Hellooo!
Welcome to the blog’s weekend supplement where I share reviews and a few other things that caught my eye online. Sit down and warm up with a cuppa, a biscuit and get tempted.
This week has been busy as the project that has been most of my year enters its final phase and unfortunately the quiet time I like for reading and reviewing got eaten up. But we finish in a decent place and I can see some relaxing time on the horizon. I will say starting a next Generation rewatch helped switch off.
Now although offline a lot I saw some a few things!
Reviews
Profane Radiance may explain why M John Harrison won the Booker with The End of Everything
As does Stuart Hotston
https://stewarthotston.com/2026/08/27/review-the-end-of-everything-by-m-john-harrison/
Strange Horizons looks at Memoirs of a Spacewoman by Naomi Mitchison
https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/memoirs-of-a-spacewoman-by-naomi-mitchison/
They were not fully won over by A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo Young
Locus has a short fiction round up
And had fun with Frankenstein Rex by Adam Roberts
https://locusmag.com/review/frankenstein-rex-by-adam-roberts-review-by-paul-di-filippo/
And really likes The Angel At The Gates by Karen Lord
https://locusmag.com/review/the-angel-at-the-gates-by-karen-lord-review-by-niall-harrison/
Ancillary is impressed by Phantom Limb by Brian Evenson
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/11/13/the-unwelcome-calling/
And also Taratea by Alex Woodrow
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/11/12/talking-to-plants-at-the-end-of-the-world/
And easily recommends The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories by Ken Liu
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/11/10/bridges-and-voice-overs/
SFF World discusses reader expectations as they look at As You Break The Shell by Becky Chambers
https://www.sffworld.com/2026/11/as-you-wake-break-the-shell-by-becky-chambers/
Gingernuts of Horror gets in my radar a new horror anthology Screams and Wails edited by Donna Scott
https://gnofhorror.com/screams-and-wails-review/
Jam Reads enjoys folk horror Quaint Folk by Bitter Karella
https://jamreads.com/reviews/quaint-folk-by-bitter-karella
And tempts with Small Bites by Eliane Boey
https://jamreads.com/reviews/small-bites-by-eliane-boey
Tar Volon is enjoying Mazywood by Tananarive Due
https://www.tarvolon.com/2026/11/11/horror-novel-review-mazywood-by-tananarive-due/
Skiffy and Fanty also enjoyed the horror novel Loba by Valentina Cano Repetto
https://skiffyandfanty.com/blog/book-review-loba-by-valentina-cano-repetto/
Reactor maximum booktempts Wickhills by Premee Mohammed
https://reactormag.com/book-review-wickhills-by-premee-mohamed/
Reading Reality really liked Tales From The Territory by Travis Baldree
In other news
Speculative Insight has this interesting essay about crew life on spaceships
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/from-the-vault/space-that-ships
Reactor talks about why we need a tavern
https://reactormag.com/why-taverns-remain-sffs-most-venerable-cliche/
Gingernuts of Horror looks at the evolving fashion of the final girl
https://gnofhorror.com/final-girl-fashion/
I suspect more to follow soon but this old essay on worldbuilding from Kate Elliott at Reactor is worth a read
https://reactormag.com/the-status-quo-does-not-need-world-building/
Ancillary has a lovely essay exploring new angle on Le Guin
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/11/09/of-roots-and-worms/
Speculative Fiction has a sea of links to dive into
http://indiespecfic.blogspot.com/2026/11/speculative-fiction-links-of-week-for.html
The British Science Fiction Society has this fine tribute to Patrick Stewart
https://britishfantasysociety.org/o-captain-my-captain-in-memory-of-sir-patrick-stewart/
There is a Full Lid to tuck into
https://mailchi.mp/f5406c98e182/the-full-lid-31st-july-17251715
As always don’t forget to read more reviews and analysis in Renay’s excellent Intergalactic Mixtape
https://buttondown.com/intergalacticmixtape/archive/intergalactic-mixtape-79/
Short and sweet. I need to visit a bookshop! Hopefully more reading time is very soon! Have a great weekend and I’ll see you soon!
