Book Review | Uprooted by Naomi Novik

I want Naomi Novik’s Uprooted to win the Hugo Award for best novel this year. No matter how I look at it, it’s easily the best nominee in the group. It already won the Nebula and without a doubt Uprooted deserves to win the award. In a quiet village in the valley, Agnieszka grows up with her family. […]

2016 Hugo Nominee | Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

If there’s a single word to describe how Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti reads, it’s “refreshing.” It’s short, accessible work of science fiction that eschews the usual cast of western characters, while adopting a universe that reminded me of William Kotzwinkle’s ET: The Green Planet. Space travel is by organic vehicles and aliens are as foreign as the creatures of […]

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