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Here’s an update to this list. Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2021 Claire North Notes from the Burning Age 2020 Matt Haig The Midnight Library Robert Jackson Bennett Shorefall Jo Walton Or What You Will 2019 Jo Walton Lent Melissa Caruso The Unbound Empire […]
Here’s an update to this list. I read a bunch of new authors this year. The big winner is Cixin Liu for The Three-Body Problem and its sequels. Runner ups are Dave Duncan for West of January, Melissa Caruso for The Tethered Mage and its sequels, Cory Doctorow for Down and Out in the Magic […]
{4.5/5} “‘The cities are a relic of the past.’ The program has said it over and over. ‘A buried past, Elisa, a disastrous past. The humans now living don’t need them. They have the right to live their own lives, to decide their own fate. Some legacies can be crushing.’” The Silent City by Elisabeth […]
{4.5/5} “Milena sat on the bus in her boiled gloves and saw a nervous light in the eyes of the actors, a fervour for accomplishments completed in youth. She saw the unfailing smiles of people in the markets, and the smiles seemed to be symptoms of disease. It seemed to Milena that nearly everything she […]
This is the talk/late show edition of this list. These are some shows that I haven’t necessarily seen full episodes of, but I’ve seen lots of clips from. The previous iteration of this list is here. The Amber Ruffin Show Amber Ruffin, who also works on Late Night with Seth Meyers, gives her unique perspective […]
{4/5} “Vamps are dead already, remember? So where do the dead go when they die? There’s a stumper. All I know is there are no dead vampires in the ghost world. My opinion? This is their afterlife.” Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong, published in 2004 Paige Winterbourne builds web sites for people — she’s also […]
{4.5/5} “I knew what he was doing, distracting me with one of our old fights, but I couldn’t resist the bait, and as I marshaled my arguments, it actually helped calm me down some. Dan was that kind of friend, a person who knew you better than you knew yourself. ‘So you’re saying that if […]
{5/5} “Half the time when you see someone with the wrong amount of pips around here it’s usually just delicious street corn.” Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2, aired in 2021 Mariner and the captain, her mother, are getting a bit tired of working so closely together. Tendi thinks Rutherford has a problem in his […]
Here are some TV shows I’ve watched lately, game show edition. Watching old Password shows led me to some other game shows, some of which I hadn’t heard of before. Aside from Jeopardy! and Family Feud these are shows from the 70s and 80s. The previous iteration of this list is here. The $10,000 Pyramid […]
{4.5/5} “Broodkenning was an essential part of Tinish civilization, a cross between marriage counsellor, animal breeder, and reconstructive surgeon… It took real skill to properly recommend which puppies should go with which packs or whether a whole new pack should be made. It took ever greater talent to create well-functioning packs from adult singletons and […]