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But what kind of cheese?

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

June 11, 2025 by stegolily 1 Comment

When The Moon Hits Your Eye is the latest in a string of very strange books by John Scalzi. The Kaiju Preservation Society introduced us to a former Postmates-ish driver taking a job at a wildlife preserve for horrifying monsters. Starter Villain pondered the moral implications of inheriting your uncle’s supervillain business. When the Moon Hits Your Eye introduces another premise so ridiculous that I can only assume Scalzi wrote the book on a dare: “What if the moon suddenly turned into cheese?” The story unfolds through a […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: john scalzi

stegolily's CBR17 Review No:18 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: john scalzi ·
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“What an entirely haunted time to be alive.”

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

June 7, 2025 by stegolily 1 Comment

Nona has the best life ever. Sure, she lives on a war-torn hellscape of a planet with a malevolent blue sphere hovering in the sky. And okay, she can’t remember anything further back than 6 months ago. And also, it sure seems like she’s some kind of inhuman, immortal entity somehow inhabiting the body of Harrowhark Nonagesimus. But Nona has a family that loves her. She has a group of friends to explore abandoned buildings with. Sometimes, she even gets to pet a 6-legged dog […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: tamsyn muir

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: tamsyn muir ·
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It’s the end for Haru

Haru Book 3: Fall by Joe Latham

June 5, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

In volume three of this series, Haru Book 3: Fall, our hero Haru must follow one of the last troupes of mythology and the journey of the hero. Haru is a non-binary blue-colored bird (with a younger sibling, a pig best friend, and a ghost robin mother) that has in volumes one (Spring) and two (Summer), traveled and fought the evil of the land, but in three we must take the trip to the Afterlife to be reborn. Joe Latham’s characters continue the journey started […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Horror, Mystery, Religion, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: animals, friendship, Joe Latham, LGBTQ, siblings, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:291 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Horror, Mystery, Religion, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: animals, friendship, Joe Latham, LGBTQ, siblings, Social Themes ·
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Side Quest Central

Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman

May 30, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Carl’s Doomsday Scenario is a pretty good continuation of the Carl and Donut dungeon crawl. The characters and seat of the pants problem solving are still there, the dark humor that’s both tragic and still entertaining is still there. Plot-wise this volume gets thin; much like the side quest emphasis (new feature of this volume), there is not a lot of progress in the main overall situation. There’s also isn’t  a ton of character development beyond the “game character” that everyone has to perform to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Carl's Doomsday Scenario, D&D, dark humor, Dungeon Crawl Carl, gaming, Matt Dinniman, Princess donut, reality TV

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:27 · Genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Carl's Doomsday Scenario, D&D, dark humor, Dungeon Crawl Carl, gaming, Matt Dinniman, Princess donut, reality TV ·
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The Grief of Wisdom

Where the Axe is Buried by Ray Nayler

May 27, 2025 by Halbs Leave a Comment

That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which it may be said, “See, this is new”? It has already been in ancient times before us. – Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (NKJV). Nayler’s Where the Axe is Buried reminds me of the Book of Ecclesiastes. It is, in my mind, the least hopeful and most useful book of the Bible. All of this has happened before, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: artificial intelligence, dystopia, Dystopian, Ray Nayler

Halbs's CBR17 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: artificial intelligence, dystopia, Dystopian, Ray Nayler ·
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A hopeful future with robots and food

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

May 27, 2025 by LB 1 Comment

If you need a story of chosen family and hope and good food, Automatic Noodle absolutely fits the bill. This is a delightful novella of a near-future where California has split from the United States after war, and part of California progressiveness was to give civil rights to human equivalent embodied intelligence (HEEI) robots. But those rights are limited – they’re not able to use a bank, own property, and there’s lots of prejudice against robots (very allegorical to American attitudes towards immigrants and marginalized […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #food, Annalee Newitz, friendship, near future, noodles, novella, queer, Romance, San Francisco, tor publishing, trans

LB's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #food, Annalee Newitz, friendship, near future, noodles, novella, queer, Romance, San Francisco, tor publishing, trans ·
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