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Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2025 Travis Baldree Brigands & Breadknives 2024 Matt Haig The Life Impossible 2023 Alix E. Harrow Starling House Travis Baldree Bookshops & Bonedust James Morrow Behold the Ape 2022 Naomi Novik […]
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner is Martha Wells for The Murderbot Diaries. Runner ups are Beth Revi for Chaotic Orbits, Joe Hart for Obscura, Nina Kiriki Hoffman for Star Trek: Voyager — Echoes, and Michael Schuster and Steve Mollmann for Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes. Further runner ups are Ryan North […]
{4.5/5} “‘This is a dear friend of my family, Alistair Banister. And before anyone asks, yes, Banister of the handrails fortune.’ ‘Well, it’s nice to meet you. Thank you for helping me stay on the stairs.’” Not Dead Yet season 1, aired in 2023 Nell has been away in England for 5 years with her […]
{5/5} “Keru wished that he and Torvig had access to Titan’s main computer and sensor module. He asked, ‘If the planet wasn’t covered up, how detectable would those particles be?’ ‘To anyone with the ability to scan that frequency, they would be the brightest energy source in the galaxy.’” Star Trek Destiny: Lost Souls by […]
{4.5/5} “‘I like this idea, but are people still doing reboots?’ ‘Let’s see, Fuller House, Saved by the Bell, iCarly, Gilmore Girls, Gossip Girl.’ ‘Party of Five, Party Down, One Day at a Time.’ ‘Boy Meets World, How I Met Your Father, The Wonder Years.’ ‘Battlestar Galactica.’ ‘Doogie Houser, The Odd Couple, Perry Mason, Hawaii […]
{4.5/5} “Shostakova slammed her palms flat on the tabletop. ‘I don’t care, Seven,’ she said. ‘Thalaron weapons are an abomination, which is why we signed a treaty outlawing them. The Federation won’t endorse the use of genocidal tactics.’ ‘Then I cannot help you,’ Seven said, ‘because the Borg have no such reservations — and they […]
{4.5/5} “Transphasic warheads were quickly proving to be the best defense against the renewed Borg onslaught. The admiralty, however, remained concerned that the Borg would eventually adapt to this seemingly unstoppable weapon, thereby robbing Starfleet of its last effective defense. Consequently, the Enterprise was the only ship in Starfleet that was armed with the warheads. […]
{5/5} “Atonement can take many forms: a heartfelt apology, a grand gesture, a silent prayer, or something more complex, more grey, more difficult to decipher. And while it’s true that no amount of atonement can ever change the past, it does have the power to heal us, to restore relationships and connections we thought were […]
{4.5/5} “Sarek pulled up a chair beside the bed. Spock started to do the same, when he suddenly realized — ‘Doctor, I must be isolated. You saw the reports from Nisus. IU have both Vulcan and Human blood: even now, my body may be spawning some even deadlier form of the disease, one that could […]
{4.5/5} “The Enterprise was traveling at warp speed, while he was stranded in a strange city on a foreign planet in an alien body. It was a wonder he hadn’t lost his mind as well. The Kobayashi Maru scenario seemed a piece of cake by comparison. He took a deep breath. The odds were against […]