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Book Review: The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses, by Malka Older
Malka Older makes a rousing return to her acclaimed SF mystery/romance series, The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, with The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses, coming out June 10. The novella that started the series, The Mimicking of Known Successes, was amazingly great (I reviewed it here), and I quite enjoyed
Book review: The Mercy of Gods, by James S.A. Corey
I didn’t try to read The Mercy of Gods, by James S.A. Corey, when it came out last fall because I kind of felt like I should finish their The Expanse series first — not that finishing should have been hard, but there are so many books and shows, so
822. Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966) — Torture Cinema #154
https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-822-billy-dracula/SandF_822_BillyDracula.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSMilquetoast heroes, creepy uncle Dracula, and stagecoaches, oh my! Shaun Duke, David Annandale, and Daniel Haeusser join forces to discuss 1966’s Billy the Kid Versus Dracula! Together, they talk about
Comics Review: The 2025 Hugo Award Best Graphic Story Finalists, Part 1
If we use the finalists for the Best Graphic Story Hugo as a proxy for broader recognition, then SFFH readers over the past eight years have absolutely been casting a wide net and looking at a tremendous, a truly impressive and inspiring range of comics and graphic novels, holding them up as award-worthy works that need and deserve to be read. And that very much includes this year’s finalists.
Book Review: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer
I think Palmer’s Inventing the Renaissance justifies its size and then some.
And for the genre reader, this is a chonky, valuable book for showing that the past is a different country…and yet the people in it are awfully human. One can get a real appreciation for authors like Jo Graham and Guy Gavriel Kay by reading the full-on history that Palmer provides here…
Book Review: THE STARVING SAINTS by Caitlin Starling
There is a strong layer of familiarity underlying it all, particularly in its vaguely Medieval European setting and fairy story folklore inspirations. But Starling takes these basic ingredients or flavors and cooks them into something unexpected and astounding.
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