It's March (it has been for a while now) and that means time for another short story recommendation post. Sadly, I only have three stories for you this time, not because it's been difficult finding those golden nuggets, but because most of my reading lately has been novels. Anyway, without further delay, here are the … Continue reading Story Recommendations – March 2022
Story Recommendations – February 2022
It's February, the shortest month of year, and what better way to celebrate than with a bunch of short stories. Right. My lame attempt at a cool intro aside, it is time for another short story recommendation post. This time, I got started on my Daily Science Fiction backlog and have some goodies from David … Continue reading Story Recommendations – February 2022
Book Review: A Memory Called Empire
Image from Kobo.com A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine Published: 2019 Genre: Science fiction / space opera My rating: 3/5 stars I had pretty high expectations when I first picked up Arkady Martine's debut novel. It won the 2020 Hugo Award and was a nominee for the 2019 Nebula Awards and 2020 Arthur C. … Continue reading Book Review: A Memory Called Empire
Story Recommendations – January 2022
Welcome all to the first short story recommendations of the year! To get the year off to good start, I've dug through various magazines and anthologies to provide quality stories for all of you people reading along (which also means this isn't the month I finally work through my Daily Science Fiction backlog). A Night … Continue reading Story Recommendations – January 2022
Story Recommendations – December 2021
Merry Christmas everyone! It's time for the final story recommendations of the year. For that occasion, I've dug out a couple of stories from one of my very favorite writers of all time, Neil Gaiman. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did. Chivalry by Neil Gaiman (Smoke and Mirrors ): An … Continue reading Story Recommendations – December 2021
Story Recommendations – November 2021
For the November edition of my monthly short story recommendations, I've finally started to work through my backlog of Daily Science Fiction stories. I took a month or two away from DSF stories, for not apparent reason really. Getting back to them, though, I was reminded just why I love that particular magazine so much. … Continue reading Story Recommendations – November 2021
Book Review: Unidentified Funny Objects 8
Image: Goodreads.com Unidentified Funny Objects 8 by Various authors (editor: Alex Shvartsman) Published: 2020 Genre: Humorous science fiction and fantasy anthology My rating: 3/5 stars Those of you who have been following my monthly short story recommendations probably won't be too surprised that I'm reviewing the UFO 8 anthology. I finished the book some weeks … Continue reading Book Review: Unidentified Funny Objects 8
Story Recommendations – October 2021
Welcome to the October edition of the monthly short story recommendations. As promised a month ago, there will be a fair deal of stories from the Unidentified Funny Objects 8 (UFO 8) anthology in this post. Sadly, those aren't available for free, but I've linked to the author websites instead, so maybe you'll find something … Continue reading Story Recommendations – October 2021
Story Recommendations – September 2021
For once, I managed to collect the monthly recommendation well before the last minute. Hooray! As promised in the August recommendation post, there will be several stories from the Unidentified Funny Objects 8 (UFO 8) anthology coming up in the next couple of months. As those stories aren't free online, I will link to the … Continue reading Story Recommendations – September 2021
Book Review: Factfulness
Image from: Gapminder.org Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnelund, and Ola Rosling Published: 2018 Genre: Non-fiction My rating: 5/5 stars This is never going to be an all-out book reviewing site, but since I do read my fair share of books, I wanted to share my thoughts on some of them, especially the ones … Continue reading Book Review: Factfulness
Toby Backman 