Month: August 2019

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Lunella Lafayette Is Coming To The Disney Channel

D23 has been one wild ride we’re still catching up on. But we’re pausing to appreciate the news of a Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur animated adaptation in the works! Read more here.

Audible Captions Prompt Lawsuit

The courts are getting into the ontological weeds with this one… A group of major publishers is suing Audible over a new feature that presents listeners with transcripts of audiobook narration, potentially infringing on publishers’ rights to the original written books.

Books Above Clouds

Take a virtual tour of a newly designed bookshop in Shanghai’s tallest building. These photos are quite stunning!

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TBR These 6 Upcoming 2020 YA Books ASAP

Hey YA readers!

Let’s highlight six more awesome-sounding books that will be hitting shelves in early 2020. I love knowing about books really early on, and I’ve been asked my readers to offer this up more frequently, since y’all are also into it.

Because I’ve yet to read any of these books, I’m using Goodreads descriptions. We’re in for what looks like a downright stellar year in YA. I’m not including some of the big, huge, splashy name books from mega YA stars you’re likely already familiar with (I’ll save that for another newsletter!). Rather, these are some of the other gems to put on your radar.

It’s interesting to note how all of the covers are illustrated and that two of the six below feature snakes. There’s also a lot of color going on, which is really neat to see.

Don’t Call The Wolf by Aleksandra Ross (April 28)

When the Golden Dragon descended on the forest of Kamiena, a horde of monsters followed in its wake.

Ren, the forest’s young queen, is slowly losing her battle against them. Until she rescues Lukasz—the last survivor of a heroic regiment of dragon slayers—and they strike a deal. She will help him find his brother, who vanished into her forest… if Lukasz promises to slay the Dragon.

But promises are all too easily broken.

Foul Is Fair by Hannah Capin (February 4, first in a series)

Elle and her friends Mads, Jenny, and Summer rule their glittering LA circle. Untouchable, they have the kind of power other girls only dream of. Every party is theirs and the world is at their feet. Until the night of Elle’s sweet sixteen, when they crash a St. Andrew’s Prep party. The night the golden boys choose Elle as their next target.

They picked the wrong girl.

Sworn to vengeance, Elle transfers to St. Andrew’s. She plots to destroy each boy, one by one. She’ll take their power, their lives, and their control of the prep school’s hierarchy. And she and her coven have the perfect way in: a boy named Mack, whose ambition could turn deadly.

Foul is Fair is a bloody, thrilling revenge fantasy for the girls who have had enough. Golden boys beware: something wicked this way comes.

The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper (February 4)

As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to sharing his life online. But when his pilot father is selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, Cal and his family relocate from Brooklyn to Houston and are thrust into a media circus.

Amidst the chaos, Cal meets sensitive and mysterious Leon, another “Astrokid,” and finds himself falling head over heels—fast. As the frenzy around the mission grows, so does their connection. But when secrets about the program are uncovered, Cal must find a way to reveal the truth without hurting the people who have become most important to him.

Expertly capturing the thrill of first love and the self-doubt all teens feel, debut author Phil Stamper is a new talent to watch.

Harley In The Sky by Akemi Dawn Bowman (March 10)

Harley Milano has dreamed of being a trapeze artist for as long as she can remember. With parents who run a famous circus in Las Vegas, she spends almost every night in the big top watching their lead aerialist perform, wishing with all her soul that she could be up there herself one day.

After a huge fight with her parents, who continue to insist she go to school instead, Harley leaves home, betrays her family and joins the rival traveling circus Maison du Mystère. There, she is thrust into a world that is both brutal and beautiful, where she learns the value of hard work, passion and collaboration. But at the same time, Harley must come to terms with the truth of her family and her past—and reckon with the sacrifices she made and the people she hurt in order to follow her dreams.

We Are Totally Normal by Rahul Kanakia (March 31)

Nandan’s got a plan to make his junior year perfect. He’s going to make sure all the parties are chill, he’s going to smooth things over with his ex, and he’s going to help his friend Dave get into the popular crowd—whether Dave wants to or not. The high school social scene might be complicated, but Nandan is sure he’s cracked the code.

