#grady dawes

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So this guy, Kid Cameraman (Grady Dawes), their friend, went missing.

And apparently he is to the Teen Titans what fanon Tim Drake is to the Batfam (their stalker / photographer whom they adore)

So obviously, they're all real torn up and sad about it and they go out to try and rescue him from this fictional country.

They go off and apparently face off with the real four horsemen of the apocalypse and stuff, but the main point here is that at some point, they actually successfully stopped Death from killing a mother and child, BUT inadvertently caused their friend to die because of it!!!

THAT'S LIKE... LOWKEY REALLY MESSED UP?!?!?!

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Treasure for All: Cast of Characters

-Hongjoong

Full Name: Kim Hong Joong

Birthday: November 7

Occupation: Captain, Geographer

Backstory: Being raised by his father, Hongjoong had always wanted to see the world. He had traveled both by sea and sky with his father and learned under his wing, but after his father’s death Hongjoong inherited the ship and renamed it The HALA at the age of eighteen. “Hearts Awakened, Live Alive,” his father always taught him. With his friend Yunho, he was able to repair and upgrade many of the ship’s engines and technological aspects all making a comfortable environment for his future crew. One night, Hongjoong went to a bar to try to relax but ended up rescuing a girl whom he would fall in love with, Jo Da Hae. For three years, the three of them began recruiting their teams in order to search for the greatest treasure to ever be discovered.

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-Dahae

Full Name: Jo Da Hae

Birthday: July 6

Occupation: Zoologist, Medic

Backstory: Dahae was at the top of her class in the science department, majoring in zoology with a minor in nursing. After graduation, she wanted to have a taste of freedom before deciding to work with animals in a sanctuary. However, her family disowned her after deciding not to go to work right away, so she was left penniless and having to find a job on her own. She found work in a local bar and was making a decent living but never felt she was getting anywhere. The night she met Hongjoong was the night her life changed for the better. Two men had tried to flirt with her as her shift was ending, but she rejected both of them. The men fought, and Hongjoong pulled her out of there just in time. Quitting her job at the bar, she joined Hongjoong on his ship and became the zoologist and medic on their adventures.

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-Seonghwa

Full Name: Park Seong Hwa

Birthday: April 3

Occupation: First mate, Oceanographer

Backstory: Being raised near the ocean, Seonghwa had loved learning about and studying the creatures that inhabited the waters. However, tragedy struck his family when his mother was killed after accidentally slipping off the edge of a cliff near their home, and it sparked Seonghwa’s fear of heights. His father never quite recovered from the tragedy but never failed to show love to his sons. After his father died, Seonghwa and his brother parted ways but kept in touch. Studying oceanography at the university, he met Geology major Grace-Anne Dawes, and the two hit it off immediately. Just after graduation, the university was attacked by a gang of evil pirates, but Seonghwa and Grace-Anne escaped safely. After wandering around for a while, they were picked up by Hongjoong, and Seonghwa proposed to Grace-Anne on The HALA.

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-Grace-Anne

Full Name: Grace-Anne Talia Dawes

Birthday: October 15

Occupation: Geologist, Cook

Backstory: Grace-Anne only wanted a simple life after getting her degree in Earth Science, but that all quickly changed after escaping the university with her boyfriend Seonghwa. Her past was already rough with her mother an alcoholic and her father barely in her life, but she had other friends and family who helped her through and got her to the university. After being recruited by Hongjoong, she was able to use her Geology knowledge and cooking skills on their explorations. 

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-Yunho

Full Name: Jeong Yun Ho

Birthday: March 23

Occupation: Mechanic, Engineer, Cook

Backstory: Yunho grew up with Hongjoong in traveling around on the ship. He was orphaned at a very young age, but was taken in by Hongjoong’s father. Instead of learning about maps and navigation, he often studied the mechanical aspects of the ship such as it’s engine and wirings. He’s also known for being the jokester and keeping everyone else laughing. Now, he serves as The HALA’s repairman and will sometimes add new features with the help of Phoebe, Wooyoung, and Taeran.

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-Yeosang

Full Name: Kang Yeo Sang

Birthday: June 15

Occupation: Medic, Botanist, Quartermaster

Backstory: Yeosang’s father was a doctor, and he decided to follow in his footsteps; but he didn’t feel that he was studying medicine for himself. He felt as if it was just to please his family. Dropping university wasn’t easy, but as long as Phoebe was with him, he was confident in any path they chose. Although, he hadn’t quite completed his schooling, he was able to gather whatever medical books he could find and study from them. Now, on The HALA, he’s the medic and the Quartermaster. He may be the more quiet and reserved type, but that doesn’t hide his kind heart.

