada will receive a gift from us: some festive FanLit BOOKMARKS and a delicious FANLIT T-SHIRT (or,
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It’s time again for one of our favorite games!
Please help us rename the horrible cover of this book by Grande Dame Andre Norton.
The author of the new title we like best wins a book from the FanLit Stacks.
Got a suggestion for a horrible cover that needs renaming? Please send it to Kat.
We love this game!
NEXT WEEK’s Thoughtful Thursday column: We’ll be giving away all of the Nebula and Hugo nominated novels to one lucky winner!
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Here are our favorite books published in 2014. Hover over the cover to see who recommends each book and what they say about it. Please keep in mind that we did not read every SFF book published in 2014, so we know we’ve missed some good ones! Please add your comments — we’d love to hear your opinions about our list and to know which were YOUR favorite books of 2014. What did we miss? One commenter will win a book from our stacks.
ADULT SFF
MIDDLE GRADE / YOUNG ADULT SFF
ANTHOLOGIES / COLLECTIONS / MAGAZINES / UNTOLD HISTORIES
NEWLY RELEASED ON AUDIO IN 2014:
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Merry Christmas, friends!
We hope you’re all warm and cozy and surrounded by people (and books) you love.
Did you get any books for Christmas? Or gift cards or cash to spend on books?
If so, which books will you buy?
One commenter gets a FanLit T-shirt or a book from our stacks.
NEXT WEEK: Our favorite books of 2014!
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Here’s a book cover that’s screaming for a new name. See it screaming?
Please help us rename the horrible cover of this book by the esteemed Michael Moorcock.
Got a suggestion for a horrible cover that needs renaming? Send it to us.
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We’ve just posted our annual Favorites list — the best books we read which were published for the first time in 2013. For today’s discussion, we’ll tell you why we like some of these books and ask you what you thought of them.
One commenter will win these three anthologies from Tor books: Twenty-First Century Science Fiction, Year’s Best SF 18, and Dangerous Women. Thanks, Tor!
You can find our reviews for each of the novels listed below by clicking on the linked author names.
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Here are our favorite books published in 2013. Hover over the cover to see who recommends each book. Click the cover to read our review. Please keep in mind that we did not read every SFF book published this year, so we know we’ve missed some good ones! You can read some of our thoughts about these books in today’s later Thoughtful Thursday post, and you can add your comments there — we’d love to hear your opinions about our list.
ADULT SFF
YA FANTASY
ANTHOLOGIES / COLLECTIONS
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Today we welcome Bradley Wirz, founder and CEO of GoneReading International, a non-profit organization that funds reading related charities. Since we first mentioned this wonderful organization, they have funded their first library in Ethiopia! You can support GoneReading by purchasing some of their gifts for readers such as the ones shown here. There are many more at their website and 100% of the profits go toward increasing literacy around the world. We’ll pick one commenter (anywhere in the world) who may choose up to $25 worth of merchandise from the GoneReading store!
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Here are our favorite books published in 2012. Hover over the cover to see who recommends each book. Please keep in mind that we did not read every SFF book published in 2012, so we know we’ve missed some good ones! You can read some of our thoughts about these books in today’s later Thoughtful Thursday post, and you can add your comments there, too. We look forward to hearing about your favorite books of 2012!
ADULT SFF
CHILDREN / YOUNG ADULT
ANTHOLOGIES/ STORY COLLECTIONS
AUDIOBOOKS released in 2012
COMICS
We’ve discussed some of these books here.
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Next SFF Author: Ben Aaronovitch
I love your review, and I'm so glad Mark Twain finally came around to seeing it our way.
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