Then, one night after a party, Dave and Nandan hook up, which was not part of the plan—especially because Nandan has never been into guys. Still, Dave’s cool, and Nandan’s willing to give it a shot, even if that means everyone starts to see him differently.

But while Dave takes to their new relationship with ease, Nandan’s completely out of his depth. And the more his anxiety grows about what his sexuality means for himself, his friends, and his social life, the more he wonders whether he can just take it all back. But is breaking up with the only person who’s ever really gotten him worth feeling “normal” again?

From Rahul Kanakia comes a raw and deeply felt story about rejecting labels, seeking connection, and finding yourself.

Woven In Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez (January 7)

Ximena is the decoy Condesa, a stand-in for the last remaining Illustrian royal. Her people lost everything when the usurper, Atoc, used an ancient relic to summon ghosts and drive the Illustrians from La Ciudad. Now Ximena’s motivated by her insatiable thirst for revenge, and her rare ability to spin thread from moonlight.

When Atoc demands the real Condesa’s hand in marriage, it’s Ximena’s duty to go in her stead. She relishes the chance, as Illustrian spies have reported that Atoc’s no longer carrying his deadly relic. If Ximena can find it, she can return the true aristócrata to their rightful place.

She hunts for the relic, using her weaving ability to hide messages in tapestries for the resistance. But when a masked vigilante, a warm-hearted princess, and a thoughtful healer challenge Ximena, her mission becomes more complicated. There could be a way to overthrow the usurper without starting another war, but only if Ximena turns her back on revenge—and her Condesa.

(This one looks like it’ll be an good read alike to Mirage by Somaiya Dowd)

Thanks for hanging out, and we’ll see you later this week with some YA news!

— Kelly Jensen, @veronikellymars on Instagram and editor of (Don’t) Call Me Crazy and Here We Are.

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Online Archive For Largest Occult Library

Amsterdam’s Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (AKA “The Ritman Library), the largest occult library in the world, has begun to digitize the core of its collection, The Hermetically Open Archive, thanks in part to Dan Brown. Yes, that Dan Brown. See some scanned pages and learn more here.

Women Making Waves In Japanese Literature

Modern Japanese fiction has long established itself as a male dominated arena, but recently women have finally been getting recognition: For the first time–in 85 years!–the Naoki Prize has nominated all women. While still more men are published than women in Japan the movement of change has started including “Translations of half a dozen prize-winning works by female authors from Japan were published last year in the United States…” If you haven’t read a great Japanese novel recently, check out the authors and books mentioned in the article.

Chidi Anagonye!

For fans of William Jackson Harper on The Good Place, you’ll get to see more of him–albeit certainly in a different role–in Amazon’s upcoming series adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad. Learn more about Barry Jenkins’ adaptation and the role Harper will play here.

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The Kids Are All Right

Children’s Books With Foster Care Themes

Hi Kid Lit Friends!

Happy Sunday to you all! I hope you are enjoying these last days of August. I would also like to wish a wonderful start to the school year for all those this applies to!

Today’s list features books with foster care themes, including some great new middle grade books. My incredible sister-in-law and brother-in-law and their five kids recently went through foster care training in Maryland earlier this year and are currently fostering infants, so I have been thinking about foster care a lot. Check these books out and let me know what you think. (And if you are interested in fostering kids, check out www.AdoptUsKids.org for more information.)

 

Picture Books

The Red Thread by Grace Lin

A king and queen should be full of joy and contentment, but they both feel a strange pain that worsens every day. Then a peddler’s magic spectacles reveal a red thread pulling at each of their hearts. The king and queen know they must follow the thread.

A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza

Choco wishes he had a mother, but who could she be? He sets off to find her, asking all kinds of animals, but he doesn’t meet anyone who looks just like him. He doesn’t even think of asking Mrs. Bear if she’s his mother-but then she starts to do just the things a mommy might do. And when she brings him home, he meets her other children-a piglet, a hippo, and an alligator-and learns that families can come in all shapes and sizes and still fit together.

