The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019), by Alix E. Harrow, is one of the most beautiful books you will read in 2019. It may be one of the most beautiful books you’ll read in your lifetime. When I say it’s beautiful, I don’t simply mean the prose and the imagery, although those both are gorgeous. I mean that this is a beautiful story. The journey of January Scaller, set against the USA’s Long Gilded Age,
August 27th, 2019. Marion Deeds, Tadiana Jones and Kat Hooper´s rating: 5 | Alix E. Harrow | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
Hugos:
The Hugos were announced in Dublin, Ireland on Sunday evening. Winners include:
At 29,
August 21st, 2019. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | no comments |
A belated happy Independence Day to our American readers, and a great collection of summer reads!
Kat: Now that my freshmen are getting the hang of things, I was able to consume a few books this week: Bewitched and Betrothed is the newest book in Juliet Blackwell’s WITCHCRAFT MYSTERIES. These are so good in audio format. In The Shadow of Spindrift House was a creepy little Lovecraftian work by Mira Grant. Also Lovecraftian was The Labyrinth Index,
July 7th, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 4 comments |
The 2019 Hugo Awards will be presented at Worldcon 77 in Dublin, Ireland, on August 18. The Hugo Award finalists are chosen by readers who are voting members of Worldcon. This week we’ll talk about the shortest works, novelettes and short stories. We’ll discuss other categories in future columns.
Click the title links below to read our reviews and on the author links to visit our page for the author. I’ve included the cover art for our favorites.
Who do you think will win the Hugo Award in these categories?
June 27th, 2019. Marion Deeds | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 10 comments |
Plenty more fun books this week!
Bill: This week my one full book was an excellent look at the use of remote sensing in science, Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past by Sarah Parcak. I made a second attempt at Tide of Stone by Kaaron Warren, but only got a bit more than a third of the way in before giving it up once more. In shorter works, I took a look at several Hugo retro works: short stories by Asimov,
June 23rd, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 1 comment |
The Nebula Awards are in our rearview, and next up are the Locus Awards, leading us into Hugo Season!
The Locus Weekend will be held in Seattle, Washington, on June 28-30, 2019.
The Locus Awards have lots of categories, so I am focused on the short fiction this week and in a few weeks we’ll discuss the novels.
Click the title links below to read our reviews and on the author links to visit our page for the author. I’ve included the cover art for some of our favorites.
Who do you think will win the Locus Award in these categories?
May 30th, 2019. Marion Deeds | Locus Award | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 17 comments |
The Golden Gate bridge had a birthday this week. It wasn’t a milestone one. The bridge opened to traffic on May 27, 1937.
Awards:
Selmaa Ahmad was awarded the first A.C. Bose Grant from the Speculative Fiction Foundation. The award is presented to a South Asian diaspora writer developing speculative fiction. Ahmad’s stories sound wonderful.
The Ursa Major awards, for excellence in the furry arts, were awarded on May 26, at AnthroOhio.
Also honoring the anthropomorphic, the Coyotl awards, presented in Portland, Oregon. (I’m tempted to write something with a nonhuman-mammal MC,
May 29th, 2019. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | no comments |
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s 54th Annual Nebula conference (May 16-19) will be held in Los Angeles, and the 2018 Nebula Awards will be announced on Saturday, May 18, 2019.
Today let’s talk about the finalists for Best Novelette and Best Short Story. We’ll talk about other categories in future columns.
Here are the finalists in these categories. Click the links to read our reviews and get the links to the stories:
BEST NOVELETTE:
April 18th, 2019. Marion Deeds | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 14 comments |
Plenty more fun books this week. Take a peek!
Bill: This week I read Jenn Lyons’ solid The Ruin of Kings, Ian Cameron Esslemont’s satisfactorily concluding Malazan prequel book Kellanved’s Reach, and Gareth Hinds’ excellent graphic story version of The Iliad.
Jana: This week I got to the halfway mark in S.A. Chakraborty‘s City of Brass (and am still thoroughly enjoying it) and finished both Jordanna Max Brodsky‘s The Wolf in the Whale and Jessie Mihalik’s Polaris Rising.
February 4th, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 2 comments |
Here are some of the books we can’t wait for in 2019!
Hover over the covers to see what our reviewers said about each book.
Which books are you looking forward to this year? One commenter wins a book from our stacks.
January 17th, 2019. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 45 comments |
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