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One way by sj morden is annoying me in very specific ways
#I'm 1/4 of the way through and they're not even on mars yet?#and there's not even any good reason for it#the people running the facility are so disconnected they don't even talk to the candidates#they don't even let them talk to each other much!!#which is so weird to me because THAT IS SO DUMB THEY ARE GOING TO SPACE TOGETHER#WHAT IF SOMETHING HAPPENS#..which we know something will happen that's the whole premise of the book#but anyways the author could've just done an opening chapter that's more of a prologue and put us directly on mars in the next one#the same things could've happened there that are happening on earth. so why are they still on earth?#is it to show the candidate phase and how everyone's replaceable and the company doesn't care about them?#cause 1. that's dumb 2. YOU CAN SHOW THAT ON MARS BY HAVING THEM GET THERE AND BE UNPREPARED#... honestly it's fine but lots of things don't make sense to me#even though I knew the story had a cynical slant going in#it's not really a slant though it's so strong it's borderline satire#not in a good way#ANYWAYS... i still wanna know what happens so I'm gonna keep reading for now#but I'm reading like this >:/#sj morden#one way
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Nominations for the 2023 Hugo Awards!
Nominations are still open for everyone's favourite phallic* SFF award! If you are able to nominate, why not consider some of our great books?
Everyone with memberships to either Chicon 8 or the 2023 Chengdu Worldcon that was purchased before February 1, 2023 is eligible to nominate up to five items in each of the 17 Hugo and 2 other award categories.
Some of the things you might consider nominating us for are under the cut!
*I don't wanna invoke the stalactite post but, like, come on
BEST NOVEL
Anything that came out in 2022 is eligible! And we had some bangers.
BEST SERIES
The Graceling Realm series by Kristin Cashore
The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
The Last War trilogy by Mike Shackle
The Hussite Trilogy by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Legacy of the Mercenary King trilogy by Nick Martell
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson
The Great God's War trilogy by Stephen Donaldson
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Rebecca Zahabi, The Collarbound
Kelly Andrew, The Whispering Dark
BEST EDITOR - LONG FORM
Gillian Redfearn
Maybe we’re biased, but Gillian’s the best. She’s been at Gollancz nearly 20 years, and is the editor for Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie, Alastair Reynolds, Aliette de Bodard, Joanne Harris, Garth Nix, Elizabeth Bear, Patrick Rothfuss, Miles Cameron, Chris Wooding, Sarah Pinborough, Charlaine Harris… the list goes on! She is so involved in the SFF community, attending cons worldwide and she is staggeringly great at what she does. The only UK-based editor to be shortlisted for a Hugo award, she’s also genuinely one of the nicest people you will ever meet. Shortly after I first met her, she said something nice to me in the pub and I cried. On the plus side I set the bar for our future relationship very achievably low.
Marcus Gipps
Marcus has been in the biz for decades, starting as a bookseller and had a review Livejournal (yes, that's right, one of us) that helped him build respect with so many people in the industry. Any of the legendary, big names of SFF? He probably edits them. Michael Moorcock, Christopher Priest, Paul McAuley, Pat Cadigan, Stephen Baxter... He led the acquisition of THE LAST UNICORN once Peter S. Beagle got his rights back, he heads our WITCHER publishing, and his knowlege of SFF history is encyclopedic. He also leads our SF Gateway and Masterworks projects, archiving out of print SFF and saving them to keep in circulation. Marcus may be the most unflappable many on the planet, which is good because I'm extremely flappable so we balance out nicely.
Brendan Durkin
Do you like CHONKY books? So does Brendan. If you want a book to use as an offensive weapon, Brendan will have likely commissioned it. Brendan finds the books that are going to be the classics of the future. He works with J. T. Greathouse, Christopher Buehlman, Mike Shackle, SJ Morden, Chris Wooding, as well as being the lead for the Ursula K. Le Guin estate, the Terry Pratchett estate AND the Frank Herbert estate! Oh, and our beautiful D2C editions? All from his crazy genius mastermind brain. Also if you need somewhere to eat in central London? Go to him for a recommendation. I impressed him with my lunch choice the other day and felt like I'd Made It.
#Gollancz Blogging#Hugo Awards#Worldcon#Award Nominations#SFF Awards#Please nominate us!!#Maybe if any of our stuff gets shortlisted I can make a case for getting some Very Important Checkmarks
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3/30 Book Deals
Good morning and happy Monday, all! I just typed out this entire post and then the new Tumblr update wigged out and my entire draft got deleted. :’) Anyway, I hope you all had a great weekend and are ready for another week! This is technically my official third week of isolation/staying at home and honestly it’s a bit disconcerting how little my weekly daily routine has changed, haha. I still haven’t been able to figure out how to get home to husband, but I know we’re all dealing with our own individual stressors right now and we’ll all get through this and figure things out together!