 

Middle Grade Books

Half a World Away by Cynthia Kadohata

Eleven-year-old Jaden is adopted, and he knows he’s an “epic fail.” That’s why his family is traveling to Kazakhstan to adopt a new baby–to replace him, he’s sure. And he gets it. He is incapable of stopping his stealing, hoarding, lighting fires, aggressive running, and obsession with electricity. He knows his parents love him, but he feels…nothing. When they get to Kazakhstan, it turns out the infant they’ve traveled for has already been adopted, and literally within minutes are faced with having to choose from six other babies. While his parents agonize, Jaden is more interested in the toddlers. One, a little guy named Dimash, spies Jaden and barrels over to him every time he sees him. Jaden finds himself increasingly intrigued by and worried about Dimash. Already three years old and barely able to speak, Dimash will soon age out of the orphanage, and then his life will be as hopeless as Jaden feels now. For the first time in his life, Jaden actually feels something that isn’t pure blinding fury, and there’s no way to control it, or its power.

The Echo Park Castaways by M.G. Hennessey

Nevaeh, Vic, and Mara are veterans of the Los Angeles foster care system. For over a year they’ve been staying with Mrs. K in Echo Park. Vic spends most of his time living in a dream world, Mara barely speaks, and Nevaeh is forced to act as a back-up parent. Though their situation isn’t ideal, it’s still their best home yet. Then Child Protective Services places Quentin in the house, and everything is turned upside down. Nevaeh really can’t handle watching over anyone else, especially a boy on the autism spectrum. Meanwhile, Quentin is having trouble adjusting and attempts to run away. So when Vic realizes Quentin just wants to see his mom again, he plans an “epic quest” to reunite them. It could result in the foster siblings getting sent to different group homes. But isn’t family always worth the risk?

All the Impossible Things by Lindsay Lackey (9/3/19, Roaring Brook Press)

Red’s inexplicable power over the wind comes from her mother. Whenever Ruby “Red” Byrd is scared or angry, the wind picks up. And being placed in foster care, moving from family to family, tends to keep her skies stormy. Red knows she has to learn to control it, but can’t figure out how. This time, the wind blows Red into the home of the Grooves, a quirky couple who run a petting zoo, complete with a dancing donkey and a giant tortoise. With their own curious gifts, Celine and Jackson Groove seem to fit like a puzzle piece into Red’s heart. But just when Red starts to settle into her new life, a fresh storm rolls in, one she knows all too well: her mother. For so long, Red has longed to have her mom back in her life, and she’s quickly swept up in the vortex of her mother’s chaos. Now Red must discover the possible in the impossible if she wants to overcome her own tornadoes and find the family she needs.

Extraordinary Birds by Sandy Stark-McGinnis

December believes she is a bird. The scar on her back is where her wings will sprout, and one day soon, she will soar away. It will not matter that she has no permanent home. Her destiny is in the sky. But then she’s placed with foster mom Eleanor, a kind woman who volunteers at an animal rescue and has secrets of her own. December begins to see that her story could end a different way – but could she ever be happy down on the ground?

Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

When Lonnie was seven years old, his parents died in a fire. Now he’s eleven, and he still misses them terribly. And he misses his little sister, Lili, who was put into a different foster home because “not a lot of people want boys-not foster boys that ain’t babies.” But Lonnie hasn’t given up. His foster mother, Miss Edna, is growing on him. She’s already raised two sons and she seems to know what makes them tick. And his teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper.

Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

Twelve-year-old Lonnie is finally feeling at home with his foster family. But because he’s living apart from his little sister, Lili, he decides it’s his job to be the “rememberer”—and write down everything that happens while they’re growing up. Lonnie’s musings are bittersweet; he’s happy that he and Lili have new families, but though his new family brings him joy, it also brings new worries. With a foster brother in the army, concepts like Peace have new meaning for Lonnie.

