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WWWednesday: May 28, 2025

This article about the original Charlie’s Angels movie with Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu, and the “wrong” bird used in a pivotal scene, is long, but it’s written in an engaging way and I learned more about birds that I ever planned to. I enjoyed it and I hope you do.

After three seasons, Amazon Prime has canceled Wheel of Time.

At least with Reactor, Murderbot continues to please. (Warning, spoilers.)

It’s almost summer, which everyone knows is cannibal novel season.


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A Drop of Corruption: A glorious magic act

A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

2025’s A Drop of Corruption is the second book in Robert Jackson Bennett‘s latest series, THE SHADOW OF THE LEVIATHAN (or, alternately, THE ANA AND DIN MYSTERIES). Set in the same world as the first book, The Tainted Cup, A Drop of Corruption is a glorious magic act, filled with misdirection, mirrors, impersonations, disguises, codes and clues. It also holds a contemplation of the nature of kingdoms and kings.


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WWWednesday: May 21, 2025

Murderbot, the Show, premiered on Apple+ last week. Here is Reactor’s reaction to it.

Looking for a news editing job? Reactor is hiring.

Also from Reactor, five books with imposters or con artists.

The 2025 Eisner Award candidates are announced. (Thanks to File770.)

The Guardian has some thoughts on the candidates for the International Booker Prize.

Nerds of a Feather reviews an epic fantasy novel, Birth of a Dynasty,


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The Crescent Moon Tearoom: After a slow start, this cozy fantasy soars

The Crescent Moon Tearoom by Stacy Sivinski

I finally found a cozy, small-stakes fantasy that simply and completely entertained me. 2024’s The Crescent Moon Tearoom, by Stacy Sivinski, resonates as much with Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women as it does with the CW’s seminal 1990s TV show Charmed (except no one wastes away from consumption). Three witchy sisters deal with a thriving business, the Witch Council and its demands, and their own growing powers.

To be fair, the cozy subgenre isn’t my cup of tea.


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WWWednesday: May 7, 2025

Marvel unveils their Pride Variant covers.

This is a well-written article, as the UK Guardian questions Marvel’s logic in adding a mentally unstable god to the Thunderbolts* Team.

Reactor shares an excerpt of Tochi Onyebuchi’s new hard-boiled detective novel, Harmattan Season.

Molly Templeton contemplates SF books that play with narrative form.

Magicians guard an empty safe:” A delightful interview with a stage magician.

Looking for the box office for Sinners, I found this article about Thunderbolts*,


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Aunt Tigress: A rich blending of traditions enlivens a Tam Lin Tale

Aunt Tigress by Emily Yu-Xuan Qin

2025’s Aunt Tigress brings the reader a rich mix of cultures and folkloric traditions in a story rooted in the Scottish fairy tale of Tam Lin and Janet. Don’t expect a traditional telling of the story here. Emily Yu-Xuan Qin’s story takes place in modern-day Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Tam is Canadian-Chinese, struggling to put some shameful acts behind her and finish college, but her new girlfriend, Janet, and Tam’s powerful, disturbing Aunt Tigress have other plans—especially once Tam is told that her aunt has been murdered,


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Rose of Jericho: Eerie, beguiling fantastical Americana

Rose of Jericho by Alex Grecian

Rose of Jericho (2025) is a sequel to Alex Grecian’s wild and vivid Americana fantasy Red Rabbit. Several characters from that book appear here, as the action shifts from the 1880s Midwest to Ascension, Massachusetts, where people who die aren’t staying dead.

This review contains spoilers for Red Rabbit.

In the village of Ascension, Clarissa Sinclair is dying of cancer. Her self-centered, uncaring husband sent her to their summer home,


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WWWednesday: April 30, 2025

Sir Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch, the first “Watch” book in his DISCWORLD series, is now being published as a Penguin Modern Classic.

Roseanna shares her struggles with the critical work Colourfields; Writing About Writing About Science Fiction, over at Nerds of a Feather.

Conquest of Space was meant to be the most realistic “outer space” film ever made. Did the 70+ year old classic fall short? (Thanks to File770.)

From last month,


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One Message Remains: Four innovative, deeply psychological stories

One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed

Yes, we are cruel. Yes, the world does not use that word as a compliment as we do.

Premee Mohamed is one of my favorite writers in the field. With 2025’s themed story collection One Message Remains she reminds me once again of why I like her work so much.

These four stories all take place either within the decadent, aggressive nation of Treotan, or in one of the nations it has invaded. Treotan, dying from within, still relies on its military and continues its invasions.


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Red Rabbit: Perfect blend of western adventure and wild magic

Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian

2023’s Red Rabbit, by Alex Grecian, is a solid entry in a category of speculative fiction I call fantastical Americana. Set in the American Midwest a few years after the Civil War, the book starts when some men in a town in Burden County, Kansas, put a bounty on the head of the local witch. This brings all kinds of killers into the county. Meanwhile, farther south, two former union soldiers partner up with Old Tom, self-proclaimed witch-master, and the mute child,


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