I’ve gathered a few more ebooks on sale today to share with you guys and maybe help take your mind off of the chaos happening around us, if only for a little bit. I know it can be hard to focus right now sometimes (I know I’ve been struggling), but books really are nice and help when I’m able to focus. I know it’s been harder to get physical books lately with libraries being closed and deliveries being delayed/etc., so hopefully some ebooks help! I also saw that Gardner’s, a wholesaler in the UK, has stopped deliveries which means not great things for the UK book industry and I wonder what will happen here. Anyway, let’s stay positive where we can, so I hope you all have a great day and stay safe! :)
Today’s Deals:
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie - https://amzn.to/2Jna3MI
The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin - https://amzn.to/2w2TYZC
One Way by S.J. Morden - https://amzn.to/2wOLvJJ
Torn by Rowenna Miller - https://amzn.to/33Wl3Ko
The Magician's Lie by Greer Macallister - https://amzn.to/3dECuU9
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher - https://amzn.to/3auGd4T
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand - https://amzn.to/3auyKmp
Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin - https://amzn.to/2UuYY2k
The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy - https://amzn.to/3auGl4n
Verity by Colleen Hoover - https://amzn.to/3bGlhrB
Here There Are Monsters by Amelina Berube - https://amzn.to/2X169ku
After the Fire by Will Hill - https://amzn.to/3bA90Fi
Nocturna by Maya Motayne - https://amzn.to/2JnaYNa
NOTE: I am categorizing these book deals posts under the tag #bookdeals, so if you don’t want to see them then just block that tag and you should be good. I am an Amazon affiliate in addition to a Book Depository affiliate and will receive a small (but very much needed!) commission on any purchase made through these links.
#bookdeals#booksale#joe abercrombie#sj morden#jim butcher#claire legrand#maya motayne#best served cold#rowenna miller#one way
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Book review of One Way by S.J. Morden
Book review of One Way by S.J. Morden
This book review of One Way by S.J. Morden was written in 2018 for the British Science Fiction Association‘s magazine, Vector.
Orbit, 2018, Paperback, 304pp, £8.99, ISBN 978-1473222571
Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids: you’re trapped inside all day, with the prospect of severe punishment if you try to go outside (i.e., death). There are few, if any, home comforts; the food’s crap,…
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Weird & Wonderful Wednesday
I didn't love Artemis as much as I did The Martian, so, when everyone was saying that this was much closer in feel to The Martian, I thought I'd give it a try.
Ryland Grace wakes up alone, on a spaceship, and apparently the last survivor of a ‘hail mary’ idea to save humanity. (Other two crewmembers are dead). Oops.
So, just imagine if suddenly all the space agencies on Earth had to work together, and then we blasted the result of that up into space, and, only one person survived. Of course, he still has a mission to carry out as well as trying to keep the ship running, and keep himself from, ya know, not dying.
He’s all alone millions of miles from home. Or is he?
Oh, yeah, this has me back on the Andy Weir book train (still not quite sure why Artemis hit me differently, it wasn’t bad at all, quite good actually, but, this one and The Martian just sucked me in so much faster and kept me turning the pages as fast as my brain could process the words.
You may like this book If you Liked: No Way by SJ Morden, Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O'Keefe, The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
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4, 6, 134 for the books ask game!
YOOOOO thank you :D
4. a poetry book that reads like a story
Uhhhhh??? lmao fuck. I have to cheat and give a narrative poem because I don't have anything modern to offer you. Herbert Mason's Gilgamesh.
6. a book with a pink cover
NP by Banana Yoshimoto. Very weird book. Love it.
134. unreccomend any book you like!
I recently picked up One Way by SJ Morden, which sucks in multiple directions. It tried SO HARD to be The Martian But Different In Exciting New Ways but it fell so, so flat. The plot is only propelled forward because the main character is painfully naive and completely oblivious. I was so angry while reading it that at one point my mom suggested I stop reading it for my health aslkdhjghlf.
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7/24 Book Deals
Hey guys, I hope your week is going well! More books on sale to check out, so be sure to do so if you need some books to read. :) I loved One Way, it’s a sci-fi thriller set on Mars that turns into a sort of And Then There Were None situation and it’s fantastic. Totally recommend it! I’m super tempted to check out the Shackleton book because I read Endurance earlier this year about his expedition-turned-survival-situation in the Antarctic and am so intrigued by him. Anyway, have a wonderful day, everyone!
Find past book deals here–many of which are still on sale!
Today’s Deals:
Mother Knows Best by Serena Valentino - https://amzn.to/2LGmzu1
Masque by W.R. Gingell - https://amzn.to/32SIq6y
Dead School by Laura Gia West - https://amzn.to/2YhRY7Y
Meridian by Alice Walker - https://amzn.to/2Yk3Hma
The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam - https://amzn.to/2SC8wpT
The Marrowbone Marble Company by Glenn Taylor - https://amzn.to/2LFALU4
John Lennon: Life, Times and Assassination by Phil Strongman - https://amzn.to/30Z6ZgK
One Way by S.J. Morden - https://amzn.to/2y8YL95
Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart - https://amzn.to/2YdHc2s
Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition: The Voyage of the Nimrod by Beau Riffenburgh - https://amzn.to/2SBZdq2
The Book of M by Peng Shepherd - https://amzn.to/2LGfSYK
NOTE: I am categorizing these book deals posts under the tag #bookdeals, so if you don’t want to see them then just block that tag and you should be good. I am an Amazon affiliate in addition to a Book Depository affiliate and will receive a small (but very much needed!) commission on any purchase made through these links.
#bookdeals#booksale#alice walker#e lockhart#sj morden#peng shepherd#shackleton#serena valentine#mother knows best#meridian#john lennon#one way
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