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A Thrilling Sci-Fi and Mystery Mash-up

Give us more whodunnits in space like Yume Kitasei's inclusive and thrilling exploration of biracial identity, THE DEEP SKY.

Another Dern Book Micro-Review: Radiant Star, Ann Leckie’s Newest in Her Radch-Universe

By Daniel Dern: Having just (earlier this morning) finished reading Radiant Star, Ann Leckie’s newest sf novel set in her Imperial Radch universe, I cheerfully recommend it. (I’d s...

Pixel Scroll 6/7/26 Tell All The Boys On Pixel Scrolling Street That I Will Soon Be There!

(1) HEATS SHOOTS AND LEAVES. Joel Miller discusses “Brian Aldiss’ Hothouse: The Strangest Apocalypse in Science Fiction” at Transmissions from Tomorrow. Billions of years from now,...

Pixel Scroll 6/16/26 One Ordinary Scroll, With Peanut Butter And Jellicle Credentials

(1) HAO JINGFANG AI AUTHORSHIP CONTROVERSY. [Item by Ersatz Culture.] Source:  (Japanese) 阿井幸作 on X: “「折りたたみ北京」でヒューゴー賞を受賞した中国の有名なSF小説家・郝景芳が、...

Pixel Scroll 6/6/26 Pixel Me File, Is That The Scrollanooga Choo-Choo?

(1) ELUSIVE REALITY. “Philip K. Dick’s Most Disturbing Writing Isn’t His Novels” claims Joel Miller at Transmissions From Tomorrow. On the surface, Philip K. Dick looks like any ot...

THE SIXTH NIK

Sisilla, the narrator of Kraus’ first foray into SF, is a Niffakoq, one in a line of golden children selected for special missions, their brains enhanced with six “niks,” small imp...

Pixel Scroll 7/13/26 The Discworld Turned Upside Down

(1) WAYWARD WORMHOLE WRAPUP. [Item by Cat Rambo.] Thank you to The Wayward Wormhole Barbados attendees. Once in a while, elements come together in a way that creates an epochal shi...

Pixel Scroll 7/9/26 These Are The Pixels That Try Fen’s Scrolls

(1) DEADLINE APPROACHING TO NOMINATE FOR DRAGON AWARDS. Nominations are being taken for the 2026 Dragon Awards until July 12. (2) REVISITING THE CODOMINIUM. Mark Atwood says about...

SF Diary Review: PHILIP K. DICK – Galactic Pot-Healer.

PHILIP K. DICK – Galactic Pot-Healer. Berkley X1705, paperback original; 1st printing, June 1969. Cover art: Sandy Kossin. Reprinted a number of times.    Joe Farnwright, pot-heale...

Audible Art Fail: “The Roads Must Scroll”

(Advisory bordering on caveat: Snake’s-hands [1], rabbit holes, footnote, and a neologism or two – also, SFnal historic arcana or at least gray-hairing.) [1] a term from John Crowl...

Pixel Scroll 6/13/26 One Of Our Check Boxes Is Missing

(1) SOUND FAMILIAR? The New York Times poses a challenge: “Do You Recognize These Lines From Popular Science Fiction?” Link bypasses the NYT paywall. Welcome to Literary Quotable Q...

Pixel Scroll 7/8/26 Some Pixels Were Bound For The Scroll, Some Just Couldn’t Find It

(1) MIKE RESNICK MEMORIAL AWARD 2026 FINALISTS. The finalists for the 2026 Mike Resnick Memorial Award for the best unpublished science fiction short story by a new author were ann...

Pixel Scroll 7/7/26 Don’t Scroll In The Subway, Darling

(1) TOLKIEN FANFIC SURVEY. The Silmarillion Writers’ Guild shared “Six Demographic Takeaways from the 2025 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey”. Here’s the first one: Takeaway #1. “Fanfictio...

Pixel Scroll 6/4/26 What If Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March* Became The Fantastic Four?

(0) * From Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, of course. (1) THE PUBLISHING GRIND. Nick Mamatas tells how the sausage gets made in “How Publishing Actually Works” at The Republic of...

Pixel Scroll 7/5/26 I Wanna Stalk And Scroll All Night, And Pixel Every Day

(1) CLARKE V. WOOLF. “Susanna Clarke: ‘I had been ill for 11 years. I felt like I was about to fall off the world’”. The author looks back on the experience in the Guardian. … Ther...

Pixel Scroll 5/17/26 Pixel’s Secret Library: Where The Dark Scrolls Are

(1) HELP MICHAEL WHELAN SOLVE A MYSTERY. Mike Jackson, the webmaster at MichaelWhelan.com, hopes “the collective knowledge of fandom might recall the publishing origins of Michael...

Archived Mystery Review: JOHN FARR – The Deadly Combo.

JOHN FARR – The Deadly Combo. Ace Double D-301, paperback original; 1st printing, 1959. Published back-to-back with Murder Isn’t Funny, by J. Harvey Bond (reviewed here).    Mac St...

More inexpensive ebook goodies!

You can now download David J. Williams' The Mirrored Heavens for only 2.99$ by following this Amazon Associate link. This OneLink will take you to the nearest Amazon site serving y...

Cult Classic

As you know, for the most part I've been enjoying the Eric Carter books. Even if this series isn't growing in scope quite as fast as other popular urban fantasy sequences out there...

Exploring the Other: The Language of Liars by S.L. Huang

Jenny Hamilton reviews a novella that's "dizzyingly ambitious in scope and morality." The post Exploring the Other: <i>The Language of Liars</i> by S.L. Huang appeared...

Books by Laura Kinsale, Cara Bastone, & More

The Duke at Hazard The Duke at Hazard by KJ Charles is 99c! This is the second book in the The Gentlemen of U...

Pixel Scroll 5/18/26 Scrolling Over The Same Old Ground, What Have We Found? A Pixel

(1) YOU’D NEVER HAVE GUESSED. Item #8 of yesterday’s Pixel Scroll excerpted Alec Nevala-Lee’s negative review of Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter...

SDCC ’26: Levine Querido spotlights JULIE FIVEASH

Jim Henson, Frankenstein, & More

Red City Red City by Marie Lu is $5.99! This came out last October and I believe is Lu’s adult debut. The sec...