2020 – Cannonball Read 17

I didn’t love it.

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

June 12, 2022 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

I love John Scalzi. From Old Man’s War to Fuzzy Nation to The Dispatchers. I haven’t loved everything he’s done (Zoe’s Tale and the Interdependency series come to mind), but I generally look forward to everything he’s written. I also love kaiju. Or, at least, the idea of kaiju. I was excited to see Pacific Rim when that came out, until I actually saw it. And I loved Godzilla movies when I was a kid. So there was an inevitability to this book when I […]

“There are albino peacocks kept in the garden at church. They hide their babies on the roof. When the mother bird escapes onto the street she is occasionally lured back with dog biscuits. One day she didn’t return. In a dream, I stuff her in my backpack. The peacock’s periscope neck peeks out.”

Imaginary Museums by Nicolette Polek

August 3, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

This collection feels like rifling around in your bag for your phone, but finding a rabbit instead. Did you put that rabbit there? Were you really looking for your phone? Where did the rabbit come from? Why can’t you remember why you went to look in your bag in the first place? Is that your bag? I enjoy very short fiction, and much like Sing to It, this collection is also crammed with very short stories. Nicolette Polek has a gift, and she can say more […]

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