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Book review of Niall Williams’ “This is Happiness” by Virginia Beach Youth Librarian Kathleen Fogarty, with recent additions.

Graham Sleight (2015) by Francesca Myman Publishing lead-times being what they are, the extraordinary events of 2020 largely weren’t reflected in the books that came out in the year – or at least, not intentionally. I managed to read a good deal of thought-provoking SF and fantasy this year, but some books seemed even more relevant than expected because of the pandemic-shuttered world they emerged into. How posterity will view them – let alone how it’ll view the books that’ll doubtless follow about COVID itself – is a question for another day. Samit Basu’s Chosen Spirits (Simon...

Not much more than a dozen pages into The Blade Between, the protagonist, Ronan Szepessy, thinks to himself, "What the hell happened to Hudson?" What the hell happened to Hudson, indeed. That could well be an alternative title for Sam J. Miller's terrific new novel. Substitute the name of any large town or small city (or big city?) in America for "Hudson" in that sentence, and much (but certainly not all) in Miller's gripping story will ring true. The question remains, just who is besieging Hudson? Hipster invaders? Greedy developers? Fancy shop owners? Or perhaps the disturbed, tortu...

Pixel Scroll 12/19/20 A Long-Expected Party: Potlatch, Status And Spoons Among Late Third Age Hobbits Posted on (1) YouTube channel to host it. At the link is his impressive list of sources. I’ve spent several weekends working on a presentation of twentieth-century science fiction set in the year 2021, and here is the fruit of my labours, a 21-minute video. (2) BEEP BEEP, BEEP BEEP. Phil Plait, in a “Bad Astronomy” entry at …A standard radio astronomy technique to make sure that what you see is coming from the object you’re observing is to move the telescope back and forth a ...