Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, screenplay by John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein and Michael Gilio, directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Paramount Pictures)
Raising a Kraken is a perfectly safe idea! No downsides! I feel like I read more of the short stories but maybe I just downloaded the Hugo packet and didn't get through them... Gonna have to dig...
Raising a Kraken is a perfectly safe idea! No downsides!
I feel like I read more of the short stories but maybe I just downloaded the Hugo packet and didn't get through them... Gonna have to dig it back up.
The kracken story was quite satisfying, like an old episode of Outer Limits There's a packet for download? If you happen upon the link again I'd appreciate it :)
The kracken story was quite satisfying, like an old episode of Outer Limits
There's a packet for download? If you happen upon the link again I'd appreciate it :)
I joined the WSFS for the year which generally includes a voters packet. For about 50 bucks you get copies of most of the written work and some of the audio/video stuff (this year there was a...
I joined the WSFS for the year which generally includes a voters packet. For about 50 bucks you get copies of most of the written work and some of the audio/video stuff (this year there was a baldur's gate 3 key which I may have forgotten to get. )
Packet is gone by now I believe as it was supposed to go away when the voting closed. So I'm not supposed to share it!
But I found the cost worthwhile! You get to nominate and vote!
The Imperial Radch is a worthy best series winner. Some Desperate Glory was not my favorite on the novel list but was enjoyable. I love Kingfisher but wouldn't have voted for Thornhedge (I didn't...
The Imperial Radch is a worthy best series winner. Some Desperate Glory was not my favorite on the novel list but was enjoyable.
I love Kingfisher but wouldn't have voted for Thornhedge (I didn't get though all the novella noms and despite my membership I didn't vote)
I'd have loved to see the Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi win.
And I do have to appreciate To Shape a Dragon's Breath. It was excellent indigenous fantasy!
Liked it better than Provenance and it focuses less on the Radchaai and the AI ships (though they're present) and more on the Presgr Translators. A lot of body horror and more on the overarching...
Liked it better than Provenance and it focuses less on the Radchaai and the AI ships (though they're present) and more on the Presgr Translators. A lot of body horror and more on the overarching theme of "who/what counts as a person?" And still a bit of "Am I a singular being or not" but not from the AI lens.
Ancillary trilogy
I've gone back through the Ancillary series and enjoyed it more on a second go round as now I'm really wanting to know more about the Presgr. They were mostly the Deus ex Machina providers of the gun and ammo in the original series. In this one Leckie leans into the fact that they are beings who should not be fucked with because when they make a whole ship of people's insides into their outsides they might just have been curious.
I don't remember Provenance now, which I can't say if that's the story or my memory. I'll probably do an Audible listen to it this round through reading them.
I'm so incredibly behind on Sci-fi (it took me forever to stop just re-reading the Hitchhiker saga and the Halo novels over and over) so I'm finally working my way through the GOATs. I'm halfway...
I'm so incredibly behind on Sci-fi (it took me forever to stop just re-reading the Hitchhiker saga and the Halo novels over and over) so I'm finally working my way through the GOATs. I'm halfway through the three body problem series right now and it's great! My first foreign sci-fi book so it's fun seeing the cultural differences in it.
Anything from these awards that stands out as incredible? Or should I keep focusing on catching up on my backlog
I'd recommend The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi The Imperial Radch series (Translation State is the newest and is nominated separately) Starter Villain (it's just fun) And I'm a big fan of October...
I'd recommend
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
The Imperial Radch series (Translation State is the newest and is nominated separately)
Starter Villain (it's just fun)
And I'm a big fan of October Daye by Seanan McGuire. But it's not everyone's cup of tea.
I think most of the novellas, novelettes and short stories are worth looking through. R/fantasy does a read through each year so you can page back through if you're on Reddit.
Read How to Raise A Kraken in your Bathtub - great fun
And then saw this:
:) it was more fun than it had any right to be.
Raising a Kraken is a perfectly safe idea! No downsides!
I feel like I read more of the short stories but maybe I just downloaded the Hugo packet and didn't get through them... Gonna have to dig it back up.
The kracken story was quite satisfying, like an old episode of Outer Limits
There's a packet for download? If you happen upon the link again I'd appreciate it :)
I joined the WSFS for the year which generally includes a voters packet. For about 50 bucks you get copies of most of the written work and some of the audio/video stuff (this year there was a baldur's gate 3 key which I may have forgotten to get. )
Packet is gone by now I believe as it was supposed to go away when the voting closed. So I'm not supposed to share it!
But I found the cost worthwhile! You get to nominate and vote!
Oh that's super cool, but always next year :) it's be good to support the organization anyway even if most of it will go unread.....
The Imperial Radch is a worthy best series winner. Some Desperate Glory was not my favorite on the novel list but was enjoyable.
I love Kingfisher but wouldn't have voted for Thornhedge (I didn't get though all the novella noms and despite my membership I didn't vote)
I'd have loved to see the Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi win.
And I do have to appreciate To Shape a Dragon's Breath. It was excellent indigenous fantasy!
I need to read Translation State. What were your thoughts? I started feeling a bit of fatigue after Ancillary Mercy and Provenance.
Liked it better than Provenance and it focuses less on the Radchaai and the AI ships (though they're present) and more on the Presgr Translators. A lot of body horror and more on the overarching theme of "who/what counts as a person?" And still a bit of "Am I a singular being or not" but not from the AI lens.
Ancillary trilogy
I've gone back through the Ancillary series and enjoyed it more on a second go round as now I'm really wanting to know more about the Presgr. They were mostly the Deus ex Machina providers of the gun and ammo in the original series. In this one Leckie leans into the fact that they are beings who should not be fucked with because when they make a whole ship of people's insides into their outsides they might just have been curious.
I don't remember Provenance now, which I can't say if that's the story or my memory. I'll probably do an Audible listen to it this round through reading them.
I'm so incredibly behind on Sci-fi (it took me forever to stop just re-reading the Hitchhiker saga and the Halo novels over and over) so I'm finally working my way through the GOATs. I'm halfway through the three body problem series right now and it's great! My first foreign sci-fi book so it's fun seeing the cultural differences in it.
Anything from these awards that stands out as incredible? Or should I keep focusing on catching up on my backlog
I'd recommend
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
The Imperial Radch series (Translation State is the newest and is nominated separately)
Starter Villain (it's just fun)
And I'm a big fan of October Daye by Seanan McGuire. But it's not everyone's cup of tea.
I think most of the novellas, novelettes and short stories are worth looking through. R/fantasy does a read through each year so you can page back through if you're on Reddit.
The World Fantasy Award 2024 finalists
Because it didn't seem worth a new post, but I thought I'd share.