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Ray Nayler 's novella The Tusks of Extinction follows the consciousness of a scientist fighting elephant poaching, in her life before a...

Melanie Gillman 's Other Ever Afters  is a cute collection of graphic short stories. Maybe fables? They are not as heavy-handed as tradi...

Off Book: The Improvised Musical podcast had a delightful exploration of the impish Salvador Dalí, an incredibly successful cat rescue, and...

I adored Maria Dahvana Headley 's Beowulf  and was curious to read her earlier novel, The Mere Wife , which draws on the story of Beowul...

Galaxy: The Prettiest Star is a graphic novel by Jadzia Axelrod and Jess Taylor. It's a joyful, colorful celebration of lines and activ...

Diana Wynne Jones ' novel Howl's Moving Castle is a fun fantasy novel. It was adapted into an animated Mikazaki film but the adapt...

Diana Wynne Jones ' Charmed Life is a children's fantasy book (apparently it is chronologically the third in a series of six ! alth...

 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is N. K. Jemisin's debut novel. The fantasy novel setting features a large empire where gods are real, pe...

Fine Structure is a scifi novel by author qntm . It starts in the present day with some physicists constructing an experiment to test their...

Nicola Griffith's Spear is a short, fascinating novella that retells a side quest legend in the Arthurian constellation of stories and c...

There is no antimemetics division is a novel / series of short stories / piece of collaborative fiction authored by qntm . The entire work ...

Stephen Brust 's Jhereg jumped to the top of the TBR queue because of Cory Doctorow's strong recommendation . It didn't hit any...

 I take attendance by having students answer a question. Previously 2017 , 2019 . If you were a superhero, what power would you have? There ...

 I take attendance by having students answer a question. What parallel-universe version of yourself would you like to be? (all typos below a...

  Wolfwalkers is an animated film from the same director as The Secret of Kells . It has a similar sort of art and line style, with movemen...

Naomi Novik 's A Deadly Education  is the reasonable, correct, logical  sort of magical boarding school novel, which has considered the ...

Garth Nix 's Sabriel is a YA fantasy novel; it came to me highly recommended so I will summarize reasons why, reading it in 2020 as cer...

Patricia C. Wrede 's Dealing with Dragons is a cute, quick young adult fantasy novel. It was suggested to me as an amusing and light ch...

The Nightmare Stacks is the seventh  book in Charles Stross' The Laundry Files series (previously: 1 2 3 4 4.5 5 6). It is the second b...

Lois McMaster Bujold 's Penric and the Shaman  is one of the 2017 Hugo nominees (for novella). It is a straightforward fantasy-medieval...