Book Reviews
and News for Geeks Like Us
An analysis and review of the 2015 Hugo Awards finalists for Best Novella— Big Boys Don’t Cry, “Flow,” One Bright Star to Guide Them, “Pale Realms of Shade” and “The Plural of Helen of Troy”— and my top pick from the selection of nominees.
An analysis and review of the 2015 Hugo Awards finalists for Best Graphic Story and my top pick from the selection of nominees.
An analysis and review of the 2015 Hugo Awards finalists for Best Novelette and my top pick from the selection of nominees.
As geeks, we’re always excited by space missions. But for book geeks, this one is better than usual for a few reasons.
An analysis and review of the 2015 Hugo Awards finalists for Best Short Story and my top pick from the selection of nominees.
Wesley Chu, author of the amazing geeky book The Lives of Tao, is currently on tour promoting his newest book, The Time Salvager. Luckily for us, one of his stops was in Portland.
In anticipation of the voting deadline, I’m getting ready to write about the finalists in various categories. At some point, it was inevitable that I’d need to address the controversy arising from the slate-driven nominations.
Climate change is real. War is real. Poverty is real. The over saturation of the speculative fiction genre with dystopian themes is real. But can we still be optimistic about the future?
As California continues to struggle with their worst drought on record, Paolo Bacigalupi’s newest book The Water Knife looks increasingly prescient.
Winner of giveaway can pick one of five amazing geeky books, all signed by the author.
Some people have trouble reading paragraphs. I had trouble ‘reading’ images.
A trip to the Library of Congress was amazing— Here are my top three favorite things I saw!