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Her Pretend Christmas Date by Jackie Lau

December 28, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

Disclaimer! I was given an ARC of this book by the author. That has in no way influenced my review. Julie Tam’s sister Charlotte is an engineer and has an outgoing and charming boyfriend, the guy who lived next door when they were young. She is everything their parents could want. Meanwhile, Julie works as a waitress in a Cider Bar and designs her own jewelry. She goes on a blind date with Tom Yeung, which starts out badly and ends even worse. Tom is a […]

A delightfully quick and fun mystery

The House on the Water by Margot Hunt

December 18, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Caroline and Esme are best friends: they survived being freshman roommates and have been close ever since. One year early on in their friendship, they make a commitment to each other to take a vacation every year together no matter what. Now, 30 some-odd years later they have stuck with that commitment, but the trip this year couldn’t come at a worse time: Caroline’s son is battling drug addiction and Esme is just coming out of a particularly nasty divorce, but they made a commitment. […]

The Paper Menagerie & Other Stories by Ken Liu

All the Flavors by Ken Liu

The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary by Ken Liu

December 16, 2020 by Ale Leave a Comment

Always on the lookout for speculative short fiction, I came across Ken Liu on an internet list somewhere. The little bio said he’d won the Hugo and the Nebula for his short stories and translations, and as I’m ashamed to say I’ve read very little by Chinese-American authors, I immediately ran to the library. They had his short story collection, The Paper Menagerie & Other Stories, and even though I knew he was award winning, I was not prepared for just how life-changing this collection would […]

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Filed Under: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: alternate history, China, Chinese history, collection, hugo winner, Japan, ken liu, Nebula winner, novella, short story

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Galatea by Madeline Miller

December 7, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

We’ve heard his story countless times; it’s been a well-trod myth since Ancient Greece. We read Metamorphoses, we studied Pygmalion, we sung along to My Fair Lady, and we mourned the short life of (the terribly named but very good) Selfie. With Madeline Miller, Pygmalion strikes again. He strikes the marble into a statue, the statue becomes a woman, Galatea strikes out on her own, and Pygmalion strikes her down. Galatea is convalescing (read: held captive) in a hospital by the sea. She is cut off from her daughter, […]

Oh Murderbot, why did it take me so long to heed your call?

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

November 15, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 6 Comments

Thank you again, Cannonballers, for alerting me to another treasure that would have stayed hidden from me had I not seen your many rave reviews! I am a sucker for both “robot learns to person” and “people learn to robot” stories; I do not know why it took me so long to give Murderbot a go! Earlier this year I was awed by the beauty of A Closed and Common Orbit, but this time I was delighted by some good old-fashioned gruesome space violence. Our […]

Actions v Words

Press Play by Ash Dylan

November 4, 2020 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Ash Dylan’s novella, Press Play is one of the most interesting and frustrating romances I’ve read in a long time. Paul and Riley are roommates. Paul is a professional soccer player who suffered a serious injury and has spent the last year coaching for Portland’s team while they see how much he recovers. Riley has been in a professional and creative rut since her ex-boyfriend chose his career over their relationship. They are each in a stuck place. As a reader you also know that they […]

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