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Review: The Emilie Adventures by Martha Wells

April 11, 2025 by Will Swardstrom Leave a Comment

The Emilie Adventures by Martha Wells

Synopsis Two novel-length YA steampunk adventures from the author of the wildly successful Murderbot Diaries Together in one volume for the first time: Emilie and the Hollow World Running away from home, and stowing away on the wrong ship, Emilie embarks on a fantastic adventure. Emilie learns that the crew hopes to use an experimental […]

Filed Under: Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Reviews, Steampunk, Young Adult Tagged With: Fantasy, Jules Verne, Martha Wells, Steampunk, Tordotcom, Young Adult

Review: Time’s Agent by Brenda Peynado

December 30, 2024 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis Following humanity’s discovery of pocket worlds (hidden offshoots of our own reality, sped up or slowed down by time), teams of academics embarked on groundbreaking exploratory missions, eager to study this new technology and harness the potential of a seemingly limitless horizon. Archaeologist Raquel once dreamed the pocket worlds held the key to solving […]

Filed Under: Dystopian, Reviews, Science Fiction, Time Travel Tagged With: Science Fiction, Tordotcom

Review: The Night Cyclist by Stephen Graham Jones

October 4, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: “The Night Cyclist” by award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones is a horror novelette about a middle-aged chef whose nightly bicycle ride home is interrupted by an unexpected encounter. There must be no compulsion to hide the bodies. Otherwise I’d have never found them. Review: Every now and then, I need to remind myself that […]

Filed Under: Coming of age, Fear For All, Reviews, Supernatural, Vampires Tagged With: Horror novelette, novelette, Stephen Graham Jones, The Night Cyclist, Tor, Tor free shorts, Tordotcom

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

September 19, 2024 by Pippin Took, the shire hobbit Leave a Comment

Synopsis The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly dead. Nebula and Alex Award winner P. Djèlí Clark introduces a brand-new world and a fantastical city full of gods and assassins. Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs […]

Filed Under: Dark Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Horror Fantasy, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, Fantasy, Tordotcom

Spear by Nicola Griffith

July 5, 2024 by Pippin Took, the shire hobbit Leave a Comment

Synopsis The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that […]

Filed Under: Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, Fantasy, Tordotcom

Review: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

June 21, 2024 by Scott Leave a Comment

Synopsis Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time. To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalyptic, Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Tagged With: Book Review, Science Fiction, Tordotcom

Review: Daughter of Calamity by Rosalie M. Lin

June 11, 2024 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis In Jazz-Age Shanghai, Jingwen carefully balances a double life of glamour and grit, dancing as cabaret showgirl while also running errands for the city’s most powerful gang.  When a series of cabaret dancers are attacked and their stolen faces start appearing on wealthy foreign socialites, Jingwen realises that to help save her closest rivals […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Historical, Reviews Tagged With: Fantasy, Tordotcom

Review: The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert #1) by Moses Ose Utomi

May 17, 2024 by Pippin Took, the shire hobbit Leave a Comment

Synopsis They say there is no water in the City of Lies. They say there are no heroes in the City of Lies. They say there are no friends beyond the City of Lies. But would you believe what they say in the City of Lies?In the City of Lies, they cut out your tongue […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, Fantasy, Tordotcom

Review: The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence #1) by Emma Mieko Candon

July 3, 2023 by Paige Leave a Comment

The cover for The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

Emma Mieko Candon is clearly a very talented writer, she’s created this incredibly unique world filled with fascinating ideas and intricate characters. The idea of AI Gods who corrupted and ruined the cities they created and kept is what really hooked me. Add in humans who can communicate with these AI and control what I imagined as huge mechs, this is a great book for anyone who loves a complex tale with sci-fi elements.

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence, Mechs/Robots, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: AI, Emma Mieko Candon, Mechs, Sci Fi, The Archive Undying, Tordotcom

SFF Addicts Ep. 56: Worldbuilding 101 with Martha Wells (Mini-Masterclass)

June 6, 2023 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they delve into a mini-masterclass on Worldbuilding 101 with bestselling author Martha Wells. During the episode, Martha unravels the intricacies of worldbuilding, including what it means, why well-crafted worlds are important for stories, first steps for worldbuilding, research vs. creativity, keeping track of details, how to convey information through description, avoiding infodumping, drawing maps, naming shit and more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Masterclass, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, All Systems Red, Interview, M.J. Kuhn, Martha Wells, Masterclass, Mini-Masterclass, Murderbot, Podcast, SFF Addicts, The Murderbot Diaries, Tor Books, Tordotcom, Tordotcompub

SFF Addicts Ep. 55: Martha Wells talks Witch King, The Murderbot Diaries, Hard Lessons & More

May 30, 2023 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they chat with award-winning/bestselling author Martha Wells about her new novel Witch King, her acclaimed The Murderbot Diaries series, hard lessons from her decades-long publishing career, re-releasing old works (and confronting her younger self’s writing), writing both science fiction and fantasy, demons, The Untamed, Mr. Snuffleupagus and much more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, All Systems Red, Interview, M.J. Kuhn, Martha Wells, Murderbot, Podcast, SFF Addicts, The Murderbot Diaries, Tor Books, Tordotcom, Tordotcompub, Witch King

SFF Addicts Ep. 48: Morally Gray Characters with Fonda Lee (Mini-Masterclass)

April 11, 2023 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they delve into a mini-masterclass on Morally Gray Characters with award-winning SFF author Fonda Lee. During the episode, Fonda shares her “problematic faves” and untangles the moral complexity that we often find in fictional stories, including what draws us to morally gray characters, what compels authors to write them, stories that lend themselves well to moral grayness, the fine line between morally gray and evil, incorporating moral frameworks into worldbuilding and more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Masterclass, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Fonda Lee, Interview, Jade City, Jade Legacy, Jade War, M.J. Kuhn, Masterclass, Mini-Masterclass, Orbit Books, Podcast, SFF Addicts, The Green Bone Saga, Tordotcom, Tordotcompub, untethered sky

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