I can’t believe it’s been eight weeks since this adventure started. Or that we have to wait another eight weeks for the final six episodes of season 1, because apparently “fall season finales” are a thing the world needed.
This week: Michael Burnham is extraordinary; Lorca gonna Lorca; white women are immortal; Ash Tyler’s still probably a Klingon; and more.
Continue reading “Star Trek: Discovery 1.09 – “Into the Forest I Go””
Wanky episode title bingo card: Latin. Check.
It means “if you wish for peace, prepare for war”, but I’m not entirely sure this episode lived up to the promise of its title.
Continue reading “Star Trek: Discovery 1.08 – “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum””
Things I love: time loops and wibbly wobbly timey wimey shenanigans.
Things Stephanie absolutely hates: the same.
I could hear her chagrin from all the way across town, and it was great. Much like this episode.
Continue reading “Star Trek: Discovery 1.07 – “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad””
In which Jason Isaacs gets his shirt off, Vulcans are the worst, Ash Tyler is definitely not a Klingon (just ask him!) and I have a lot of emotions.
Last week, I made fun of the show for having a pretentious title.
This week, I would like to make fun of it for having a completely naff title. Fans, right? Are they ever happy?
As it happens, yes! Quibbles aside, I rather enjoyed this episode, and here is the post (complete with parenthetical digressions) to prove it.
Continue reading “Star Trek: Discovery 1.05 – “Choose Your Pain””
First of all, that is a very pretentious episode title.
Second, this episode had a lot to like, and also a fair bit that I strongly disliked and may end up deciding I hate, so this is not a wholly positive review.
Continue reading “Star Trek: Discovery 1.04 – “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not For The Lamb’s Cry””
It’s just Liz this time, as we settle in for an episode of Orange is the New Trek.
Continue reading “Star Trek: Discovery – 1.03 “Context is for Kings””
By coincidence, Stephanie and I started streaming Discovery within three minutes of each other. I said I wasn’t going to text her about it, but my emotions were too much for me. We texted. A lot.
This post is less a review than a series of spoilery reactions and feelpinions, of which we have many.
Continue reading “Star Trek: Discovery (in space, everyone can hear you whitemansplain)”
Okay new series here at No Award: Once a month (or so) we’re going to review short stories written by non-white SFF authors. Short stories because they’re easier to fit into our schedules, and also we’ll make sure they’re accessible online so you can read them.
This month, These Constellations Will Be Yours, by Elaine Cuyegkeng. Strange Horizons, 7 August. 5000 words of a space opera fairy tale about Filipino oracles and the galleon trade.
Disclaimer: Stephanie totally adores Elaine and got pushy about this being our first review. (Liz also adores Elaine and didn’t have to be pushed very hard.)
Continue reading “book club: these constellations will be yours”
Quokkas, I really enjoyed The Handmaid’s Tale. Both book and (2017) adaptation. (The ’80s movie is streaming on Stan – do we need a liveblog? Maybe we need a liveblog. But we’ll also need wine. I mean, I’ll need wine.)
One of the things I enjoyed is that, like a lot of Canadian science fiction — sorry, Margaret Atwood, speculative fiction — it leaves space in its worldbuilding for the rest of the world to exist. Even within the narrow confines of book!Offred’s perspective, we know that Japanese tourism and gender relations maintain the current status quo, or something close to it, and the wider perspective of the Hulu series gives us glimpses of Canada and Mexico.
Sometimes I wonder what that kind of extreme patriarchal dystopia would look like in Australia, given that we were colonised by Georgians and Victorians instead of Puritans.
And other times I wonder, well, while the USA has collapsed and Gilead has formed out of its ashes, what’s happening back home?
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