Thank you for joining us once again as WWAC continues its trip through the 2021 Hugo Award finalists with reviews of two more stories in the Best Novelette category…
Jim Butcher, Andy Weir, T. Kingfisher Amongst 2021 Dragon Award Winners
Atlanta’s Dragon Con was been hit by further disruptions from the ongoing pandemic: last year’s iteration was virtual; this year’s Dragon Con was physical, but operating at reduced capacity. One event unaffected by COVID-19, however, was the presentation of the annual Dragon Awards. Decided with the aid of an online poll open to the public,…
2021 Hugo Award Reviews: Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super/Helicopter Story
Having covered all six finalists for Best Short Story, WWAC’s coverage of the Hugo Awards now moves on to the Best Novelette category, starting with A. T. Greenblatt’s “Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super” and Isabel Fall’s “Helicopter Story” (formerly titled “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter”).
2021 Hugo Award Reviews: Metal Like Blood in the Dark/Open House on Haunted Hill
Welcome to the third installment of WWAC’s coverage of the 2021 Hugo Award prose fiction finalists. This post shall examine two more contenders for Best Short Story: “Metal Like Blood in the Dark” by T. Kingfisher and “Open House on Haunted Hill” by John Wiswell…
2021 Hugo Award Reviews: The Mermaid Astronaut/A Guide for Working Breeds
We continue our coverage of the 2021 Hugo Award finalists with a look at two more contenders in the Best Short Story category: “The Mermaid Astronaut” by Yoon Ha Lee and “A Guide for Working Breeds” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad… “The Mermaid Astronaut” by Yoon Ha Lee Essarala is a mermaid fascinated by the upper…
2021 Hugo Award Reviews: Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse/Little Free Library
With the pandemic having delayed this year’s Worldcon until December, the 2021 Hugo Awards for science fiction and fantasy will be handed out a little later than usual. Whatever changes may take place, Women Write About Comics shall be continuing its tradition of reviewing the prose finalists while SF/F readers the world over await the…
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] 2021 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story Part 2
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. As an exclusive for our Patreon subscribers, here is the concluding part to Women Write About Comics’ examination of the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story finalist: Once & Future…
Death, Plague, War, and Feminism: The Fourth Whore by E.V. Knight
When Kenzi Brooks was seven years old, her brother Robbie died in a car accident. As well as the guilt of having failed to save him Kenzi is left with a distorted set of memories from the incident – memories that fully emerge only when she dreams of Robbie’s death being overseen by a man…
REVIEW: New Decade, New Blood: Vampires Never Get Old
For several years now, various internet wags have provided statistics indicating that the comparative popularity of zombies and vampires correlate with US political administrations: zombies have peak periods when Republicans are in power, while vampires have their boom years when the Democrats hold the White House. How seriously this data should be taken is debatable; but…
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] 2021 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story Part 1
Since 2009 the Hugo Awards have had a category for Best Graphic Story. Although overshadowed to some extent by dedicated comic awards like the Eisners, this corner of the Hugos nonetheless remains a prominent honour in its field, with a handful of contenders and one winner chosen each year from the mass of published comics….
Investing in the Gods: Nezha, Jiang Ziya and the Fengshen Cinematic Universe
The global box office has long been dominated by Hollywood blockbusters. If you look at one of the past decade’s annual lists of the highest-grossing films, chances are you will be confronted with the continuing adventures of Marvel superheroes, the latest iteration of Star Wars, and other such bankable tentpoles. Things changed in 2020, however:…
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Star Beasts and Spider-Gods: Doctor Who Comics of the Tom Baker Era
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. A science fiction series as long-running as Doctor Who could hardly avoid spawning its fair share of comics. By the same token, comics tying in with a science fiction series as…