This is another category full of things I liked. There’s some horror, some superhero action, two musicals, animation, space adventure, comedy, originals, adaptations, franchises, all the things! But ultimately top of my list is going …
Hugo Reading: Short Story
Best category so far… a variety of interesting themes and different tones. By far the most difficult to rank for me, except for the top spot. “In My Country” by Thomas Ha has been on …
Hugo Reading: Novelette
Intersting mix of subjects here; kaiju, vampires, magic, and self-aware machines (the old term is too loaded and too intentially muddled by llm-hucksters to be of any use to me now). The machines take the …
Achoo!
Well, this should have been a con report, or more Hugo reading posts, but instead I caught a cold and then maybe another cold, or a sinus infection, or some damned thing and missed out …
Hugo Reading: Novella
This year I’m going to try to be a bit better about my Hugo reading, instead of trying to speedread three novels and the entire short story category on a train to the airport or …
Hugo Finalist!
Belated post about the Hugo announcements, I am on the list for Fan Artist again this year – which is lovely. The other finalists are Sara Felix, Richard Man, Terri Ash, Geneva Bowers, and Yummei. …
Eastercon 2026: Iridescence
(It says last weekend, but I left this in drafts for two weeks, sigh) (Aaaaand I posted an incomplete draft. I’m a hot mess.) Last weekend we headed to the Hilton Birmingham Metropole for Eastercon! …
Dark Flood by Karon Alderman
Last month I was at the Ouseburn Trust waiting to go on their Brewery Tour (which was not as blokey as the photo on their website imples) and a time travel kids book in their …
BEAMISH
My birthday started on Thursday as far as I’m concerned, since it was First Thursday – and a busy one now that the weather is warmer and the daylight lasts past the end of the …
Lunar New Year
February is nearly done, its warmed enough to maybe put away the thermals, and the sun is still out when I close my work laptop at the end of the day. Eastercon is hovering on …