This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The Incandescent will be released on May 13, 2025. I’ve picked up Emily Tesh twice before in my attempts to cover as much Hugo-nominated fiction as possible since becoming a voter in 2021. In… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
I’ve read a handful of Sofia Samatar’s short fictions, and while they seem to be highly praised in the genre community, none to this point had really stuck with me. So it was with some apprehension that I approached my first of her novellas, the Hugo finalist The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain. But… Continue reading Sci-fi/Fantasy Novella Review: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
I’d missed The Annual Migration of Clouds when it came out, but after really enjoying Premee Mohamed’s The Butcher of the Forest and seeing the 2024 release of Clouds sequel We Speak Through the Mountain, I thought it was worth circling back and reading the pair together. We Speak Through the Mountain is a direct… Continue reading Sci-fi Novella Review: The Annual Migration of Clouds and We Speak Through the Mountain by Premee Mohamed
Metal From Heaven by august clarke burst onto the scene late in 2024 and seemed to be in everyone’s mouth by the time Best of the Year lists started rolling around. That said, I’m pretty far outside the intended audience, and the blurb didn’t make it sound like something I’d especially enjoy, so I initially… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke
The fourth annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC4) has advanced to the semifinals, where my team’s two semifinalists will join four others in one of the competition’s two semifinal groups, each of which will be read by multiple judging teams in order to select a top three to advance to the finals. For my second read of the stage, I… Continue reading Sci-fi Book Review: Proliferation by Erik A. Otto
The fourth annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC4) has advanced to the semifinals, where my team’s two semifinalists will join four others in one of the competition’s two semifinal groups, each of which will be read by multiple judging teams in order to select a top three to advance to the finals. And my first… Continue reading Sci-fi Novel Review: On Impulse by Heather Texle
With WorldCon and NetGalley memberships pushing my reading more and more toward new releases, I knew that the Published in the 90s square of 2024 r/Fantasy Bingo would require me to reshuffle the TBR. Fortunately, I had plenty of options sitting on my bookcase unread, I just had to pick one. And that one was… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman
Ancillary Justice got a ton of hype upon its release in 2013, racking up a dizzying number of genre awards and garnering praise for its inventive handling of gender and nonhuman intelligence, in addition to being an excellent space opera. But I was on hiatus from genre reading in 2013, and so while I’d been… Continue reading Sci-fi Book Review: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Saint Death’s Herald will be released on April 22, 2025. Saint Death’s Daughter was my favorite novel of 2022, so there was really no question about whether I’d read the sequel. The only question… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: Saint Death’s Herald by C.S.E. Cooney
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Where the Axe is Buried was released on April 1, 2025. I started reading Ray Nayler a couple years ago, and I’ve been consistently impressed with his quiet explorations of how big political and… Continue reading Sci-fi Novel Review: Where the Axe is Buried by Ray Nayler
