I got to do something really fun earlier today; a double notebook swap! At the start of the week too! It’s always a nice feeling, setting up the books for the next six weeks or so and I thought I’d walk you through it. On the left! My Travellers Notebook. Marguerite and I got our …
Hello everyone! The genre fiction award season has been generous this year, with nominations for both the Hugos and the Ignyte awards. I’m not sure when the Hugo voting materials will be made available, but being a digital content creator who works for free means I can make it available now and to everyone. Please …
Hello nominators, thanks for stopping by. The Full Lid (Unpaid)My free weekly pop culture newsletter, edited by Marguerite KennerWe published 52 issues in 2021 with guest writers including Alex Acks, Kat Day, Margaret Dunlap, Kit Power, David Steffen and Chloë YatesEligible for Best FanzineA zip file of the complete 2021 issues in PDF is available …
Hello Hugo voters! Thanks so much for stopping by. I’m Alasdair Stuart, and I have the great honor of being a Hugo finalist four different categories this year. And since I’m a digital creator with most of their work available for free online, I can do a round-up post like this, pointing you in a …
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Hello award nominators! Thanks for stopping by. I’m Alasdair Stuart and I had a very big year. This post lists it all, including date ranges for episodes and issues along with a few personal favorites. And continuing on from last year, pay or affiliation is also listed. My free weekly pop culture newsletter, edited by …
So I’ve got about six books on my Kindle I’m in the middle of, 100 or so comics on my ipad and another few books too and a number of podcasts so large it crosses a timezone on my phone. This is a year which has reduced everything it hasn’t outright taken with, weirdly, the …
Horizon Zero Dawn is. by some distance, one of the best video games of the century to date. Set after the world has ended and rebuilt, it’s an intensely complex and deeply moving science fiction narrative that, had next year’s Best Game Hugo been rolled out earlier, would have been the game to beat. A …
Editor’s note: spoilers Camp Cretaceous‘ first season arrived on Netflix last week. It’s not only better than you expect, it’s substantially better than the movie it happens just to the left of. The series follows a group of children who are the first to test out Jurassic World’s summer camp. Dairus Bowman (Paul-Mikél Williams) is a …
Editor’s note: This review is intentionally spoiler free. I’ve been thinking a lot about genre recently. Specifically what happens when ignore it, or tell it to sit politely in a corner with a biscuit while we tell stories larger than it. You’ll see that thread in each of the pieces this week. Giga is a story …