Sailing the seven seas of audiobooks and bringing back reports of treasures and monsters. Much to tiptoe back onto the blog with one small monthly feature.

Hugo nominations close tomorrow! Classroom materials for Little Brother from Mary Kraus. The Rapture Of The Nerds. The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom. A Place So Foreign and Eight More.

Audiobook reviews, Interviews, Giveaways, More. The Condition Trilogy, Book 2.

Jade City and Exo Pick Up Nebula Award Nominations.

The internet home of Christie Yant. My memory of it was confused, at best. I suspect that I conflated it with the later books in the series, which our teacher ma.

Best of the Year reprints.

A humorous and surprising satire of both the zombie apocalypse and the culture of addiction. A well-written, thoughtful treatment not just of a popular literary trope but of a nagging social issue. What makes this book stand out, besides its great pacing and true-to-life dialogue, is the characters and their relation to one another.