One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Carley uses humor and street smarts to keep her emotional walls high and thick. But the day she becomes a foster child, and moves in with the Murphys, she’s blindsided. This loving, bustling family shows Carley the stable family life she never thought existed, and she feels like an alien in their cookie-cutter-perfect household. Despite her resistance, the Murphys eventually show her what it feels like to belong–until her mother wants her back and Carley has to decide where and how to live. She’s not really a Murphy, but the gifts they’ve given her have opened up a new future.

The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure for Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?

Pavi Sharma’s Guide to Going Home by Bridget Farr (9/17, Little, Brown)

Twelve-year-old Pavi Sharma is an expert at the Front Door Face: the perfect mix of puppy dog eyes and a lemonade smile, the exact combination to put foster parents at ease as they open their front door to welcome you in. After being bounced around between foster families and shelter stays, Pavi is a foster care expert, and she runs a “business” teaching other foster kids all she has learned. With a wonderful foster family in mom Marjorie and brother Hamilton, things are looking up for Pavi. Then Pavi meets Meridee: a new five-year-old foster kid, who is getting placed at Pavi’s first horrendous foster home. Pavi knows no one will trust a kid about what happened on Lovely Lane, even one as mature as she is, so it’s up to her to save Meridee.

 

I would love to know what you are reading this week! Find me on Twitter at @KarinaYanGlaser, on Instagram at @KarinaIsReadingAndWriting, or email me at karina@bookriot.com.

Until next time!
Karina

My 11yo daughter is at a music camp in Massachusetts for two weeks, and last Saturday we visited for her mid-camp concert. The B&B we stayed at had sheep! They were so cute!

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The Great Book Scare: Today In Books

The Great Book Scare

Have you ever heard about the Great Book Scare? With the death of librarian Jessie Allan, who died from tuberculosis in 1895, many began to believe that library books could spread deadly diseases. Read all about the panic and its effect on libraries here. I’ll be over here hugging a library book.

Must-Read Forgotten Classic

Here’s a super interesting piece about a short story many don’t know about but should: Address Unknown by Kressmann Taylor. First published as a short story in a magazine, and then a novel, it tells the tale of a Jewish person in San Fransisco and their German business partner’s letters to each other in 1933. Read about the novel, why the author was made to use a pseudonym (SPOILER she’s a woman!), and more here.

Motherless Brooklyn Trailer

Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, and Leslie Mann star in Motherless Brooklyn, an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel, where a detective with Tourette Syndrome sets out to solve the murder of his mentor. In classic detective fashion he must fight his way to the truth and “save the woman who might be his own salvation.” Mmhmm.

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$20 Tees!

Summer is almost over, but there’s still plenty t-shirt weather left. Stock your closet with bookish looks, with $20 tees and new totes, including a rad new “Read Like a Girl” design.

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Unusual Suspects

Mysteries That Combine Real History With Whodunnit

Hi mystery fans! Book Riot recently did “crime day” on the site so I got the link to all those awesome posts, some news–which will start gearing back up now with fall, I promise–your kindle deals, and some more things I think you’d like to know!

From Book Riot And Around The Internet

Uptown Thief cover imageAya de Leon: Fiction of Empathy and Escapism

We’re Celebrating Crime Day!

True Crime: Beyond Serial Killers And Sensationalized Crimes

10 of the Best True Crime Books

12 (Mostly) Enamel Pins For Mystery and True Crime Fans

Rincey and Katie talk news, recent releases, and mysteries for Women in Translation month on the latest Read or Dead!

widows of malabar hill cover image5 Historical Mysteries That Combine Real History With Whodunnit

Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike Series in Order

10 Canadian thrillers and mysteries to check out this summer

What Book Does Ruth Ware Call ‘Truly Terrifying’?

News And Adaptations

BBC Studios-Backed Firebird Pictures Developing TV Adaptation Of Snowboarding Thriller ‘Shiver’

BBC Buys ‘Vienna Blood’ Crime Thriller Series from ‘Sherlock’ Writer (EXCLUSIVE)

Look of the Week: The style casebook of Joan Watson on Elementary

This one scene explains what makes Netflix’s Mindhunter so scary

Kindle Deals

A Study in Scarlet Women cover imageIf all my shouting about Sherry Thomas’ A Study In Scarlet Women still hasn’t gotten you to read it maybe its current price of $2.99 will?! (Review) (TW past rape–if memory serves right.)

