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Review: The Fifth Season – N. K. Jemisin
The world is ending, but not for the first time. It was ended many times before, by earthquakes and volcanoes and famine. Seismic events can be controlled by Orogenes, people who can manipulate the kinetic and thermal forces of the earth to still quakes and bend the earth’s energy to their will.
Curator Question: 2023 Resolutions
Our Curators discuss their 2023 New Year’s Resolutions – what is on their to be read/watch/listen/play list for the coming year?
Yearly Wrap-up: 2022 in Review
At the start of 2022, our curators chose some resolutions for themselves? Which media on their to be read/watch/listen/play piles did get their attention? And what else did the year bring?
Review: Avatar II: The Way of Water – James Cameron
Inevitably, the Sky People return to Pandora. Jake Sully organises the Na’vi resistance. But when he finds out the humans are specifically targeting him and the family he has built in their absence, he decides that the best way to protect his family and the clan that adopted him is to move far away, to where the human’s can’t find them. Right?
Curator Question: What is your favourite The Lord of the Rings-meme?
Our curators share their favourite memes based on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movie trilogy!
Review: Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution – R.F. Kuang
Robin Swift is taken from his native Kanton to Oxford to study translation: the art of producing magic from the difference in meaning between translated words in different languages. He is torn by the contradiction between his love for Oxford’s translation institute Babel and the study of languages on the one hand, and his growing unease at Britain’s role in the world and Babel’s role in Britain.
Review: The Rings of Power – Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime’s long-expected take on Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings based on the Appendices to the Return of the King chronicles the lives of several younger versions of characters we know from the Lord of the Rings and their attempts to prevent Sauron’s rise to power.
Review: Stone Blind – Natalie Haynes
Medusa, a mortal girl, is brought up by her two immortal sisters. They live a quiet life removed from others, until Medusa catches the eye of Poseidon. Powerless to stop the events that this sets in motion, the consequences for Medusa will be terrible.
Review: The Sandman – Netflix
When the King of Dreams returns to his realm after decades of imprisonment in the human world, he finds that his realm has crumbled and his power has diminished. Soon he must return to the waking world to recover his possessions and restore his power over his subjects.
Curator Question: What did you think of the first episode of The Rings of Power?
Our curators watched Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings show The Rings of Power, and share their first impressions!
Curator Question: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi Author is most well-represented on your bookshelves, and how do you feel about that?
Our curators count the books on their shelves, and reflect on the results. What Fantasy/Sci-Fi author is most well-represented?
Review: All Systems Red – Martha Wells
Part one of the Murderbot Diaries – All Systems Red is the the story of a robot-human hybrid indentured security unit that hacked its governor module so it could watch the future equivalent of Netflix instead of paying attention to its assigned duties – until mysterious equipment failures threaten the safety of the planetary exploration mission it is attached to and force it to take its job (at least a bit more) seriously.