My Steam Replay dropped last week, which I suppose means that it's time for one last Gaming Notes post for 2025. I always say that I don't consider myself a gamer, but then these summaries come out and it turns out that on all metrics—number...
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"The Doors of Durin" by J.R.R. Tolkien [This is the first essay in a new series I'm starting on my blog. I'm reposting it here to gauge if there's interest.
Like a lot of genre fans of my generation—and perhaps several generations before and after—I had a Stephen King phase. The adage that the golden age of science fiction is.
I love a good publishing scandal. They're usually highbrow enough that you don't feel cheap for being engaged by them, stupid enough to give you excellent schadenfreude, and low-stakes enough that you don't walk away wishing you and everyone involved was dead. This summer's excellent...
Greetings from the doldrums of summer, LGM! I've had a rather exciting August. I went to Seattle, did a Worldcon, saw them throw the fish at Pike Place Market, had.
[This review was requested by reader Greg Sanders, winner of the LGM fund drive auction. Thank you to Greg for the contribution, and for selecting an excellent book!] In the.
James Gunn's Superman begins in its second act. Halfway through that act, in fact, with Superman (David Corenswet), having just been trounced by an opponent, taking a breather to recharge his strength in the Fortress of Solitude, and then rejoining the fray in Metropolis. In quick succession...
Emily Tesh is the author of Some Desperate Glory, the debut novel (it was preceded by two novellas) that won the Hugo award last year. It's an absolutely top-notch space.
A Meal of Thorns, from the fanzine Ancillary Review of Books, is one of the most exciting new podcasts of the last few years. A bimonthly critical book club in which.
I had several reviews in the May issue of Locus, and the first of them is now online. Alex Foster's debut novel Circular Motion joins the increasingly crowded ranks of climate fiction, but with a twist that is both original and bracing. The novel’s near-future setting has birthed a...
In the opening sentences of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay, a spaceship breaks up in orbit over an alien planet, spilling stasis pods whose inhabitants are resuscitated mid-crash, waking to panic and.
I'd like to say that a new games review roundup is your reward for reaching the LGM fund drive goal. But really, it's a reflection of the fact that, after.