It’s Magic Systems All The Way Down
Nov 29, 2023
Doctor Who Special Reviews: The Star Beast
Nov 27, 2023
Friday Fiction: Every Leaf The Same (Part 1 of 2)
Nov 24, 2023
Thanksgiving Fiction: Firepit Words
Nov 23, 2023
Elemental: Adorable And Thematically Complex
Nov 22, 2023
All Systems Red: An Uneven First Book
Nov 20, 2023
Friday Fiction: I Saw Cubes (Part 3 of 3)
Nov 17, 2023
It Came From The Archives! “Tantalus Depths: Solid Sci-Fi Horror”
Nov 15, 2023
Update: The SAG-AFTRA Strike Is Over
Nov 13, 2023
Friday Fiction: I Saw Cubes (Part 2 of 3)
Nov 10, 2023
It Came From The Archives! “The Hollow Places: Breezy Lovecraftian Horror”
Nov 8, 2023
Which Of The 6 Creature Feature Stories Was Best?
Nov 6, 2023
Friday Fiction: I Saw Cubes (Part 1 of 3)
Nov 3, 2023
Book Review: I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House
Nov 1, 2023
Halloween Fiction: The Halloween Decorations Looked At Me
Oct 31, 2023
Almost all “speculative” fiction is fantasy fiction. Horror is fantasy. Most science fiction is science fantasy or just fantasy with some aesthetic changes. Superhero fiction is fantasy fiction. Time travel stories are fantasy.
Doctor Who: The Star Beast marks the return of so many things. The return of Russell T. Davies as showrunner. The return of David Tennant as the 14th Doctor. And a continuation of Catherine Tate’s Donna Noble story that had originally ended in a tragic mindwipe after she helped save the universe.
We tell a lot of different kinds of stories around here. Some horrifying, some thought-provoking, and some downright silly.
Happy Thanksgiving, dear readers.
Elemental marks Pixar’s first romance-focused story since Wall-E, and as a fan of romance stories—yes, most people also find that surprising when they find out—I have to give it a glowing endorsement right off the bat.
The Murderbot Diaries is one of those series that is super popular and well-regarded, but it was not really on my radar until I went into this review for its first book, All Systems Red.
The mystery of the cube and what it means are finally revealed today. Well, some of its secrets. There is always more to learn when it comes to things beyond our understanding.
Tantalus Depths is the kind of book that the right audience will love. It’s a solid combination of cosmic horror, somewhat-hard science fiction, and has sprinkles of space epic. And perhaps its biggest triumph is how it balances those three things in an organic, unfolding way that never feels like a hard genre shift.
Congratulations SAG-AFTRA! You fought hard and for so long, and you won! That’s so incredible! Your members help make the art we love possible, and it’s so wonderful to hear that you and the WGA struck a victory for the fair treatment of creatives!
The cube is back, as it always was going to be. There are impossible things afoot in the second part of this story. Strange happenings that will change the course of our main character’s life.
I’d not read anything by T. Kingfisher before this novel, but given the grace of the prose, The Hollow Places will not be the last. She’s shown her sureness within both this subgenre and in the art of simply telling a good story.
Starting worst and going toward best, this is a shorter but much more spoiler-heavy breakdown of these six spooky tales.
