#scifimonth

We are at the end of Ancillary Sword! We finished the book this reading and are heading straight into discussing it all. The schedule Week 1 | Me | hereWeek 2 | Nicole from The Bookwyrm Knits | hereWeek 3 | Imyril from There Is Always Room for One More | On Discord Week 4 | Mayri from The BookForager Questions Week 4 There’s been a lot of fallout from the unsuccessful bomb: Raughd…

Art by Yuriy Nedopekin (to the best of our knowledge this art is not AI generated) Hmm, it’s been an interesting SciFiMonth this year. For many of us it seems to have been more of a juggling act than usual between our blog and real-life commitments (I can’t decide if this says more about the stage of life we’re all at, or the increasing speed at which the world seems to be moving?).…

I’m not a lover of capital ‘D’ drama IRL and try to avoid those who thrive on it. Likewise, in my book choices I’m never looking for hand-flappy drama, but I do enjoy the exploration of unresolved emotional and psychological states as part of a story. It’s all a matter of perspective, I guess, but I don’t like the conflict and mess, so much as I do the slow unpeeling of and poking at a…

The Friday Fives are back this SciFiMonth! We give you a few prompts and we will post them each Friday during SciFIMonth. You can do them in any order and on any day. We aren’t that strict. I know we made these prompts ourselves but, dangit, was I drawing a blank on baggage. Luckily I have great co-hosts who help me jog my brain along. A Closed and Common Orbit I could have chosen any book…

Back in May for one of the Wyrd and Wonder Fantastic Fives I talked about some of the games I’ve enjoyed playing in recent years, and I’ve decided to do the same thing again for SciFiMonth. Only it turns out I’ve only played one of the five games below myself, because I definitely have a particular type of game I’m able to play, and scifi games aren’t often it. As soon as things get stressful…

The Friday Fives are back this SciFiMonth! We give you a few prompts and we will post them each Friday during SciFIMonth. You can do them in any order and on any day. We aren’t that strict. With Strange New Worlds we are looking at the places we’d love to visit. I had to think about that a lot. Not all of the planets I’ve read about seem like places I’d like to really visit. Maybe glance at,…