I flew back on Friday and spent a weekend trying to sleep off the jetlag while fighting the remains of the cold. My voice still breaks a little but it's almost gone. Of course the dry cough will stay for few more weeks. That's just how it works when I'm sick. No fever - excess of phlegm and coughing. So that's how my year started ( Read more... )

You can vote for the best novel, cover, comic and short fiction of 2011 on Tor.com I was very busy this week so I just went there today to vote. Luckily, voting is open until 11:59 PM EST on Friday, January 20 so you have plenty of time to post your favourites. The tallies for the previous days voting are here. You can see the changes through he ( Read more... )

So I should do some kind of summing up post before everyone forgets 2011.

Books:
My favourite is, quite predictably, Steven Erikson's The Crippled God (don't act surprised). It was heartbreaking and heroic and I had to stop myself from crying in public places. It delivered what I didn't even dare to hope for but secretly wanted. And he finished ( Read more... )

Remember tor.com and their Decade’s Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies Viewer’s Poll? They finished counting a week ago and the list is here. Just as decade means 11 years for them, the best 10 actually includes 12 movies. However I'm all for treating LotR trilogy as one when it means both Moon and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind made the ( Read more... )

The SF Site: Best Read of the Year in Science Fiction and Fantasy Editor's Choice and Reader's Choice for 2008.

I kept waiting for these and then forgotten all about them. These are my favourite Bests as I tend to like the books they choose. I have similar taste as people voting for these as proven by the Erikson's presence on the lists.

Anathem ( Read more... )

Most of last year was dedicated to my PhD thesis which meant I've read less books then usual. This are the ones that liked the most:

Jacek Dukaj's Inne Pieśni (Other Songs) - Dukaj once again proves no one can match him on ideas.

Siergiej Łukjanienko's Brudnopis - Czystopis (Draft - Final Version) duology - What would you do when everyone forgot you ( Read more... )

Seems like everyone’s making a best of 2007 lists, so I decided to write about the books I liked most this year. Here it is in no particular order (with links to what I wrote about them earlier - be careful they may contain spoilers):

Milena Wójtowicz’s Wrota (Gates) - a tale about a princess (or evil witch - depending on point of view), who is ( Read more... )