I’m late to the launch pad, but delighted to confirm that ScifiMonth will be blasting off as usual this November for our annual celebration of one of our favourite genres. With the Artemis mission earlier this year, our eyes are set on the stars - will you join us for a month of delighting in all things SFnal? What is ScifiMonth?

I skipped the short stories, so it feels like a long while since we read the Ancillary trilogy, but our Imperial Radch-along continues this month with Provenance. This is the first of three stand-alone novels that expand the Imperial Radch universe - we’ll be reading all three, finishing with Radiant Star in ScifiMonth if you care to join us.

The journey we began during ScifiMonth has ended: our little crew has completed our read-along of the Imperial Radch trilogy by Ann Leckie. The inevitable confrontation with Anaander Mianaai is at hand. Can Breq and her allies defeat the ruthless manipulator who has ruled the Radch for thousands of years?

Having been enthralled by our visit to the Imperial Radch during ScifiMonth, we’re continuing our read-along this year with Ancillary Sword because there’s no way we’re waiting for next November to find out what Breq does next. Expect spoilers from the get-go as this is the first of four discussion posts, not a review.

What, you thought ScifiMonth was all done in November? Heck no, we’re not done until the final mission logs. Sometimes life finds a way, sometimes it just gets in the way, so it’s taken a few weeks longer than usual to get to the final wrap posts, but maybe that means we can enjoy them all the more. Grab a cuppa, and let’s revisit the SF love shared in the second half of November.

This month has been so full I've already misremembered most of the highlights as having happened earlier in the year! I started the month on a mini-holiday on the Fife coast, before diving into the Inverness Film Festival (reviews coming soon) and finally settling into SF reads for ScifiMonth. I also started new meds to try and settle my migraines back down, so here's hoping that makes 2026 manageable in spite of what will be an exciting but relentless year at work.

Here are a couple of wonderful scifi classics I just read for #scifimonth 2025. They would both deserve a long and detailed review, but many have done that before me, and in a fabulous way, so I&#8…

It is the finale of our ScifiMonth read-along of this modern classic. Fair to say we have relished the read and the discussions, as it was an almost unanimous YAY when the question was asked about continuing the trilogy in the new year. Consequently this isn't the last week of the Radch read-along - just the last for now...

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MY VERDICT: A powerful meditation on progress, power, and the role of intellectuals that feels frighteningly relevant today.

#scifimonth 2025 has been a blast! Let me present two last scifi I read, and then we’ll look at all that happened this month: 📚 Summer Frost, by Blake Crouch Science-fiction novella 2019 85 p…