Binti by Nnedi Okorafor My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the 12 in 12 Challenge, the Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge, the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge, and the Space Opera Challenge. Winner of the 2016 Hugo and Nebula awards, nominee for the BSFA, BFA and Locus awards. I always […]
Read More Book Review: Binti by Nnedt OkoraforYou’re a hobbit and you don’t like adventure. You think originality is dangerous! You should NEVER bring a unique setting to fantasy or science fiction! And God help you if you MIX the two! You believe that stories about people and their very human motivations are boring, even if you punctuate them with lots of […]
Read More 10 Reasons Why You *Shouldn’t* Support Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd West!To celebrate my Kickstarter for the Wyrd West Chronicles, I’m doing a series of livestreamed interviews with people who are doing similar stuff to what I’m doing in Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd West! These interviews will appear on Kickstarter Live and will be simultaneously streamed to my Facebook Author Page, then uploaded […]
Read More Interviews for the Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd West “Telethon!”A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge. This was actually the first book in this series I read. It so absorbed me that I sought out the rest of the series wherever I found it. Once again, a […]
Read More Book Review: A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’EngleA Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge and the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge. I read this book as a child (obviously I don’t remember what day, but I’m guessing based on the age I was and […]
Read More Book Review: A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’EngleA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge and the Space Opera Challenge. I last read this book when I was still a child. I was prompted to a re-read because of the release of the movie, so I could compare and […]
Read More Book Review: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’EngleOriginally posted on The Toy Soldier Saga:
By Django Wexler I am, I have to admit, a war buff. I read military histories for fun, the kind with fold-out maps covered in little colored arrows and notations like “Kollowrath (40,000)”. As I am also a fantasy novelist, the nature of war in fantasy fiction has…
Beasts of Tabat by Cat Rambo My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge. I read this book in part because I’ve come to know Cat Rambo through my work with the SFWA YouTube channel (for those who don’t know, she’s the current President of SFWA.) I heard she […]
Read More Book Review: Beasts of Tabat by Cat Rambo