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-Phoebe

Full Name: Phoebe Jocelyn Daniels

Birthday: January 10

Occupation: Hacker, Computer scientist

Backstory: Phoebe had been raised by her grandparents since she was two years old. Her parents had gotten into a horrible fight, causing her father to hang himself and her mother to abandon her. Her grandparents had always been loving and supportive of Phoebe in whatever she did, and eventually she was able to get into university for computer science. There she met and fell in love with med student Kang Yeosang. The two eventually decided to drop university to start a life of their own, but were recruited by Hongjoong after he was injured on an expedition.

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-San

Full Name: Choi San

Birthday: July 10

Occupation: Navigation, Astronomer

Backstory: San had been an orphan since he was small, but he grew up under Mr. Wilcox’s wing and eventually being taken in as his intern. He studied astronomy and navigation while working for the Wilcox’s company. San lived with the Wilcox family, and fell in love with the youngest daughter Celestia. He often would hear her sing whenever she studied, was getting ready for the day, getting ready for bed, anything. Her voice melted his heart; and knowing that she’d be the woman for him, he saved part of what he made for a ring to propose to her with. For years, they had been friends, but it wasn’t until they were both eighteen when San confessed his love to her and she had felt the same. The two eloped shortly after San’s twentieth birthday. However, after a break-in in the Wilcox home, he and Celestia had to escape without looking back. After mourning the loss of Celestia’s parents and two older siblings, the two were soon recruited by San’s friend Hongjoong. While on the ship, San is able to use his knowledge in Astronomy to navigate the ship and care for his pregnant wife.

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-Celestia

Full Name: Celestia Joy Wilcox-Choi

Birthday: May 7

Occupation: Archaeologist

Backstory: Celestia was brought up in a wealthy family. Her father was the CEO and owner of Wilcox Inc., but she was brought up to be kind and good-hearted to those around her. She studied artifacts from ancient ruins and grew a love for archaeology. Singing was also one of her favorite pastimes, but it also helped when she would work on her studies. However, one fateful night, robbers broke into her home, causing her mother to give her a large amount of money to take with her and San to escape. Mrs. Wilcox was the only one who knew of her daughter’s marriage to San. Once on the captain’s ship, the two feel safe again. Due to her pregnancy, she spends most days quietly studying the artifacts the crew finds on their journey.

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-Mingi

Full Name: Song Min Gi

Birthday: August 9

Occupation: Pilot, Aeronautics

Backstory: Both of Mingi’s parents were pilots. That’s where he learned about aeronautics, but it wasn’t until he reached high school where had heard about Hongjoong’s father’s ship and became fascinated with how it flew when it traveled overseas and made a goal to one day fly it. He spent countless hours studying both aeronautics and pirate ships until he was able to teach himself how flying ships worked. Mingi was also known for being a sweetheart despite his strong features, and when he met Kim Taeran, she had rocked his world. About a year after meeting, their college was set ablaze, so the two ran off and eventually joined Hongjoong and the rest of ATEEZ and their significant others’ on The HALA.

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-Taeran

Full Name: Kim Tae Ran

Birthday: June 24

Occupation: Mathematician

Backstory: Taeran had been building walls around herself ever since her best friend betrayed her when they were fourteen, which resulted in her parents’ murders. From then on she had the hardest time trusting people. Although it seemed weird to others, solving math problems helped her to cope. When she got to college, she met Mingi but didn’t trust him right away as she did with others. As time went on, she opened up to Mingi more and eventually found another one of very few people to trust. After running away with him after their school burned down, she and Mingi joined Hongjoong and she is able to put her math skills to use when she and Phoebe decipher codings on artifacts and helping Yunho with adding new technologies on the ship.

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-Wooyoung

Full Name: Jung Woo Young

Birthday: November 26

Occupation: Physicist

Backstory: Wooyoung grew up in a wealthy family, but his parents were barely around due to their jobs. His nanny was the one who really raised him, and taught him to be kind and loving to others, and this allowed him to have many friends growing up. One of those friends was Dinah Grady, and eventually they became lovers. He studied physics all throughout his schooling, and eventually earned himself a degree in that field. However, he’ll have times where he doubts if people genuinely love him due to the lack of love from his folks. In order to get a fresh start, he and Dinah ran off to begin a new life for themselves and eventually stumbled onto The HALA.

