Daniel Ausema, Author at The Geekiary

The Hugo Awards That Might Have Been

August 24, 2015

The Hugo winners were announced this past weekend. The whole Puppies controversy led to this year’s awards receiving by far the most votes of…

Locus Award for Short Fiction, 2014 Finalists

June 28, 2015

After the drama of the Puppy-tinted Hugos, the Locus Award finalists are an abrupt departure from that list. On the short fiction front, there…

Hugos and Puppies, the 2015 Short Fiction Nominees

May 21, 2015

When I wrote, in my review of the Nebula nominees, that the awards this year could prove quite political…I had no idea the…

K. J. Parker Revealed! And He’s Releasing a Serial

April 28, 2015

In a surprise announcement last week, the mysterious writer known as K. J. Parker revealed his identity as comedic fantasy writer Tom Holt. It…

The Quarantined City: An Ambitious Serialized Novel

April 12, 2015

In James Everington’s serialized novel, The Quarantined City, a character named Fellows wanders around an oddly out-of-step city, searching for the elusive stories by…

2014 Nebula Nominees, Short Fiction

March 27, 2015

The members of the Science Fiction Writers of America are voting this month on the winners of the Nebulas for the best writing in…

Serial Fiction: Ash & Flame, Episode 1 Review

February 27, 2015

The first episode of Wilson Geiger‘s serial fiction story, Ash and Flame, opens with Ren and his daughter Emma crossing a post-apocalyptic United States….