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Here’s an update to this list. It still only includes books I reviewed on my blog (ie. ones I’ve read in the last 9 years). Best of the best Dragon and Phoenix by Joanne Bertin Replay by Ken Grimwood How to Stop Time by Matt Haig Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay Lord of […]
Here’s an update to this list. Best of the best Batman: The Dark Knight Returns – Frank Miller Battlestar Galactica: Complete Omnibus V.1 – Greg Pak Serenity: No Power in the ‘Verse – Chris Roberson Wonder Woman by Greg Rucka Volume 3 – Greg Rucka The Amazing Spider-man (starting with Coming Home) – J. Michael […]
Here’s an update to this list. 2020 was a bad year for many things, including the number of fantasy and science fiction movies released. Hopefully we’ll see more this year, if they can be made safely. Year Winner Runner Ups 2020 Palm Springs Bill & Ted Face the Music The Willoughbys 2019 Avengers: […]
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2020 Una McCormack PICARD: The Last Best Hope 2019 David Mack TNG: Collateral Damage Greg Cox TOS: The Antares Maelstrom Dave Galanter DISCO: Dead Endless Una McCormack DISCO: The Way to the […]
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2020 John Scalzi The Last Emperox Marina J. Lostetter Noumenon Ultra Robert J. Sawyer The Oppenheimer Alternative 2019 Karl Schroeder Stealing Worlds Sue Burke Interference Adrian Tchaikovsky Children of Ruin 2018 Sue Burke Semiosis […]
Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2020 Robert Jackson Bennett Shorefall 2019 Claire North The Pursuit of William Abbey 2018 Matt Haig How to Stop Time Robert Jackson Bennett Foundryside Kate Morton The Clockmaker’s Daughter 2017 Neal […]
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner this year is Sue Burke for Semiosis. Runner ups are Dennis E. Taylor for We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone for This Is How You Lose the Time War, and John Gregory Betancourt for Star Trek: TNG — Double Helix: Infection. […]
{5/5} “There are three things to remember about being a starship captain: keep your shirt tucked in, go down with the ship… and never abandon a member of your crew.” Star Trek: Voyager season 5, aired in 1998-99 When Seven and the Doctor beam back from a nebula, Borg nanoprobes create a new drone who […]
{5/5} “They didn’t execute out-of-favour civil servants in the Twelfth Dynasty of Kitai under the Emperor Wenzong. That, he thought wryly, would have been barbaric, and theirs was an emperor of exquisite cultivation. They just sent members of the disgraced faction away, sometimes so far that their ghosts couldn’t even return to threaten anyone.” River […]
{4.5/5} “Grandle jumped off the counter into the fracas, landing between two furious shoppers who were doing their best to batter each other senseless. She shoved them apart, trying to keep them at arm’s length from each other. Her fierce expression would have done an ancient Greek Fury proud. ‘Get a hold of yourselves! What […]