Novella it a tough length. Most of the time Novellas feel like they are either bloated short stories which could benefit from an edit or a story which really ought to be expanded into a novel to do it justice. Binti is one of the latter ( Read more... )

This story left me with a lot of questions ( Read more... )

One day Google (the search engine) develops consciousness and decides that it doesn't want to be evil, unlike Google the company. So instead the AI decides to become a self-congratulatory asshat do-gooder. (You know, the sort who decides he wants to give a country some chickens without asking if they want them. Because he would totally raise ( Read more... )

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This story could also be titled "Oops! If you chop people up, they don't grow back. My bad." At 1000 words it's probably about 200 words too long to sustain this joke ( Read more... )

So it's Hugo nomination season and we've learned two things - the sad puppies are basically irrelevant, and yes, it is necessary to change the nomination process unless we want to let a poo-flinging monkey get crap all over the nomination list for the foreseeable future ( Read more... )