I was a kid when I watched the Flash Gordon movie that was released in 1980, and all I remember of it was being distinctly unimpressed. So it was an absolute delight for me to go through the pages of this book and discover how charming the property could be in the hands of two …
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Jan 13 2025
Ultramega Vol 1 by James Harren & Dave Stewart
w Russ Wootton on letters. Okay, so about forty pages or so in, I was like, “Wait, is this an interpretation of Ultraman?!” Or a reboot or a retelling or what have you: I’m not familiar enough with the Ultraman property to say. So the very first thing I did after finishing this shocking and …
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Dec 21 2024
Hugo Awards 2024: Wrapping Up
When I read for the Hugos, I like to write a full review for each novel and novella that I finish, but I also like to finish all of my reviews from a given calendar year by the end of that year, and so here I am. There’s not a whole lot of December left, …
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Dec 05 2024
Orchard Of The Tame by Marlo Meekins & Nick Cross
I go into lots of books blind nowadays, so I definitely wasn’t prepared for how powerful this book about surviving trauma and abuse would be. I was definitely lulled into a false sense of security by Nick Cross’ art, which deliberately hearkens back to animations of the early to mid 20th century, but that — …
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Dec 04 2024
Gastronogeek Cult TV Cookbook by Thibaud Villanova & Mathilde Bourge
containing recipes inspired by 37 cult TV series. If you’ve ever wanted to try out the recipes featured in your favorite TV shows but are a little leery of unnecessarily complicated instructions, then this is definitely the cookbook for you! Taking cues from over thirty different fantasy/sci-fi/horror/nerdy series (and Breaking Bad, which I guess fulfils …
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Oct 14 2024
Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold
After two Vorkosigan books that are outliers in the larger series — Shards of Honor because it was the first; Ethan of Athos because it’s about an unusual planet — Brothers in Arms returns to what I think of as the main sequence of the saga: books about the life of Miles Vorkosigan. Brothers in …
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Oct 13 2024
The Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin
What’s the difference between a very long online discussion and a labyrinth? What if the thread is started by someone called Ariadne? “I shall construct a labyrinth in which I can lose myself, together with anyone who tries to find me — who said this and about what?” (p. 1) What if the participants all say …
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Sep 30 2024
UFO Mushroom Invasion by Shirakawa Marina
translated and edited by historian Ryan Holmberg as part of Smudge, “a line of vintage horror, occult, and dark fantasy manga”. Honestly, this was rad and creepy all at once. The original manga was published in 1976, and has been translated and repackaged here for English-speaking audiences, with illuminating essays and notes to boot. Shirakawa …
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Sep 28 2024
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
One of the things that science fiction writers have learned how to do in the 206 years since Frankenstein was first published is how to bring their readers along with the new elements of the world that they put into their stories. Most of the time, they take care to make the fantastic elements plausible …
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