2014 Hugo Nominees for Best Novel announced

The nominees for the 2014 Hugo for Best Novel are: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. Neptune’s Brood (set in the same universe as Saturn’s Children) by Charles Stross. Parasite by Mira Grant Warbound, Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles (Follows Hard Magic and Spellbound) by Larry Correia. The Wheel of Time (14 book series starting with The Eye of the […]

PKD Smackdown Book Bracket Round 3: Championship Match!

Ancillary Justice vs The Mad Scientist’s Daughter It’s time for the highly-anticipated showdown between the two surviving 2013 PKD nominees! Two strong intelligences face off today, and with both books having a good working knowledge of AI, it’s a toss up how this match will go. Employing the thousands of years of military knowledge gained […]

PKD Smackdown Book Bracket Round 2

After the excitement of round 1 of the PKD Smackdown, the books that survived return for the semi-finals: Round 2! Ancillary Justice versus Countdown City Using the same tactics that won the match in Round 1, Countdown City uses the momentum gained by being a sequel to try to get ahead, but this  time, the strength of […]

PKD Smackdown Book Bracket Round 1

We’ve seeded the seven 2013 Philip K Dick award nominees into a single elimination bracket based on a weighted average of the star ratings of GeekyLibrary, Amazon, and Goodreads. Let the battle of the books begin! Ancillary Justice gets a bye In this 7-book, single elimination competition our top seeded book gets a bye and […]

A matter of perspective (and a PKD Nominee update)

Okay geeky readers, I have something important to say. When reading a book, it is always better to feel like this person: Than this person: In the disney-fueled world of my childhood, I’ve always identified with Belle’s love of books, and despised Gaston for his ignorance. That being said, the recent Philip K. Dick award […]

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Philip K. Dick Award Nominees (2013) are here!

It’s that time of year again! The nominees for the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award were announced on January 10th, and once again, the GeekyLibrary crew plans to read all seven of the nominees and discuss them. There are plenty of good books published in 2013 that were eligible for this award. Since 1984, Norwescon […]

Totally Geeky Book for the Win!

The 2013 Hugo Awards were presented on September 2nd, and although the live feed went a bit wonky, I was mostly able to follow the ceremony online. Of course, the award we were waiting to hear about was the Hugo Award for Best Novel. In preparation, we read and reviewed as many of the nominees […]

The (2013) Hugo Awards are coming!

The GeekyLibrary Crew enjoy the Hugo Awards, if only for bringing to our attention so many great sci-fi and fantasy novels. Although we don’t always agree with the winners (one past winner only received 2 stars…) most of the time they bring amazing books to our attention. In addition to trying to review past Hugo […]