If “a fractured family is forced to reunite literary novel that is held together by a mystery and sprinkled with suspense” sounds like your jam Dead Letters by by Caite Dolan-Leach is $4.99! (I do not remember trigger warnings, sorry.)

A Bit Of My Week In Reading

How Quickly She Disappears cover imageStarted: Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly on audio, which seems like a real fitting read right now.

Finished: How Quickly She Disappears by Raymond Fleischmann (Jan 14, 2020) which is a great historical suspense with a running thread of low level creep factor throughout. (TW child abuse/ suicidal thoughts/ pedophile)

Browse all the books recommended in Unusual Suspects previous newsletters on this shelf. And here’s an Unusual Suspects Pinterest board.

Until next time, keep investigating! And in the meantime, come talk books with me on Twitter, Instagram, and Litsy–you can find me under Jamie Canavés.

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Funny Nonfiction, Fall Nonfiction, and Rocketman

Happy Friday, nonfiction lovers! At the time you’re reading this, I will probably be on my way to the Minnesota State Fair, a summer tradition with food on sticks, 4-H crafts, and faces carved out of butter. It’s a delight!

First up this week, I want to highlight a couple of excellent book lists: 

  • NPR has put together a collection of 100 favorite funny books, a combination of readers votes and critics curation. In addition to fiction, the list has some awesome suggestions for funny memoirs, essays, and nonfiction. 
  • LitHub is doing a series of fall nonfiction previews. As of the day I’m writing this newsletter, they’ve done essays, memoirs, politics, and social science, with history, biography, science, tech and more still to come. Get ready to topple your TBR. 

Writers Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi are teaming up to “start an honest conversation about racism with young people” through a new YA version of Kendi’s best-selling book Stamped from the Beginning. The YA adaptation, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, will be out in March 2020. In an interview, Reynolds said, “I rewrote the book top to bottom… I settled into it and I tried to figure out, if I’m 16, what makes me want to read this book?” I’m fascinated with this idea and can’t wait to read it.

Cyntoia Brown, a child sex-trafficking victim who was jailed after killing one of her johns, has been released from prison and is writing a memoir. Free Cyntoia: My Search of Redemption in the American Prison System is set for release October 15.

There are two interesting bits of news related to one of 2019’s new releases I’m most bummed about not reading yet, Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff:

Actor Taron Egerton, who played Elton John in the biopic Rocketman, will be reading the audiobook version of the singer’s memoir! Me, out October 15, will be “the first and only official autobiography,” covering his entire life and career. There’s something I find really charming about this news, although I can’t quite pin my finger on what exactly it is. 

And that’s all for this week. You can find me on Twitter @kimthedork, on email at kim@riotnewmedia.com, and co-hosting the For Real podcast here at Book Riot. Happy reading! – Kim

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Read Waterproof Books At Key West Hotels

If you’re looking to read some classics while sunning in the Florida Keys, and don’t want to worry about ruining your reading materials with water: two Key West hotels have you covered with their new underwater libraries. ALL books should be waterproof is my campaign slogan–now taking donations.

In Development: Bad Girls Anthology Series!

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen is being developed into a series! Each episode will focus on a different woman “…throughout history as they are: complex, funny, dark and everywhere in between” and will have a different writer, director, and team of women starring.

Elton John Actor To Narrate Audiobook

The actor who plays Elton John in the film Rocketman, Taron Egerton, will also narrate Elton John’s upcoming memoir Me. Elton John’s first autobiography will publish October 15th. Egerton summed up the news perfectly: “I was passionate about my role as Elton in the movie Rocketman and this feels like the perfect closing chapter to the whole experience.”

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Swords and Spaceships August 23

Hello, shipmates, from the black depths of my post-WorldCon concrash. It’s Alex, back in Denver with a mountain of laundry to do and two extremely clingy cats to fend off while they get this newsletter put together!

