Welcome to the final post in a series examining the contenders in the main prose categories for the Hugo Awards. So far, the Best Novel selection has shown an interesting set of recurring themes along with some stark contrasts. Two of the finalists, Seanan McGuire’s Middlegame and Alix E. Harrow’s The Ten Thousand Doors of…
2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novels – Part 2
Continuing our reviews of the 2020 Hugo Awards finalists in the Best Novel category, we move on to Middlegame by Seanan McGuire and The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow.
2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novels – Part 1
Welcome to another instalment of the WWAC series that takes a close look at the finalists for the 2020 Hugo Awards. Previous posts have examined the contenders for Best Short Story, Best Novelette and Best Novella; now, we reach the final stretch. Here are two of the six finalists for Best Novel: Kameron Hurley’s The…
2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novellas – Part 3
Welcome to the third and final part in a series of articles looking at the works in competition for the Best Novella category at the Hugo Awards.
2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novellas – Part 2
Continuing our reviews of the 2020 Hugo Awards finalists in the Best Novella category, we move on to To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers and Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom by Ted Chiang.
2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novellas – Part 1
Welcome back to the Women Write About Comics series looking at the finalists for the main prose categories at the Hugo Awards. Past instalments have covered Best Short Story and Best Novelette; now, it is time to look at the category for stories long enough to fill books, but still a little too short to…
REVIEW: Harrow the Ninth Goes Well Beyond Gideon’s “Lesbian Necromancers in Space”
After the events of Gideon the Ninth you may be asking yourself, is Harrow okay? Like, not “doing good” exactly but basically…all right? I am here to tell you, No. No, Harrow is not in any way okay.
2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novelettes – Part 3
Welcome to the third and final instalment of a review series covering the finalists for the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Before we go on, now would be a good time to look back at what has already been covered…
2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novelettes – Part 2
Continuing our reviews of the 2020 Hugo Awards finalists in the Best Novelette category, we move on to “Away with the Wolves” by Sarah Gailey and “For He Can Creep” by Siobhan Carroll.
2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novelettes – Part 1
Welcome back to this series of reviews covering the prose stories on the 2020 Hugo Awards ballot. The previous posts in the series looked over the Best Short Story category; now, let us move on to the category for stories of 7,500 to 17,500 words: Best Novelette…
Remembering Charlee Jacob: Vestal
Charlee Jacob’s vampire novel Vestal was published in 2005, the same year that Stephenie Meyer gave vampires a newfound popularity with Twilight. Jacob had tackled vampires before, of course: her debut novel This Symbiotic Fascination was in part a vampire tale, and she also wrote enough vampire short stories to fill an entire anthology, The…
Hugo Awards Reviews: Short Stories – Part 3
Concluding the exploration of the Hugo Awards Short Stories category (read part 1 and part 2) with the final reviews below, we have journeyed from a fantasy empire to an apocalyptic future, met cloud-people and the living dead, and heard tales of cannibal women and dancing dolls. Along the way, it is hard to miss…