Book Review
There are a lot of valid critiques of Western gender norms and the ideologies which venerate binarism and “traditional” sex roles. Many have taken to science fiction to air these critiques in various formats and frames. What Benjamin Rosenbaum asks with his book The Unraveling, is what if you had
Book Review
Because there are many SFF novellas at the library. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells Par for the course for me, I pulled down a random Murderbot book from the library shelf and started reading the series there. My goal was to prepare myself for the upcoming AppleTV+ series. You might
Book Review
Last year I read Jo Walton’s Among Others, a lovely book about a Welsh teen’s magical coming-of-age in the wake of her twin sister’s death. I thought that book was quietly bold, so I looked into Walton’s other work and marked My Real Children for priority
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