News and Views

A really cool look at how fashion embraces our genre.

In this week’s SFF Yeah! Sharifah discusses favorite animal characters.

Tor.com has a great interview with Lauren Shippen about her upcoming podcast-turned-book The Infinite Noise.

And io9 has an interesting interview with the creators of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.

I’d say about 95% of current, non-political social media drama in our circles is about Sony taking Spider-Man back.

There’s going to be a Matrix 4, with both Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, though solo directed by Lana Wachowski.

Here’s 12 YA books if you’re a fan of the Marauders in Harry Potter. Related: Which Ravenclaw character are you?

Tom Felton and Emma Thompson have a cute reunion.

George R.R. Martin gave out a couple of Alfie Awards at the Hugo Losers’ Party this year.

I am definitely curious about Kirsten Stewart’s upcoming movie, Underwater.

The last time Earth’s magnetic poles flipped, it might have taken 22,000 years to complete.

I found this surprisingly relevant from a writing/worldbuilding perspective: Altruism Still Fuels the Web. Businesses Love to Exploit It.

Free Association Friday

The Hugos are still very much on my mind, so hopefully you’ll forgive me if we noodle on them a bit more. On Tuesday, I gave you the quick rundown of winners for the most relevant categories to us. But I want to dive a little deeper because this was another year where the Hugos were absolutely dominated by women–and a lot of them had extremely relevant things to say.

I already mentioned Jeannette Ng’s acceptance speech, which you can read here, or hear in part on this tweet–including the loud cheering she received for her opinion about John W. Campbell. Due to the tut-tutting and pearl-clutching now being aimed at her because of her speech, here’s another barn burner of a thread from Jeannette–with a reminder that one thing Campbell did was defend the Kent State shooting. (Jeannette wrote Under the Pendulum Sun and has a short story in Not So Stories.)

Carrie Cuin also has a great Twitter thread regarding Campbell apologists. Justine Larbalestier also has a good chunk about Campbell in her excellent historical work The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, and unsurprisingly she is in total agreement with Jeannette.

Ada Palmer (Too Like the Lightning) was the presenter for the Campbell and has posted the text of her speech in full so we can enjoy it without the text-to-speech captioning SNAFU that had a lot of us inappropriately laughing. (Honestly, at first it was impossible to tell if the captions were borked or if this was some sort of intentional joke.)

Rivers Solomon (author of An Unkindness of Ghosts) did not win the Campbell, but she shared the text of the speech she would have given, and it’s well worth reading.

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen ChoI want everyone in the world to see this adorable photo of award-winners Zen Cho and Jeannette Ng. If you want to see pure joy, she’s gathered a thread of her fellow Malaysians reacting to her Hugo win. (Zen Cho also wrote Sorcerer to the Crown.)

Elsa Sjunneson-Henry became the first deaf-blind woman to win a Hugo as part of the editorial team for Uncanny Magazine; she was on the special Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction issue. She hasn’t had a chance to release the text of her speech yet due to travel, but here’s a twitter thread of hers you should read.

Mary Robinette Kowal’s Hugo acceptance speech for The Calculating Stars is also well worth your time. She focuses on women who have too long been made invisible and it made me want to stand up and cheer.

You should also read Likhain’s speech. She won the Hugo for Best Fan Artist and gave a speech that had me in tears–and also became the first person to speak Tagalog on the Hugo stage.

spinning silverI’m still having a ton of feelings about Archive of Our Own winning the Hugo for Best Related Work. The Mary Sue has a good round-up post about reactions. Naomi Novik, who has never been shy about writing fanfiction, gave the speech when the award was accepted, and you can read it here. (In addition to fanfic, Naomi Novik most recently wrote Spinning Silver.)

Tor.com has a great “what’s next for the winners” roundup that you might want to check out.

And last, for pure fun, here’s a Hugos “red carpet” Twitter thread.

See you, space pirates. You can find all of the books recommended in this newsletter on a handy Goodreads shelf. If you’d like to know more about my secret plans to dominate the seas and skies, you can catch me over at my personal site.