Over at Lawyers, Guns and Money I discuss Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, and how both the 1999 movie and the recent Netflix miniseries seem to focus on one aspect of the character to the exclusion of the other. lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/ripleys

Over at Lawyers, Guns and Money I discuss Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, and how both the 1999 movie and the recent Netflix miniseries seem to focus on one aspect of the character to the exclusion of the other. lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/ripleys

And the winner for Best Long Non-Fiction is:
A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, edited by Nina Allan!

2024's Best Related Work Hugo list is quite the thing, not least for featuring m'learned friend Niall Harrison. Poignant, too, that Maureen Kincaid Speller has been nominated posthumously for what Aisha and I refer to in the book as 'decades of truth-seeking'. Quite the thing.

The Hugo Award Finalists for Best Related Work are:

All These Worlds: Reviews & Essays by Niall Harrison

中国科幻口述史, 第二卷, 第三卷(Chinese Science Fiction: An Oral History, vols 2 and 3) edited by 编著 (Yang Fen) (8-Light Minutes Culture & Chengdu Time Press)

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Abigail Nussbaum is stunningly brilliant and her blog, Answering the Wrong Questions, is great.

I've mentioned this one before. If you're interested in SF, you really should pre-order this one! Hopefully there'll be a launch at the Glasgow WorldCon.

Thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of my first collection of reviews, Track Changes. I've been working on this book for nearly a year and am extremely proud of how it's come out. Pre-orders are open for an August 2024 publication.

Briardene Books is publishing a collection of reviews and criticism by Abigail Nussbaum. Essential for anyone interest in science fiction. Preorders open now.

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Thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of my first collection of reviews, Track Changes. I've been working on this book for nearly a year and am extremely proud of how it's come out. Pre-orders are open for an August 2024 publication.

New blog post: Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz, a noir mystery set in a world where that Native American city Cahokia is a major political power, is an exhilarating ride, but also left me wondering about the goal of its alternate history. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2024/03/cahoki…

New blog post: Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz, a noir mystery set in a world where that Native American city Cahokia is a major political power, is an exhilarating ride, but also left me wondering about the goal of its alternate history. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2024/03/cahoki…

New blog post: the first recent reading roundup of 2024 discusses Maureen Kincaid Speller's review collection, a rediscovered 1844 abolitionist novella, and the novels Orbital, Flux, The Future, and The Late Americans. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2024/03/recent…

New blog post: the first recent reading roundup of 2024 discusses Maureen Kincaid Speller's review collection, a rediscovered 1844 abolitionist novella, and the novels Orbital, Flux, The Future, and The Late Americans. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2024/03/recent…

New blog post: thoughts on Dune, Part Two, a good movie whose guiding principle appears to have been 'for god's sake, don't scare the normies', and which therefore ends up being less weird, and less interesting, than it should have been. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2024/03/recent…

New blog post: thoughts on Dune, Part Two, a good movie whose guiding principle appears to have been 'for god's sake, don't scare the normies', and which therefore ends up being less weird, and less interesting, than it should have been. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2024/03/recent…

New blog post: the nominating deadline for the 2024 Hugo award is less than a week away. Here are the works that I will be nominating, as well as some thoughts on participating in the Hugos after the last six weeks. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-20…

New blog post: the nominating deadline for the 2024 Hugo award is less than a week away. Here are the works that I will be nominating, as well as some thoughts on participating in the Hugos after the last six weeks. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-20…

New blog post: a science fiction novel was longlisted for the Booker award last year, and nobody seems to have noticed. Here are my thoughts on Martin MacInnes's excellent, and indisputably SFnal, In Ascension. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2024/02/recent…

New blog post: a science fiction novel was longlisted for the Booker award last year, and nobody seems to have noticed. Here are my thoughts on Martin MacInnes's excellent, and indisputably SFnal, In Ascension. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2024/02/recent…