you’re my audience
vonnegut’s open window
make love to the world
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My review: The Everlasting, by Alix E. Harrow
Another last-minute review of a book I read months ago. Another attempt to put my thoughts in order before voting. Every evidence of procrastination and incomplete work is another chance to grow? Anyway, I really enjoyed this book. It does fall heavily into the “war is war” category of books that give me some kind…
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My review: Shroud, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
I read this on ebook back in like May 2026 but never wrote a review and now I’m panicking and trying to organize my thoughts before voting in the 2026 Hugo Awards. This is a great sci-fi story with a classic feel. An alien planet so weird that it has to be explored. An alien…
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My review: Tender Is the Flesh, by Agustina Bazterrica
I read this in paperback on 26 July 2026. I grabbed this book and every other one mentioned in the New York Times article about cannibalism as a publishing trend. I’m a sucker for a theme, and especially for this theme. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/books/cannibalism-fiction.html Look, I grew up on Rocky Horror, and Meatloaf is a rather tender…
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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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