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The many layers of meaning behind what we eat during the Lunar New Year.

If you have ever been lucky enough to sit in Croke Park on All-Ireland final day, you will more than likely have been overcome with a specific emotion at one...

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

A liette de Bodard was born November 10, 1982 in New York City to a Vietnamese mother and a French father. At age one she moved with her family to Paris, France, where she has lived ever since, apart from two years in London as a teenager. She attended the École Polytechnique, graduating in 2002 with a degree in applied mathematics, electronics, and computer science. She speaks both French and English fluently, and knows some Vietnamese, but writes her fiction in English. De Bodard began publ...

I’m a confirmed fan of Aliette de Bodard’s work. Quite aside from her novels, In the Vanishers’ Palace is perhaps my favourite fantasy novella in a field bursting with excellent novellas, and her Xuya science fiction includes the award-winning The Tea Master and the Detective – so I’m not alone in valuing her work highly. Fireheart Tiger is a new novella set in a fantasy world inspired by pre-colonial Vietnam. It is a quiet, powerful story of power and resistance, of control and aff...

A vineyard at sunset in Grande Champagne / ©Shutterstock The culture of tea and cognac production has been defined and refined over centuries of experimentation and continued practice, but the success of both is down to their respective terroirs. It is the ideal weather and soil conditions of the Grande Champagne and Petite Champagne regions that provide Rémy Martin the perfect grapes for eau de vie. Notably, and a true defining characteristic of the house, Rémy Martin sources its eaux de vi...

  I recall writing a Most Anticipated post in previous years that was full of excitement and optimism. This year, well, I’d like to pretend I’m excited. I know there are good books coming in 2021. I know it. Right now, what I’ve got is the teeth-gritted determination to last long enough to read some of them and appreciate the experience. And that? Well, that’ll have to substitute for excitement. Roll on a comprehensive vaccine programme for 2021! And also good books. There are so many...

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA) spotlights some of the best science fiction and fantasy published in 2018 with the release of The Nebula Awards Showcase 54.This latest volume of the prestigious anthology series contains works that were nominated for or won the 54th Annual Nebula Awards, as voted by SFWA members. Nibedita Sen, a Hugo, Nebula, and Astounding Award-nominated writer and editor, edited the volume and contributed an introduction.  The Showcase’s�...

What a year. I seem to keep saying that, but really, what a year. January feels like it took place in another century. And I’m sure July happened a decade ago. (Or last week. Are we absolutely certain it wasn’t last week?) Despite the pandemic, and the rest of this year’s discontents, 2020 has been a good year for books, even if I’ve frequently had difficulty reading them. Or, at this point, remembering what year they belong to. (See above, January, another century.) But I think I’...