This is my fifth year reading and ranking every finalist for the Hugo Awards for the Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Novelette, and Best Short Story in the previous year of sci-fi and fantasy. I’ve already posted Best Novel, Best Novella, and Best Novelette, so now it’s time to take a look at Best Short Story. I… Continue reading 2025 Hugo Awards Ballot: Best Short Story
This is my fifth year reading and ranking every finalist for the Hugo Awards for the Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Novelette, and Best Short Story in the previous year of sci-fi and fantasy. I’ve already posted Best Novel and Best Novella, and now it’s time to move to Best Novelette. Novelette is often my… Continue reading 2025 Hugo Awards Ballot: Best Novelette
This is my fifth year reading and ranking every finalist for the Hugo Awards for the Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Novelette, and Best Short Story in the previous year of sci-fi and fantasy. After starting with Best Novel last week, it’s time to dive into Best Novella today. Novella is often my least favorite… Continue reading 2025 Hugo Awards Ballot: Best Novella
This is my fifth year reading and ranking every finalist for the Hugo Awards for the Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Novelette, and Best Short Story in the previous year of sci-fi and fantasy. This year, I’ll be starting my ballot write-ups with the Best Novel category. To be honest, I found the shortlist a… Continue reading 2025 Hugo Awards Ballot: Best Novel
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the author in exchange for an honest review. Uncertain Sons and Other Stories will be released on September 16, 2025. I’ve been reading Thomas Ha’s work for about four years now, and even though his most natural genre (weird horror) is one I… Continue reading Sci-fi/Horror Short Fiction Review: Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha
V.E. Schwab has a huge readership, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue was all over the place in 2020, but it passed me by at the time, and didn’t give much thought to circling back until it was picked up by my in-person book club this year. My online friends had wildly disparate responses,… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
T. Kingfisher is having a moment in genre fandom. Two consecutive Hugo Award wins have given her honors in five separate categories, and she’s made the shortlist in two categories in 2025. I’ve already reviewed the Best Novel finalist A Sorceress Comes to Call, and today I’ll be looking at Best Novella finalist What Feasts… Continue reading Horror Novella Review: What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
We’ve reached the finals of the fourth annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC4), and the three finalists chosen on my team’s side of the bracket have been joined by three more from the other side. Over the course of the summer, we’ll be reading and scoring these three books that came with such glowing recommendations… Continue reading Sci-fi Novel Review: Whiskey and Warfare by E.M. Hamill
June was a little bit of a chaotic reading month–I read a big variety of different lengths, intended audiences, and a couple things that weren’t exactly books, per se. Guess what? I have lots of recommendations, including new favorites of the year in several categories. Let’s dive in! Short Fiction I’ve already reviewed Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus, where I… Continue reading June 2025 Round-up and Short Fiction Miscellany
T. Kingfisher has been popular for a while, but her popularity has grown immensely in the last two years, where her Hugo wins for Best Novella and Best Novel has made her just the fourth person ever (and second named Ursula) to win Hugos in the Novel, Novella, Novelette, and Short Story categories. She also… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
