Continuing WWAC’s coverage of the 2022 Hugo Awards, here are reviews of two more Best Novella finalists: The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente and Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire…
2022 Hugo Awards: A Spindle Splintered/Elder Race
Having covered the Best Short Story and Best Novelette categories, WWAC’s review series on the 2022 Hugo Award finalists now reaches Best Novella. This post shall discuss two of the six contenders: Alix E. Harrow’s A Spindle Splintered and Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Elder Race…
2022 Hugo Awards: Colors of the Immortal Palette/Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.
WWAC’s coverage of the 2022 Hugo Awards continues with reviews of two more Best Novelette finalists: “Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim and “Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.” by Fran Wilde…
2022 Hugo Awards: That Story isn’t the Story/Bots of the Lost Ark
Welcome back to WWAC’s coverage of the 2022 Hugo Award finalists. Having reviewed the six finalists competing for Best Short Story we now move on to the Best Novelette category, starting with “That Story isn’t the Story” by John Wiswell and “Bots of the Lost Ark” by Suzanne Palmer…
2022 Hugo Awards: Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather/Unknown Number
Our coverage of the 2022 Hugo Awards continues with a look at the final two contenders for Best Short Story: “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker and “Unknown Number” by Blue Neustifter.
2022 Hugo Award Reviews: Tangles/The Sin of America
Welcome to the second part of WWAC’s 2022 Hugo Award review series. This instalment shall be covering two more Best Short Story finalists: Seanan McGuire’s “Tangles” and Catherynne M. Valente’s “The Sin of America”…
REVIEW: I Didn’t Know Fantasy Like The Bruising of Qilwa Could Exist and I’m Glad it Does!
Firuz’s family has escaped the slaughter of their people, the Sassanians, arriving at Qilwa as refugees seeking a new way of life. While Firuz dedicates themself to saving people at a free clinic, a new disease emerges with powerful political ramifications for Firuz’s people and their new home.
2021 Hugo Awards Celebrate Imagination, Wonder, and an Arms Manufacturer
On Saturday the Hugo Awards were presented at DisCon III, the 2021 iteration of the international science fiction and fantasy convention Worldcon. A new set of winners were selected for genre immortality by a voting base of Worldcon members — and another round of debate raged on social media. Martha Wells’ much-loved Murderbot Diaries series,…
2021 Hugo Award Review: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Young necromancer Harrowhark, the secondary lead in Tamsyn Muir’s earlier novel Gideon the Ninth, now has the rank of Lyctor. This role involves travelling with an interplanetary God-Emperor between worlds and using her abilities as a necromancer to navigate the various hazards thrown in her way. After all, this is a universe where vast monsters…
2021 Hugo Award Review: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
A man inhabits a vast building containing reams of hallways and innumerable statues depicting various mythological figures. His sole companion is a man he refers to as the Other; in return, the Other refers to him as Piranesi. This bewilders him, as he does not identify with that name — at least, not until he…
2021 Hugo Award Review: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Black Sun’s prologue introduces us to Serapio, a boy who is groomed by his mother to become the avatar of a Crow God — a process that entails being ritually blinded. All of this is to prepare him for a specific date in the future: the day of Convergence, when the sun shall turn black…
2021 Hugo Award Reviews: The Empress of Salt and Fortune/Riot Baby
WWAC’s coverage of the 2021 Hugo Award finalists continues with a look at the final two contenders for Best Novella: Tochi Onyebuchi’s Riot Baby and Nghi Vo’s The Empress of Salt and Fortune…