you’re my audience
vonnegut’s open window
make love to the world
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My review: The Incandescent, by Emily Tesh
I read this (epub) on 15 May 2026. This novel is up for a 2026 Hugo Award. If you become a voting member, you can download the voters packet and read it yourself. Magic-school stories, which I suppose are a subset of boarding-school stories, are not my jam. Not anymore. I was a Harry Potter kid. Like,…
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My review: Death of the Author, by Nnedi Okorafor
This novella is up for a 2026 Hugo Award. If you become a voting member, you can download the voters packet and read it yourself. I first read this book in spring 2025, co-reading with one of my partners. This was the only book on the Hugo Novel finalists list that I had previously read. I saw…
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My review: What Stalks the Deep, by T. Kingfisher
I read this (epub) on 14 May 2026. This novella is up for a 2026 Hugo Award. If you become a voting member, you can download the voters packet and read it yourself. I think this one takes my vote (sorry to Cinder House and Automatic Noodle, which also got this endorsement in their reviews). Honestly, I’ll…
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My review: The Raven Scholar, by Antonia Hodgson
I read this (epub) on 14 May 2026. This novel is up for a 2026 Hugo Award. If you become a voting member, you can download the voters packet and read it yourself. I really enjoyed this one, despite all the things I didn’t like. Stories about formal factions are fine but so often overdone. This one…
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My review: The River has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar
I read this (epub) on 12 and 13 May 2026. This novella is up for a 2026 Hugo Award. If you become a voting member, you can download the voters packet and read it yourself. I don’t like fairy tales. Funny, that I just said that in another review. It’s still an imperfect and inexact statement. Much…
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My review: The Summer War, by Naomi Novik
I read this (pdf) in two sittings on 12 May 2026. This novella is up for a 2026 Hugo Award. If you become a voting member, you can download the voters packet and read it yourself. I don’t like fairy tales. Okay, that’s a vast overstatement that relies on an overgeneralization. That’s not fair. I really like…
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My review: Cinder House, by Freya Marske
I read this (epub) in two or three sittings on 12 May 2026. This novella is up for a 2026 Hugo Award. If you become a voting member, you can download the voters packet and read it yourself. Fairy tale retellings, especially the ones Disney has already done, are always a bit of a miss for me.…
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Potential Energy – XKCD
There is a concept in life that I find to be utterly underutilized and whenever it is represented in fiction (or XKCD) I am always inordinately excited. Mechanical systems can rely on many systems for power, but as this comic alludes, we generally use electricity or combustion-generated torque to make something move. Our whole modern…
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My review of: Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz
I read this (epub) in two sittings on 11 May 2026. This novella is up for a 2026 Hugo Award. If you become a voting member, you can download the voters packet and read it yourself. The truest sign of a book I love is my desire to share it with other people. Sometimes this can be…
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My review of: Murder by Memory, by Olivia Waite
I read this (epub) in one sitting on 12 May 2026. This novella is up for a 2026 Hugo Award. If you become a voting member, you can download the voters packet and read it yourself. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and immediately wanted to send copies to other people who I thought would also…
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