Look, we’ve all been there. You started out the New Year on a high note. You told yourself you were going to learn a new instrument, become a baking aficionado, and run a marathon all before the year was through. You also told yourself you were going to read twice as many books as you […]
N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy is about the end of history. At the 2018 Hugo Awards, presented last night at WorldCon 76 in San Jose, California, she made history. “I am on this stage accepting this award for pretty much the same reason as every previous Hugo winner,” Jemisin said. “Because I worked my ass […]
If the literary novella remains a curiosity, the form remains a mainstay of science fiction and fantasy—and more people seem to be reading them than ever. But what’s a novella anyway? This year’s winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards in the novella category is All Systems Red by Martha Wells, a hugely entertaining […]
In an interview last month with the B&N Podcast, Hugo-winning author John Scalzi posited that we are currently in a new Golden Age of science fiction and fantasy, and it’s hard to disagree with him. Never before within the genres have their been so many excellent books on offer to so many different types of […]
Earlier this year I wrote a post about how artificial intelligences might develop a personality. And once you are a person (biological, artificial, or some combination of the two), theoretically you are entitled to have your own life—and you can chose to keep at least part of that life private. Five recent books that explore […]
