Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature.
Carmilla’s Kindred: Vampire Brides
Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature.
Carmilla’s Kindred: Belles Dames sans Merci
Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature.
Carmilla’s Kindred: The Vampiress in Verse
Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature.
2022 Ignyte Awards: P. Djèlí Clark, Eden Royce and Darcie Little Badger Amongst Winners
The annual Ignyte Awards, a prize handed out by FIYAHCON to celebrate diverse voices in fantasy and science fiction, saw their third iteration this Saturday.
REVIEW: Nona the Ninth Nestles You Nicely in a Nightmare
In Nona the Ninth, the third book in The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir, readers get a ton of backstory about how this necromantic space empire came to be. We also get to spend a lot more time with some of the characters who had been secondary in earlier books. Like Gideon and Harrow,…
REVIEW: Disney Princesses: Beyond the Tiara Is Just a Little Too Commercial
Disney Princess: Beyond the Tiara tells you everything you’ve ever wanted to know about how Disney Princesses became such a cultural force in American life. The book promises to explore the whys and hows of Walt Disney’s decision to make Snow White, to how Anna and Elsa evolved out of The Snow Queen. It’s a…
2022 Dragon Awards: The Expanse, Dune, Star Wars, and More Take Trophies
The seventh annual Dragon Awards was held at Atlanta’s Dragon Con on Sunday, with another 15 winners being chosen from the ranks of science fiction and fantasy novels, films, TV series, comics, and games. According to official statistics, more than 7,000 fans cast their ballots in the awards, which are decided via an online poll.
2022 Hugo Award Winners Take Us To Other Worlds
Chicago became the host of the 80th World Science Fiction Convention at the start of this month, with the annual Hugo Awards handed out on Sunday. A new round of recipients, voted for by the convention membership, went home with the iconic rocket-shaped trophies to honour their contributions to the previous year’s science fiction and…
2022 Hugo Awards: A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
The sequel to Arkady Martine’s earlier Hugo-winner A Memory Called Empire, this novel returns to the realm of the interplanetary Teixcalaan Empire. A Desolation Called Peace takes place early in the reign of Her Brilliance Nineteen Adze, an emperor, faced with an encroaching threat: humanity is making first contact with aliens – and those aliens…
2022 Hugo Awards: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
In Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, Katrina Nguyen is a young transgender woman who fled her abusive parents and hopes to pursue her passion as a violinist. She meets a woman named Shizuka Satomi, who previously coached six would-be musicians to stardom – only for each one to due young, thereby earning Shizuka…
2022 Hugo Awards: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
China, 1345. A peasant girl from the Zhu family has, between drought and bandits, lost almost all of her relatives: only her brother Zhu Chongba remains. A fortune teller has predicted vastly different fates for the two of them, seeing greatness in the future of the brother – who is due to attend a monastery…