13/2023
No review, as this book is a Philip K. Dick Award nominee, and I am the coordinator for the award ceremony at Norwescon. While I have no input into the selection of nominees or judging, I want to be sure to avoid any appearance of influence.
Bandwagon Time: Jock-Nerd/Prep-Goth Test
I’ve seen this Jock-Nerd/Prep-Goth Test floating around Facebook for the past day, and gave in to peer pressure.
LARP stands for Live Action Role-Playing. It is a form of role-playing where participants physically act out their characters’ actions and interact with one another in a simulated world. In the Jock-Nerd/Prep-Goth Test, LARP should not be understood pejoratively or as exclusively pertaining to role-playing, but as someone who combines the geeky knowledge of nerds with the non-conformity of Goths to engage in gaming, fantasy-worlds and the like.
Sounds about right to me!
Difficult Listening Hour 2023.02.12
My usual unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants session where I’m just grabbing whatever seems right in the moment. Almost anything goes.
Difficult Listening Hour 2023.02.05
My usual unplanned, seat-of-the-pants, anything-goes style. Been a few months since I did this regularly, and I’ve got a gig coming up, so it’s time to get back into practice!
📚 January Fifteenth by Rachel Swirsky
12/2023
No review, as this book is a Philip K. Dick Award nominee, and I am the coordinator for the award ceremony at Norwescon. While I have no input into the selection of nominees or judging, I want to be sure to avoid any appearance of influence.
📚 Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell
11/2023
No review, as this book is a Philip K. Dick Award nominee, and I am the coordinator for the award ceremony at Norwescon. While I have no input into the selection of nominees or judging, I want to be sure to avoid any appearance of influence.
📚 The Legacy of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
10/2023
No review, as this book is a Philip K. Dick Award nominee, and I am the coordinator for the award ceremony at Norwescon. While I have no input into the selection of nominees or judging, I want to be sure to avoid any appearance of influence.
📚 The Survival of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
9/2023 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Does a great job of building on the story and events of the first. Answers some questions, but raises many more. Very much looking forward to the next book.
📚 The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
8/2023 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dark, disturbing, and violent, but also fascinating. The situation is bizarre, but the exploration of the protagonist and how they deal (or don’t) with the events is really strong.
📚 The Science Fictional Dinosaur edited by Robert Silverberg, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin Harry Greenberg
7/2023 – ⭐️⭐️
Dated SF stories (mostly from the ’50s and ’60s) written using now long-outdated science makes for a mostly uninteresting collection of dinosaur adventures. There were two enjoyable entries (Isaac Asimov’s “A Statute for Father” and Robert Silverberg’s “Our Lady of the Sauropods”), the rest are quite forgettable.
