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2013 Locus SF Winner: REDSHIRTS by John Scalzi 1 Aug 2013 | 11:16 pm
Hey, I'm alive! I have a good streak of reviews for all of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus SF winning novels going, so I thought I'd peek in to keep those up. So, I'm doing Locus-winner Redshirts today, ...
2012 Hugo nominee, novel: AMONG OTHERS by Jo Walton 24 Jun 2012 | 04:21 am
For trendspotters, there’s a nice resonance between this book and Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. Both are novels with strong sf elements about young people overcoming rotten childhoods and doing s...
2012 Hugo nominee, novel: A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by George R. R. Martin 20 Jun 2012 | 08:47 am
Yes, I'm still here. This summer is gonna be rough for me, so expect sparser and shorter posts. Sorry. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire is surely the hottest property in speculative publishing at the mo...
2012 Hugo nominee, novel: EMBASSYTOWN by China Mieville 26 May 2012 | 07:53 am
Mieville has obviously made plenty of waves in the past decade, and I have to admit that his books are consistently very good, even if only one has really clicked with me. As much as the Hugos have t...
2012 Hugo nominee: novel - DEADLINE by Mira Grant 18 May 2012 | 02:04 am
Let the Hugo coverage begin! I'm going to keep this short, if for no other reason than that it's difficult to talk about without spoiling the first volume. This is the sequel to last year's Hugo nomi...
RULE 34 by Charles Stross 10 May 2012 | 03:12 pm
This book is the sequel to Halting State, which I did read first. Halting State is a quick moving techno-thriller that I enjoyed more than any Stross I’d read yet. It took place in a near-future Scotl...
2011 – READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline 30 Apr 2012 | 03:14 pm
Yes, this review requires an '80s soundtrack. Ernest Cline's first novel takes place in a dystopian future of economic and environmental collapse. Or, at least, that's somewhere in the background. Mo...
2011 – THE MAGICIAN KING by Lev Grossman 24 Apr 2012 | 02:41 pm
Lev Grossman (rather belatedly since he’s been a published novelist for a while) won last year’s Campbell for best new writer. A couple of years ago, I noted some fondness for Grossman’s The Magicians...
2011 - SUPERGODS: WHAT MASKED VIGILANTES, MIRACULOUS MUTANTS, AND A SUN GOD FROM SMALLVILLE CAN TEACH US ABOUT BEING HUMAN by Grant Morrison 17 Apr 2012 | 03:19 pm
So, I've decided to get the non-Hugo-nominated material I read for 2011 out of the way before jumping into the Hugos in a few weeks. This, for instance, is a book that I nominated for "related work," ...
1956 - THE STARS MY DESTINATION by Alfred Bester 12 Apr 2012 | 01:43 am
Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man won the first Hugo, so reading this novel, usually considered his masterpiece, feels a bit like circling back to this blog's beginning. Many authors look up to Beste...
