I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Still way behind in blogging nonfiction, but I accumulated enough fiction to justify a new entry.


Dan Simmons, ( Hyperion duology; TW for rape )

Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model: ( No bugs, only robots/humans )
Paul Cornell, ( a border fantasy that gets interesting with Brexit )

Max Gladstone, Wicked Problems: ( Craft and eldritch horror )
Naomi Novik, Buried Deep and Other Stories: Collection of stories, including from the worlds of Temeraire (Caesar, and also a Pride and Prejudice retelling), the Scholomance, and the in-progress world of (architectural) follies. Nicely representative.

M.R. Carey, Echo of Worlds: ( another many worlds duology )
Arkady Martine, Rose/House: ( AI house with murder )
Steven Brust, Lyorn: ( and here the random Earth memes did annoy me )
Waubgeshig Rice, The Moon of the Turning Leaves: ( Can apocalypse fiction be cozy? )
Jason Pargin, I’m Starting To Worry About This Black Box of Doom:( always online, rarely in doubt )

Vid for me! Murdering Stravinsky, Farscape, lithiumdoll: YouTube, AO3

Look, ever since I realized that “dressing up as fascists” was perfect for this fandom, I’ve wanted this vid, and LithiumDoll does it great justice. The internal motion and even internal lighting changes are perfect for the disorientation and cruelty of the song. And there’s so many canonical references that are perfect—all the things they do that hurt others, and each other, by meaning to or by meaning to be good or both. The nuclear bomb and the beautiful, horrible wormhole equations that represent both art and death.

A very good bad review of a Netflix animated sff series, Love, Death and Robots.

Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue: ( political romance )

KJ Charles, Proper English: ( f/f in high society )

Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire: ( palace intrigue with colonialism )

Seanan McGuire, Middlegame: ( it's a chess metaphor )
Laurie Marks, Earth Logic: ( winning the peace )

John Birmingham, The Cruel Stars: ( military sf, mostly )

Robert Jackson Bennett, ( mid-colonialist fantasy ) 

Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream: ( more wayward children )
Ted Chiang, Exhalation: ( the best kind of sf )

Rebecca Roanhorse, Storm of Locusts: ( monsterkiller on the road )

Theodore Sturgeon, Microcosmic God, vol. 2 of the complete stories:( misanthropy/misogyny )

Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish: ( Aladdin! )