Book #13 of 2026: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 edited by Nnedi Okorafor I got my hopes up during the introduction to this collection, in which series editor John Joseph Adams explains the selection methodology: he himself read several thousand short stories of genre fiction published throughout a single calendar year, aiming …
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Book Review: The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune
Book #230 of 2020: The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune (The Extraordinaries #1) I’ve gone back and forth on my rating for this YA superhero title, parts of which are definitely cute and fun and offer some delightful gay and ADHD representation. I have friends who justifiably adore it, but as a whole I just can’t …
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Book Review: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Book #102 of 2020: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune I appreciate how this fantasy novel’s protagonist is a heavyset, middle-aged, gay social worker, any single element of which would be rare enough for the genre (and liable to be used as a punchline, rather than treated with empathy and respect as …
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