Hugo Awards

Shelf Care | Prose and Cons

Welcome to Shelf Care, where I review three books related by a theme. These aren’t necessarily the latest releases, but

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Alex Doyle

Posted on September 28, 2018

Sweatpants & Humor | Groan Up Comedy

My hand has started shaking as I take the microphone. I give up on keeping it steady and move on to trying to speak clearly.

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Alex Doyle

Posted on September 4, 2018

Books, Culture, TV, Movies & Recaps

Sweatpants & Pop Culture | George R. R. Martin’s 69th Name Day

Today, we are celebrating the birth of author, screenwriter, producer, and emotional sadist, George R. R. Martin. Born in

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Jessi-James Grey

Posted on September 19, 2017

Sweatpants & Culture | Celebrating the Life of Octavia Butler on Her Seventieth Birthday

Octavia Butler opened up the science fiction genre to a more diverse readership. Today would have been her 70th birthday.

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Jessi-James Grey

Posted on June 21, 2017

Sweatpants & Geekery | Happy Towel Day, You Hoopy Froods!

“A towel, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar

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Jessi-James Grey

Posted on May 24, 2017

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