Pop Culture Criticism by Natalie Luhrs
Readercon was pretty great! I enjoyed the panels I attended and the ones I was one were well received. The “Terrible…but Great” panel was a great deal of fun. We talked about Anne Bishop, Mercedes Lackey, Philip K. Dick, Bradley Denton, and many others. Kate Nepveu has a really great write up, if you’d like some of the specific titles. It was also awesome to see everyone and make a few new friends while drinking overpriced gin and tonics in the bar.
Today’s reviews are of Suvi Kauppila’s “Wither and Blossom” and Nin Harris’s “Prosthetic Daughter”. [Read more…] about In Short: Sisters and Memory
Voting for the Hugos closes tomorrow!
Deciding how to rank a lot of really stellar work has been really challenging, but this is a good problem to have. I would much rather have this problem than the one we had the past few years.
Here’s a all my posts about the fiction finalists–just in case you’re still tinkering with your ballot. I keep making changes to my to my ballot and the order in which I reviewed items or listed them here is in no way indicative of how I am voting. With a handful of notable exceptions, I would be thrilled if any of these finalists won. It’s a great ballot.
Hello people! Like every July for the last few years, I will be at Readercon. I am arriving this afternoon and leaving Sunday around lunchtime. If I’m in the lobby or bar or other place that is not super-awkward for a conversation and you would like to say hello, please do! I like meeting new people but am often shy about introducing myself. [Read more…] about Readercon 28 Schedule
Here we are, the Tuesday before Hugo voting closes and it’s time for the last two fiction reviews–Ada Palmer’s Too Like the Lightning and Cixin Liu’s Death’s End.
I have a confession to make: I haven’t read either in their entirety. In part because I’ve run out of time and in part because I simply didn’t care for either of them enough to make the effort to finish (also they’re both really long and I felt my time was better spent on the short fiction–there are fewer reviews of short fiction out there).
So instead pretending like I’ve read both book in their entirely and writing what would amount to a passel of lies, what follows is a brief summary of my impressions based on the what I did manage to read along with links to other reviews for a more complete picture of each book’s critical reception.
This entire series of reviews took a lot of time and effort. If you enjoyed these posts, please consider buying me a cup of coffee (the blog is coffee-powered, as am I).
