Around the Podosphere #4: Podcasts of Note for 1/19/15
The holidays are long over, but there’s still time to catch up on some of your favorite podcasts! Here are some of our favorites from the last week or so: On Genre: The latest Coode Street Podcast features legendary author Guy Gavriel Kay as a special guest to talk about writing and genre history. The […]
Torture Cinema Poll for January: What should we watch for the 50th Torture?
What’s that? 50 Tortures? 5-0? That’s right. January will mark the 50th episode of Torture Cinema. We’ll make this special somehow…Right. The poll. It’s a special poll. For this special episode, I asked the Internet to pick the five flicks to appear on our poll. You know the drill. Vote!
Partial Book Review: Dangerous Games edited by Jonathan Oliver
(This is a partial review, as I did not read the entire anthology for Reasons*.) Dangerous Games, edited by Jonathan Oliver, is a 2014 horror and dark fantasy anthology whose stories are united by gaming. The games featured are pretty diverse; I initially thought (for some weird reason) it’d be all western gambling, which I […]
My Superpower: Nicholas Kaufmann (Die and Stay Dead)
My Superpower is a regular guest column on the Skiffy and Fanty blog where authors and creators tell us about one weird skill, neat trick, highly specialized cybernetic upgrade, or other superpower they have, and how it helped (or hindered!) their creative process as they built their project. Today we welcome Nicholas Kaufmann to talk about […]
Book Review: The Genome by Sergei Lukyanenko (Translated by Liv Bliss)
Sergei Lukyanenko’s name gained popular recognition outside of his native Russia with the translations of his fantasy/horror novels, Night Watch and Day Watch, and their equally successful film adaptations and remakes. It’s not surprising then to see reader interest in translations of his other work, including his science fiction. However, when it comes to The Genome, […]
Awards Eligibility: Our Stuff and All the Stuff We Covered in One Handy Place of Awesome
It’s that time of year. Awards Season. For us, that mostly means the Hugo Awards. And since everyone is posting their eligibility posts, we decided we’d do one, too. But instead of just telling you where we’re eligible, we’re going to do that and tell you about the cool stuff and peoples we talked to throughout the […]
