This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The Mountain in the Sea will be released on October 4, 2022. A couple months back, when I saw Ray Nayler’s debut novel pop up on NetGalley, the “philosophical thriller about the nature of consciousness”… Continue reading Sci-fi Novel Review: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
I posted the first edition of my 2022 Recommended Reading List back in early December. But then everyone else posted their own lists, and there’s no better way to blow up a favorites list than spending a couple months reading everyone else’s favorites. There was a lot of amazing sci-fi and fantasy published in 2022,… Continue reading Tarvolon’s 2022 Recommended Reading List: Award Season Edition
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
It’s my favorite part of the reading year: r/Fantasy Bingo is back! For those who aren’t familiar, Bingo is an annual challenge that runs from April 1 until March 31 of the following year. Five in a row (or column, or diagonal) is the traditional bingo, but the most popular way to play r/Fantasy Bingo… Continue reading Planning 2024 Fantasy Bingo
r/Fantasy’s Book Bingo is back, and with it comes my favorite period on the reading calendar: the massive influx of recommendations and churning of the TBR that comes from a new Bingo card with 25 different categories to satisfy. Filling out a card requires reading–between now and March 31, 2024–25 books by 25 different authors,… Continue reading Planning 2023 Fantasy Bingo
My favorite reading challenge is winding down, and for the third consecutive year, I have completed a pair of Bingo cards. I’ll talk more about my themed card in a while (probably after April 1), but today, we’re looking at my first totally unplanned Bingo card. Sure, I went through the recommendation threads last… Continue reading 2022 Fantasy Bingo Card
It’s been a good year of reading, and I have already amassed quite a few favorites–more than enough to throw my hat into the ring with another entry in “Best of the Year” season. But with so many annual favorites posts reshuffling the TBR, I recognize that today’s post is far from final. There will… Continue reading Tarvolon’s 2022 Recommended Reading List: Holiday Edition
I’ve been blogging for nearly two years now, but I’m still changing up how I handle short fiction reviews, given that I’ll sometimes read individual stories as they catch my eye and sometimes read anthologies straight through. This month, I’ve decided to experiment with reading some web magazines straight through, while leaving space for picking… Continue reading September 2022 Round-up and Short Fiction Focus
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
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
