Category: Swords and Spaceships

Happy Friday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and I’ve got a double dose of new releases for you today — the second set are both fantasy romance. I hope you all have had a most excellent week, because mine’s been pretty darn good. I’ve been playing a visual novel video game, Pentiment, and I definitely recommend it if you’re interested in medieval European history and feel like your video game time could use more reading and discussions about art! Stay safe out there, space pirates, and I’ll see you on Tuesday!

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Let’s make the world a better place, together. Here are two places to start: Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, which provides medical and humanitarian relief to children in the Middle East regardless of nationality, religion, or political affiliation; and Ernesto’s Sanctuary, a cat sanctuary and animal rescue in Syria that is near and dear to my heart.

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Adaptation: the word strikes joy and/or trepidation in the hearts of readers everywhere. You want the filmmakers and the actors to do a good job turning the books you love into a film. Who will play your favorite character? Will they change the ending? Will it even get made? Did you know the rights to many books sell, but not very many actually get adapted? Producers often buy up rights when a book first goes on the market in case it’s a huge hit. A book’s rights can pass through many hands before it is made into a movie. And sometimes, it can take a while before production starts, whether it’s casting changes, or strikes, or the pandemic. For instance, Dune, Part 2 and the Wicked film adaptation of the musical adaptation of the book (phew) are finally headed to our screens this year after delays!

For this post, we have eight more blockbuster science fiction and fantasy books becoming films. There are even more becoming series, but that’s a story for another day. It may be taking a while for some of these great books to make it to our screens, but they’re all still going ahead, and they’re all exciting! There’s another space adventure from the author of The Martian, V.E. Schwab’s tale of immortality, a sci-fi classic from a master, and a beloved fantasy that will make everyone freak out when it is finally done. Which one of these are you the most excited to see?

Happy Tuesday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and I’m coming at you with new releases and a couple of indie books by Black authors to check out. Let me tell you, my brain is feeling melted coming off the weekend because I was a good little potato and did my taxes. At least I got a lot of audiobook listening in while I was scanning documents…and that’s the only positive thing I can say. Stay safe out there, space pirates, and I’ll see you on Friday!

2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Sign up today!

I want to sound the siren one last time! Khōréō year 4 is fundraising! It’s a quarterly magazine of short speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers and artists; they have done such good work the last three years bringing us great fiction from voices I think we otherwise might not have heard. Their all-or-nothing campaign isn’t fully funded yet, so check it out!

Happy Friday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and today I have for you two new releases, and two books set in cool fantasy versions of Africa. I’ve had a great week filled with lots of good news and positive happenings, so I’ve just been thinking about how dang lucky I am sometimes. I hope some of that luck comes your way as well, and soon! Stay safe out there, space pirates, and I’ll see you on Tuesday!

2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Sign up today!

This week I want to draw your attention to a couple of neat-o SFF Kickstarters. Khōréō year 4 is fundraising! It’s a quarterly magazine of short speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers and artists; they have done such good work the last three years. I also stumbled across this super cool project: An Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction. They’ll be translating a collection of Gujarati novellas and short stories into English, and some of them will be sci-fi, since that falls under the pulp umbrella.

Happy Tuesday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and today, I’m coming at you with a double dose of new releases. We had a snowy weekend again in Colorado, and I actually read quite a bit — I even finished up a book I put down back in July last year! That was pretty exciting, and I was glad I’d kept at it. Stay safe out there, space pirates, and I’ll see you on Friday!

2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Sign up today!

This week I want to draw your attention to a couple of neat-o SFF Kickstarters. Khōréō year 4 is fundraising! It’s a quarterly magazine of short speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers and artists. They have done such good work the last three years. I also stumbled across this super cool project: An Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction. They’ll be translating a collection of Gujarati novellas and short stories into English, and some of them will be sci-fi, since that falls under the pulp umbrella.

Happy Friday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and I’ve got new releases and a couple of fun books from Black indie authors. (One of them, I keep staring at and wondering if I could buy a print of her book cover, it’s that dang cool.) I hope you have good things coming at you this weekend! Stay safe out there, space pirates, and I’ll see you on Tuesday.

2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Sign up today!

This week I want to draw your attention to a couple of neat-o SFF Kickstarters. Khōréō year 4 is fundraising! It’s a quarterly magazine of short speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers and artists; they have done such good work the last three years. I also stumbled across this super cool project: An Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction. They’ll be translating a collection of Gujarati novellas and short stories into English, and some of them will be sci-fi, since that falls under the pulp umbrella.

Happy Tuesday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and I’ve got a double dose of new releases for you today, big publisher and indie. I hope everyone had a marvelous weekend and—gong shi fa tsai! (Wishing you wealth in this new year.) Happy Year of the Dragon!

2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Sign up today!

This week I want to draw your attention to a couple of neat-o SFF Kickstarters. Khōréō year 4 is fundraising! It’s a quarterly magazine of short speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers and artists; they have done such good work over the last three years. I also stumbled across this super cool project: An Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction. They’ll be translating a collection of Gujarati novellas and short stories into English, and some of them will be sci-fi since that falls under the pulp umbrella.

Happy Friday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and today I have two new releases and two recent indie releases for you. I’m particularly excited about Praiseworthy since the author is Waanyi (Aboriginal Australian), and I feel like we haven’t gotten to see a lot of Waanyi writing in SFF so far. Give me more perspectives! There’s a lot of really cool stuff coming our way in February in general, and this is just the beginning.

2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Sign up today!

Let’s make the world a better place, together. Here are two places to start: Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, which provides medical and humanitarian relief to children in the Middle East regardless of nationality, religion, or political affiliation; and Ernesto’s Sanctuary, a cat sanctuary and animal rescue in Syria that is near and dear to my heart.

Happy Tuesday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and I’ve got new releases for you today, with half of them focused on short stories in case you’re in the mood for small bites. Whew, but it was one heck of a weekend here. Nine-plus inches of snow to shovel (RIP, me) and then thick fog! Ah well, as we like to say in Colorado, “We need the moisture.” May your weekend have been warmer, or at the least, may the plows have visited your street swiftly. Stay safe out there, space pirates, and I’ll see you on Friday!

2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Sign up today!

Let’s make the world a better place, together. Here are two places to start: Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, which provides medical and humanitarian relief to children in the Middle East regardless of nationality, religion, or political affiliation; and Ernesto’s Sanctuary, a cat sanctuary and animal rescue in Syria that is near and dear to my heart.

Happy Friday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and while it’s technically February now (HOW???) I’ve got two more end-of-January new releases for you and part 2 of my little spotlight on Palestinian SFF authors. The weather here has been balmy after a cold mid-January, so I’ve been getting some fresh air, if you can believe it. Walking outside. Touching grass. Sounds fake, I know. I wish for you a little touchable grass (even if it’s perhaps dead grass since it’s still February) and sunny days! Stay safe out there, space pirates, and I’ll see you on Tuesday.

2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Sign up today!

Let’s make the world a better place, together! Rose and Jasmine Press is a Palestinian-owned small press based out of Canada, and they are fundraising for their first year!