Best fantasy & science fiction movies by year

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Here’s an update to this list. Year Winner Runner Ups 2023 Barbie 65   Elemental Asteroid City     Babylon 5: The Road Home     Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget     The Creator     Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves     The Flash     Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. […]

Best tie-in novels by year

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Here’s an update to this list.   Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2023 John Jackson Miller SNW: The High Country     2022         2021 David Mack ST: Coda — Oblivion’s Gate Christopher L. Bennett TOS: Living Memory   Una McCormack The Autobiography of Mr. Spock Cassandra Rose Clarke […]

Best science fiction novels by year

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Here’s an update to this list.   Winner Runner Ups Year Author Title Author Title 2023 John Scalzi Starter Villain     2022 Ren Hutchings Under Fortunate Stars Julie E. Czerneda To Each This World       Mur Lafferty Station Eternity       Emily St. John Mandel Sea of Tranquility       […]

Best fantasy novels by year

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Here’s an update to this list. I haven’t yet read any fantasy novels published in 2023.   Winner   Runner Ups   Year Author Title Author Title 2022 Travis Baldree Legends & Lattes Robert Jackson Bennett Lockland 2021 Claire North Notes from the Burning Age     2020 Alix E. Harrow The Once and Future […]

Author discovery of the year

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Here’s an update to this list. The big winner for the year is Margarita Montimore, for Oona Out of Order. The runner ups are Ren Hutchings for Under Fortunate Stars, Travis Baldree for Legends & Lattes, Alexander Jablokov for Carve the Sky, and Charles Yu for How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. […]

Virga

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Here are the novels in Karl Schroeder’s Virga series. If he writes more, I will read them. Sun of Suns 2006 -> 4.5/5 Queen of Candesce 2007 -> 4.5/5 Pirate Sun 2008 -> 4.5/5 The Sunless Countries 2009 -> 4.5/5 Ashes of Candesce 2012 -> 4.5/5

GalFed

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Most of Phyllis Gotlieb’s novels are set in her Galaxy Federation (GalFed) universe. Here they are. Sven Dahlgren O Master Caliban! 1976 Heart of Red Iron 1989 Starcats A Judgment of Dragons 1980 -> 4.5/5 Emperor, Swords, Pentacles 1982 -> 4.5/5 The Kingdom of the Cats 1985 -> 4.5/5 Lyhhrt Flesh and Gold 1998 -> […]

Shrek

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Here are all the movies that take place in the world of Shrek. Shrek 2001 -> 5/5 Shrek 2 2004 -> 4.5/5 Shrek the Third 2007 -> 4/5 Shrek Forever After 2010 -> 4.5/5 Puss in Boots 2011 -> 4.5/5 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 2022 -> 4.5/5 Shrek 5 2026 Specials Shrek the […]

The Addams Family

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Here are all the movies based on Charles Addams’ comics. Barry Sonnenfeld’s movies The Addams Family 1991 -> 5/5 Addams Family Values 1993 -> 5/5 Straight-to-video movie Addams Family Reunion 1998 -> 2.5/5 Animated movies The Addams Family 2019 -> 4.5/5 The Addams Family 2 2021 -> 4/5

Unique versions of songs, part 3: classical

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Here’s the final list of superb videos, this time showing unique presentations of classical songs. Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Air on the G String” played by 2 cellos 2CELLOS Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” played by one person playing all the parts on cello That Cello Guy Ludwig van Beethoven’s 4th movement from Symphony No. 5 […]