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Here’s an update to this list. I haven’t yet read any fantasy novels published in 2024. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2023 Travis Baldree Bookshops & Bonedust James Morrow Behold the Ape 2022 Naomi Novik The Golden Enclaves Travis Baldree Legends & Lattes Robert Jackson Bennett […]
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner is Naomi Novik for A Deadly Education and its sequels, otherwise known as the Scholomance trilogy. Runner ups are Naomi Kritzer for Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories, Laura J. Mixon for Up Against It, Roger MacBride Allen for Caliban and its sequels, and Mickey Zucker […]
{5/5} “Why we go I cannot say. What the impelling force is that makes explorers, I cannot describe. And as long as there is any mystery on this globe it is not only man’s right but his duty to try to unravel it.” Endurance, aired in 2024 During Ernest Shackleton’s third expedition to Antarctica in […]
{5/5} “You know what they say about black cats. If they cross your path, they’re probably going someplace else.” Fly Me to the Moon, released in 2024 In 1968 NASA is having trouble because people’s enthusiasm for going to the moon is waning. Kelly is an expert at selling things so Moe, who works for […]
{4.5/5} “We never should have taken from them… Never ruined their minds and used them. We could have renounced the M’hir and Power; been happy as we were. Greed took us down a path with only one ending. You — were inevitable.” This Gulf of Time and Stars by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2015 […]
TED Talks are 10 – 15 minute talks in which a knowledgeable person provides unique information about a topic. David Finnigan talks about what happened when he tried to mount his play “Kill Climate Deniers.” He usefully asks, “If you believe something but you act like you don’t believe it, do you really believe it?” […]
{4.5/5} “Pathfinder Two enjoyed its communication with those voices, though it found them too slow and too limited to be considered a phenomenon of real intelligence. All of life was a game and the voices accounted for some of the high points, but that was as far as Two was inclined to take matters, unlike […]
{4.5/5} “I nailed our bail jumper one hundred yards from Mexico… Twenty five hundred bucks. No sack dinners tonight. Tonight we eat like the lower middle class to which we aspire.” Veronica Mars season 1, aired in 2004-5 Veronica goes to school during the day and helps her father out in the evening with his […]
{4.5/5} “We all have these chances to wake up and change the course of our lives.” Nobody Wants This season 1, aired in 2024 Joanne and her sister Morgan have a podcast. Noah is a rabbi. They meet at a party where Joanne assumes that Noah is not the rabbi that the host has told […]
{5/5} “You see, I travel the world looking for great peaches. I’m… I’m part of a peach club.” A Man on the Inside (season 1), aired in 2024 Charles is retired and his wife has passed away. He sends newspaper clippings that he thinks are interesting to his daughter Emily. She challenges him to find […]