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Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2018 Matt Haig How to Stop Time 2017 James Alan Gardner All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault 2016 Claire North The Sudden Appearance of Hope Will McIntosh Faller 2015 Claire North Touch […]
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner this year is Becky Chambers for The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Runner ups are Matt Haig for How to Stop Time, Mur Lafferty for Six Wakes, David Marusek for Counting Heads, and David A. Goodman for The Autobiography of James T. Kirk. Year Winner […]
{5/5} “Human, raised by humans.” Elf, released in 2003 Buddy is a human but he was raised by elves — at the North Pole. When he finally discovers his true heritage, he decides to visit New York to visit his father. His father turns out to be a not-so-nice businessman who initially thinks Buddy is […]
{4.5/5} “What’s the point of saving history if we don’t save the people in it?” Timeless: The Miracle of Christmas, aired in 2018 Lucy and Wyatt from the future give the team Lucy’s journal in order to help them rescue Rufus. Lucy, Wyatt, Jiya, and Flynn first take the new time machine back to 1848 […]
{4/5} “A life that’s full of wonder is a wonderful life.” Smallfoot, released in 2018 The yeti live happily on top of the mountain. Until Migo runs into a smallfoot. He tells everyone in the village but the Stonekeeper banishes him because according to the stones the smallfoot don’t exist. Migo then runs into a […]
{5/5} “You know Trump was looking at this whole Flint water poisoning and he’s got to be thinking, ‘Wow, the governor got away with poisoning a majority black city. What will I be able to get away with?’” Fahrenheit 11/9, released in 2018 Michael Moore wants to remind you of horrible things about Donald Trump […]
{4.5/5} “Reluctantly at first, not without anger… but we talked, and after a while we started to listen. And that paved the way for more of us to be willing to talk, and to listen. And both our peoples began to understand that what we hated each other for was far in the past, no […]
{5/5} “I thought I should get all those ideas down while they were in my head.” Proof, released in 2005 Catherine’s father has passed away. He was a mathematical genius who was sick for many years. Hal, who works in the math department that her father worked in, wants to look at her dad’s notebooks […]
{4.5/5} “Home wasn’t usually far from his mind, but on this day of all days — Valentine’s Day marked not only the fourth anniversary of the successful resolution of the Xindi crisis, but also the passage of three years since his ‘death’ aboard Enterprise — he was particularly aware of the immense gulf that separated […]
{4.5/5} “I didn’t know her. I didn’t know my daughter.” Searching, released in 2018 David’s teenage daughter Margot goes missing. He gradually finds out she was not the person he thought she was. She’d stopped taking piano lessons, and she didn’t have any friends. He methodically contacts every acquaintance of hers on her computer and […]