Tag Archives: Hugo /nom
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark
Read February 2019 Recommended for fans of djinn, interesting reads ★ ★ ★ ★ Cairo, 1912 or so. There’s a ghost in Tram Car 015, although Senior Agent Hamed is fairly certain it isn’t a ghost. You … Continue reading
Hugo 2019 Novelette Nominations
“If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again” by Zen Cho Best Novelette nomination and Winner https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-try-try-again-by-zen-cho/ Sweet. A touch uneven but a solid heart. Chinese dragons, karma, transformation, all rolled in to a modernized version of a traditional … Continue reading
Short Story Round-up: 2019 Hugos
“The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society” by T. Kingfisher, 2018 Best Short Story Nomination https://uncannymagazine.com/article/t… “But far beyond the merriment and the music and the trapped mortals, there was a campfire, and around it sat a half-dozen men, and … Continue reading
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Read October 2018 Recommended for fans of Bloody folk tales ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Nominated for a Hugo, Nebula, and Shirley Jackson Awards,* The Ballad of Black Tom is a fine little novella, made accessible to horror dilettantes by … Continue reading
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Read September 2018 Recommended for fans of hard sci-fi ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 This is a very dense book, packed with ideas. Although Watts mentions he’s a biologist by training, you wouldn’t know it, between … Continue reading
The City & The City by China Mieville
Read January 2018 Recommended for Fans of Miéville ★ ★ ★ Can a city have a personality? I think so. Certainly the feel of Los Angeles is entirely different from NYC, and different again from Chicago, right? … Continue reading
The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson
Read November 2017 Recommended for fans of classic sci-fi ★ ★ ★ Winner of both a Nebula and a Hugo, The Saturn Game tempted me by being a mix of both fantasy and sci-fi. I’ve had some success with Poul … Continue reading
When Gravity Falls by George Alec Effinger
Read June 2017 Recommended for people who enjoy futuristic detective noir ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 I don’t even. This book engrossed me, sucked me in, took me to the seediest bar in town, plied me with cheap booze and left … Continue reading
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Read April 2017 Recommended for fans of character-driven stories, sci-fi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I understand that some people weren’t fans of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Personally, in my heart of hearts, I kind of … Continue reading
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
Read July 2016 Recommended for fans of mythology, Valente ★ ★ ★ ★ Take fairy tale mythology, the sideways structure of Native American folklore, a Wild West setting, weave it through with themes on race and gender … Continue reading
