Book Review
I’m trying something new this year to take my mind off the horrors: I’m going to read all the 2025 Best Novel Hugo nominees. Probably not in time for the actual awards ceremony, but you never know. How hard can it be to read six books by August…
Book Review
Last week, I reported on P. Djèlí Clark’s Ring Shout and The Haunting of Tram 015, as well as (sigh) Catherynne M. Valente’s Speak Easy. But they are not my only recent fantasy checkouts. Wonders of the Invisible World by Patricia McKillip Another barrier between me and Speak
Book Review
With a newly minted library card in hand, I’m excitedly exploring the stacks of my local with a mind to dare. For the last year or so, I’ve been in a between-residences limbo which denied me the comfort of a local library to call my own. This has
Comics
Every superhero is somebody’s favorite, no matter how weird and esoteric and dumb their costume is. There is someone out there who loves them, usually for a painfully personal reason. Superheroes are a little like patron saints or household gods. Mister Miracle is one of my favorite superheroes. I’
Cinema
As March ends, we reflect on what the first quarter of the year brought us. Obviously, when historians look back on this time, they will think of it as a nightmarish clusterfuck (certainly I will), but they won’t be asking themselves the most important questions: what movies did I
Book Review
Big news in weird decisions by me: I’ve started reading a lengthy novel series by picking up a random installment in the middle. That series is The Vorkosigan Saga, and that installment is Mirror Dance. Now, in my defense, I didn’t go in entirely unprepared. I had previously
Guest Post
A Guest Post by Daisy Lupa Introduction Soon I will graduate with what is essentially a Masters degree in climate change and pollution studies. I graduate into a world filled with climate change, pollution, and people desperately wanting to do something about it, who have been dispossessed of the tools
Television
Back when I had my Cohost blog, I wrote a post about the Babylon 5 episode “Intersections in Real Time”. This is one of my favorite episodes of B5 and, in my opinion, some of B5 creator J. Michael Straczynski’s strongest writing ever. A total format shift and one
Comics
The other day I was watching some of my favorite episodes of the Justice League cartoon. I went straight to the end of season 1 for the the three-part season finale: “The Savage Time”. In “The Savage Time”, the Justice League (sans Batman) arrives home from a space mission to
Cinema
The X-Files is an insanely uneven work. Several episodes of the original run make me feel like I am touching God. Several episodes of the original run make me feel like God is pulling my eyeballs out and beating me about the head and feet with them. I don’t
Book Review
Two questions, to begin with: Do you wish there was more Disco Elysium? And do you wish the original Disco Elysium had contained more tantric sex rituals? If you answered yes to both questions, 1) I never want to meet you, and 2) boy howdy, do I have a book
Comics
I used to really love comic books. I used to really love superhero comics in particular. But somewhere in the avalanche of movies and tie-ins and reboots I got buried and I never dug myself out. Perhaps the massive increase in volume did not correspond to an equally massive increase