Three Posts on Tor.com
Links! So many links! Since Thor: The Dark World is opening in the US this Friday, I figured I should link to my review of it on Tor.com! And while I’m linking to reviews, a few weeks ago I wrote an...
View ArticleDoctails (Woohoo!) — 11 Cocktails for 11 Doctors
I have mentioned here and there that I’ve been amassing participants for a SEEKRIT PROJECT at Tor.com to do with Doctor Who and the 50th Anniversary. Well, it is now revealed! Basically I was...
View ArticleRich & Strange + NPR Best Books of the Year
This week’s instalment of Rich & Strange is up at Tor.com! I reviewed Max Gladstone’s “A Kiss With Teeth,” which was also published on Tor.com. That may seem odd at a glance, but when I agreed to...
View ArticleRich and Strange: “No Vera There” by Dominica Phetteplace
This week I look at a story from the ever-excellent Clarkesworld. “No Vera There” is one of those stories that simultaneously engages parts of my brain that appreciate very different things: in this...
View ArticleRocket Talk + Fulcrum Interview
A couple of weeks ago, at Justin Landon’s invitation, I had a long, rambly, hilarious, intense conversation with him and Natalie Luhrs over Ethics in Literary Journalism (for real). Justin Landon is,...
View ArticleRich and Strange: “Tiger Baby” by JY Yang
copyright 2015 by Likhain This week’s story, from the ever-superb Lackington’s, glances against the Lunar New Year, so I’m very glad my review of it appears today! Please also note the absolutely...
View ArticleRich and Strange: “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead” by Brooke...
copyright 2015 Galen Dara This week’s Rich and Strange looks at a blazing, fast-paced, relentless sort of story by Brooke Bolander: “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead,” published this month...
View ArticleEnd-of-Year Reviews, SF Mind Meld and a Beast of a StoryBundle
Art by Oliver Hunter We made it to December. I get a bit breathless thinking of how much work there’s still to do before the end of the year — but it’s also a great time to pause and reflect on the...
View ArticleNPR Review: THE DREAM-QUEST OF VELLITT BOE by Kij Johnson
My review of Kij Johnson’s The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe is up at NPR Books today! Reading it was — appropriately — a trip. Here’s a bit of the review: This book held me spellbound from start to...
View ArticleNevertheless, She Persisted
In the wake of some truly beautiful poetry being unexpectedly spoken by Mitch McConnell in an attempt to silence Elizabeth Warren, Tor.com is launching a flash fiction collection inspired by it,...
View ArticleNEVERTHELESS Stories for International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day! LONG AGO, all the way back on MONDAY, I noted that today would be the day Tor.com would release the flash fiction stories written in response to “She was warned. She...
View Article“Anabasis” Live on Tor.com
My contribution to Tor.com’s Nevertheless, She Persisted collection is called “Anabasis,” and it’s live. In addition to the prompt, it draws on this news story. I’ve been reading everyone else’s...
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