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ladybusinessThis week I learned about the Golden Poppy Award! I'd never heard of it before.
There's tons of categories, I made a direct dash to the Octavia E. Butler Award for science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
If you like reading multiple opinions of books, this may interest you!
"There’s something timely about a novella in which the major plot line is a campaign of 'coordinated inauthentic activity' against members of marginalized communities who have the temerity to eke out a modicum of success." — Unofficial Hugo Book Club
"However, I’d like to think that coziness can be achieved without blunting the edges of what should be high stakes: war, enslavement, debt, bigotry, and climate change, to name a few of the topics that are explicitly mentioned in the story." — Misha Grifka Wander @ Ancillary Review of Books
"This book has some fantastic main characters. I think Sybil is an incredibly compelling main character. I loved her journey of growth and learning to stand on her own and find her own strength." — Samantha @ ladybug.books
"I felt like these two came together because it was following the vibes of a romance plot rather than because it worked naturally: though it had the beats for a good hatred-to-love arc, it was missing the heart." — Kristen @ Fantasy Cafe
"I do not think I have ever read anything that captured the idiosyncracy, the mundanity and the marvel, of love like Notes from a Regicide does. It is a love story, of a child to parents, of a man to his wife, and of a whole family, each for each other and themselves. It captures a love that includes the flaws, the boredom and the habit, the mysteries." — Roseanna @ Nerds of a Feather
"Notes is thoroughly trans, saturated with transness; but, like love, transition doesn’t cure all ills for Fellman’s characters. What it does do is allow the imperfect and necessary love that is the backbone of the book’s story to exist." — Amy Nagopaleen @ Strange Horizons
"Mixing familiar tropes from crime fiction, magical boarding school-set fantasy, Lu’s first adult novel is a dual chosen one narrative full of seemingly impossible choices, morally gray characters, and uncomfortably real consequences that never privilege either of its leads over the other." — Lacy Baugher Milas @ Paste (RIP)
" Red City is a good read; a book that begins with secret academia and then draws you in to a life of wealth and vice created by magic, with characters that are nuanced and a setting that works on the whole." — Mark Yon @ SFF World
The California Independent Booksellers Alliance (CALIBA) presents the 2025 Golden Poppy Awards in recognition of the most distinguished books written and illustrated by creators who have made California their home.
There's tons of categories, I made a direct dash to the Octavia E. Butler Award for science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
- Winner: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
- Kill the Beast by Serra Swift
- The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
- Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
- Red City by Marie Lu
If you like reading multiple opinions of books, this may interest you!
"There’s something timely about a novella in which the major plot line is a campaign of 'coordinated inauthentic activity' against members of marginalized communities who have the temerity to eke out a modicum of success." — Unofficial Hugo Book Club
"However, I’d like to think that coziness can be achieved without blunting the edges of what should be high stakes: war, enslavement, debt, bigotry, and climate change, to name a few of the topics that are explicitly mentioned in the story." — Misha Grifka Wander @ Ancillary Review of Books
- Send Noodles — Unofficial Hugo Book Club
- Automatic Emotions: Review of Annalee Newitz’s Automatic Noodle — Misha Grifka Wander @ Ancillary Review of Books
- Very Quick Review: AUTOMATIC NOODLE by Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom) — Civilian Reader
- 319: Automatic Noodle — Narrated Podcast
- Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz — Womble @ Runalong the Shelves
- Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz: Review by Gary K. Wolfe — Locus
- Review: Automatic Noodle — Bonnie @ Red Headed Femme
- Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz Finds Joy, Community, and Good Food in the Future — Martin Cahill @ Reactor
- Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz — Nileena Sunil @ Strange Horizons
"This book has some fantastic main characters. I think Sybil is an incredibly compelling main character. I loved her journey of growth and learning to stand on her own and find her own strength." — Samantha @ ladybug.books
"I felt like these two came together because it was following the vibes of a romance plot rather than because it worked naturally: though it had the beats for a good hatred-to-love arc, it was missing the heart." — Kristen @ Fantasy Cafe
- The Knight and the Moth - A Must Read Fantastical Romance — Samantha @ ladybug.books
- Review of The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig — Kristen @ Fantasy Cafe
- The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig (BOOK REVIEW) — Cat Treadwell @ The Fantasy Hive
- Could Have Been a Standalone: Rachel Gillig – The Knight and the Moth — Dina @ SFF Book Reviews
- Reviewing The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig — Bailey @ greekchoir
"I do not think I have ever read anything that captured the idiosyncracy, the mundanity and the marvel, of love like Notes from a Regicide does. It is a love story, of a child to parents, of a man to his wife, and of a whole family, each for each other and themselves. It captures a love that includes the flaws, the boredom and the habit, the mysteries." — Roseanna @ Nerds of a Feather
"Notes is thoroughly trans, saturated with transness; but, like love, transition doesn’t cure all ills for Fellman’s characters. What it does do is allow the imperfect and necessary love that is the backbone of the book’s story to exist." — Amy Nagopaleen @ Strange Horizons
- Book Review: Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman — Roseanna @ Nerds of a Feather
- Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman — Amy Nagopaleen @ Strange Horizons
- 324: Notes from a Regicide — Narrated Podcast
"Mixing familiar tropes from crime fiction, magical boarding school-set fantasy, Lu’s first adult novel is a dual chosen one narrative full of seemingly impossible choices, morally gray characters, and uncomfortably real consequences that never privilege either of its leads over the other." — Lacy Baugher Milas @ Paste (RIP)
" Red City is a good read; a book that begins with secret academia and then draws you in to a life of wealth and vice created by magic, with characters that are nuanced and a setting that works on the whole." — Mark Yon @ SFF World
- Marie Lu Confidently Steps Out of the YA World with Harrowing, Emotionally Complex Fantasy Red City — Lacy Baugher Milas @ Paste (RIP)
- Red City by Marie Lu — Mark Yon @ SFF World
- Red City is a perfect 10/10 — Tori @ torinthatnerd
- Red City by Marie Lu — Caitlin @ realmsofmymind
