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Thoughtful Thursday: What’s the best book you read last month?

It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!

What’s the best book you read in May 2023 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 Fanlit Faves page and our 5-Star SFF page.


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June 1st, 2023. | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 14 comments |

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Thoughtful Thursday: What’s the best book you read last month?

It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!

What’s the best book you read in April 2023 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 Fanlit Faves page and our 5-Star SFF page.


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May 4th, 2023. | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 15 comments |

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WWWednesday: April 26, 2023

Several months ago, John Scalzi reported the opening of the Scalzi Family Foundation. Here is one of their first philanthropic efforts.

Thanks to File 770 for this one! As part of a scholar’s Masters thesis in Communication, this database includes many (most? All?) fictional brand names. You can search by alpha, or by alpha within categories.

If you’re an eligible voter, you have about one more week to vote for the Hugos, and here is a post with some resources to help you decide who gets your vote.


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April 26th, 2023. | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 9 comments |

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Thoughtful Thursday: What’s the best book you read last month?

It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!

What’s the best book you read in March 2023 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 Fanlit Faves page and our 5-Star SFF page.


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April 6th, 2023. | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 12 comments |

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WWWednesday: March 22, 2023

One commenter selected at random will win a copy of Veronica Roth’s Arch-Conspirator.

Alexi Vandenberg appears to be the latest competitor in the George Santos Sweepstakes. Known at conventions for his large bookselling booth, often under the name of Bard’s Tower, Vandenberg presented himself as a publisher and as someone who once worked with President George W. Bush. It appears that, in the tradition of con artists everywhere, Vandenberg has, among other things, sold companies that didn’t exist. He also is alleged to have violated contracts and sexually harassed people.


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March 22nd, 2023. | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 9 comments |

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Thoughtful Thursday: What’s the best book you read last month?

It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!

What’s the best book you read in February 2023 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 Fanlit Faves page and our 5-Star SFF page.


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March 2nd, 2023. | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 8 comments |

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WWWednesday: March 1, 2023

Single topic column this week. One commenter will get a hardcopy of The Secret Skin by Wendy N. Wagner.

The Eidolon is billed as  Book One of the MAGNUS ACADEMY series, part of K.D. Edwards’s TAROT SEQUENCE world. It is a companion piece to the third book of his first trilogy, The Hourglass Throne. It you haven’t read The Hourglass Throne, it’s not likely you’ll understand what’s going on here.


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March 2nd, 2023. | | Giveaway!, SFF Reviews, World Wide Wednesday | 8 comments |

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WWWednesday: February 15, 2023

Giveaway: One commenter chosen as random will get a hardcopy of C.L. Polk’s Even Though I Knew the End.

Here’s an inspiring if not very medical update on the condition of Jeremy Renner, who sustained many broken bones and other injuries in a snow plow accident earlier this winter.

Those objects in the sky we keep shooting down; could they be… ETs? Ars Technica thinks not and explains why. (Actually, this article discusses the history of the US government’s exploration of these and other airborne objects.) From a few days earlier,


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February 15th, 2023. | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 8 comments |

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Thoughtful Thursday: What’s the best book you read last month?

It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!

What’s the best book you read in January 2023 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 Fanlit Faves page and our 5-Star SFF page.


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February 2nd, 2023. | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 12 comments |

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Thoughtful Thursday: What’s the best book you read last month/year?

It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!

What’s the best book you read in December 2022 and why did you love it? If you like, you can also tell us about your favorite book of 2022.

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.


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January 5th, 2023. | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 18 comments |

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Thoughtful Thursday: What’s the best book you read last month?

It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!

What’s the best book you read in November 2022 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 Fanlit Faves page and our 5-Star SFF page.


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December 1st, 2022. | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 11 comments |

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WWWednesday: November 30, 2022

Lindsey Eagar serves up eight fantasy books featuring bread, bread-adjacent foods, and/or baking, on Tor.com.

Giveaway: One commenter chosen at random will win a copy of Even Though I Knew the End  by C.L. Polk.

Vulture has an overview of the life of the amazing Octavia Butler, written by E. Alex Jung.

We’re heading into nomination season for the 2023 awards, and Cora Buhlert is introducing podcasts. This column highlights Tales From the Trunk.


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November 30th, 2022. | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 11 comments |

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WWWednesday: November 23, 2022

Have a good day tomorrow everybody, if you celebrate the holiday or it you don’t.

Giveaway: One commenter chosen at random will get a copy of Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi.

Greg Bear, Nebula Award winner, passed away on November 20, 2022.

Snoopy is part of Project Artemis. At least, a stuffed Snoopy dog is on the lunar vehicle.

The Onion posted this satirical article about Meta, Mark Zuckerberg and his avatar. Oh, come on, they just wrote what we were all thinking.


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November 23rd, 2022. | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 18 comments |

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Thoughtful Thursday: What’s the best book you read last month?

FanLit readers, we just discovered that our email notifications for posts and giveaways haven’t been working for at least a couple of months because Google’s Feedburner finally quit sending them, as it’s been warning us for years that it would. We’re working on a fix for this. In the sidebar there’s a place to sign up for email notifications which you can filter for certain tags (such as “Giveaway”) if you like. For now, we’re trying it out to see how we like it. If we don’t like it, we’ll try something different.

It’s the first Thursday of the month.


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November 3rd, 2022. | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 19 comments |

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For David Walton, it’s all about the dinosaurs. (Giveaway!)

Today we welcome David Walton, whose science fiction thriller Living Memory was just released on October 18th (here’s my review). This is the seventh novel of David’s we’ve reviewed and in the past he’s been gracious enough to sit down with us (so to speak) to answer some questions about his books and his writing in general.

This time, we’re not doing any of the talking. Instead, David has gifted us with an essay about how Living Memory, at least in part,


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October 21st, 2022. | | Author Interviews, Expanded Universe, Giveaway! | 12 comments |

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WWWednesday: October 19, 2022

Trick or Treat! One commenter selected at random gets a copy of Craig Laurance Gidney’s story collection The Nectar of Nightmares.

Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

Dame Carmen Callil, who founded the feminist Virago Press, passed away at the age of 84. Virago reissued classic works by women that had been allowed to languish as well as popular fiction of previous decades that had also faded from memory or been erased. In 1972,


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October 19th, 2022. | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 5 comments |

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Thoughtful Thursday: What’s the best book you read last month?

It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!

What’s the best book you read in September 2022 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 Fanlit Faves page and our 5-Star SFF page.


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October 6th, 2022. | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 12 comments |

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WWWednesday: September 14, 2022

In honor of my birthday, one commenter will get a copy of T. Kingfisher‘s southern gothic horror novel, The Twisted Ones.  In this column I discuss my reaction to a re-read of a classic 1990s fantasy novel.

Published in 1998, Someplace to be Flying is not the first entry in Charles de Lint’s NEWFORD series. It’s the fifth book in publishing order, with several earlier works being story collections. In my opinion, it’s a fine place to start the series and get introduced to de Lint’s fictional midwestern Canadian city (probably modeled on Ottawa) and his blend of folk magic,


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September 14th, 2022. | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 7 comments |

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Thoughtful Thursday: What’s the best book you read last month?

It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!

What is the best book you read in August 2022 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 Fanlit Faves page and our 5-Star SFF page.


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September 1st, 2022. | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 8 comments |

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Thoughtful Thursday: What’s the best book you read last month?

It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!

What is the best book you read in July 2022 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 Fanlit Faves page and our 5-Star SFF page.


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August 4th, 2022. | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 10 comments |

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