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-Dinah

Full Name: Dinah Ruth Grady

Birthday: June 27

Occupation: Barrelman (Crow’s nest), Meteorologist

Backstory: Being a labeled a “wild one” due to having a few tattoos and a couple of piercings, Dinah has actually always been a sweetheart. She grew up climbing trees and taking gymnastics, but eventually took up meteorology for a career path. Dinah had always been known for being beautiful, but she wanted to show others that there was much more to her than a pretty face. When her heart was stolen by Jung Wooyoung, she knew she wanted to be with him for the rest of her days, but she’s always there for him when he needs someone to hold. The two of them eventually joined The HALA, and were the last ones to join, completing the crew. Dinah was appointed the barrelman due to her knowledgable in detecting the weather, noticing things really well, and being able to use her agility to climb up the crow’s nest.

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-Jongho

Full Name: Choi Jong Ho

Birthday: October 12

Occupation: Gunman, Pyrotechnic

Backstory: Jongho had a rough childhood. When he was seven, both of his parents were killed in a car accident, which sent him to live with his aunt and uncle and cousins. He was often neglected, and eventually led him to be a troublemaker, often getting his hands on matches and fireworks. When he was in middle school, he was sent to counseling and his mentor waisted no time in helping Jongho get back on his feet. His mentor was also a gunman, so he taught Jongho how put his pyrotechnic skills to good use. Once Jongho was able to go off on his own, he ran from home, and sneaked onto The HALA, but not without Dahae noticing and taking him to Hongjoong. Since then, Jongho has been in charge of the weaponry on The HALA. He might have a short temper sometimes, but he’s learned to control it greatly.

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A/N: I’m sorry if some of these backstories seemed vague. I just wanted to make a basic explanation of how each member got onto The HALA.

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Shakespeare and Fury Incorrect Quotes

Don ‘Wardaddy’ Collier: Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Grady Travis: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Boyd Swan: What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.

Trini ‘Gordo’ García: By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Pete Binkowski: They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

Michael Parker: I will wear my heart upon my sleeve; For daws to peck at.

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The 2019 Locus Award nominees: your guide to the best sf/f of 2018

Locus Magazine has published its annual Locus Award finalists, a shortlist of the best science fiction and fantasy of the past calendar year. I rely on this list to find the books I've overlooked (so. many. books.). This year's looks like a bumper crop.

Now that the finalists have been announced, Locus subscribers and others can cast their votes; the awards will be presented in Seattle during a weekend-long event that runs June 28-30, MC'ed by Connie Willis.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US; Hodder & Stoughton)

The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)

If Tomorrow Comes, Nancy Kress (Tor)

Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK)

Embers of War, Gareth L. Powell (Titan US; Titan UK)

Elysium Fire, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)

Red Moon, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Unholy Land, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)

Space Opera, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)

FANTASY NOVEL

Lies Sleeping, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW; Gollancz)

Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown; Jo Fletcher)

The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson (Tor)

Deep Roots, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)

Ahab’s Return, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, Theodora Goss (Saga)

The Mere Wife, Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD)

The Wonder Engine, T. Kingfisher (Argyll Productions)

Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan)

Creatures of Want and Ruin, Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams)

HORROR NOVEL

In the Night Wood, Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams)

Unlanguage, Michael Cisco (Eraserhead)

We Sold Our Souls, Grady Hendrix (Quirk)

Coyote Songs, Gabino Iglesias (Broken River)

The Hunger, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Bantam Press UK)

The Outsider, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)

The Listener, Robert McCammon (Cemetery Dance)

Cross Her Heart, Sarah Pinborough (HarperCollins UK/Morrow)

The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)

Tide of Stone, Kaaron Warren (Omnium Gatherum)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

The Gone Away Place, Christopher Barzak (Knopf)

The Cruel Prince, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)

The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform; Gollancz)

Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman (Random House)

Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)

Cross Fire, Fonda Lee (Scholastic)

The Agony House, Cherie Priest & Tara O’Connor (Levine)

Half-Witch, John Schoffstall (Big Mouth House)

Impostors, Scott Westerfeld (Scholastic US; Scholastic UK)

Mapping the Bones, Jane Yolen (Philomel)

FIRST NOVEL

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt; Macmillan)

Semiosis, Sue Burke (Tor)

Armed in Her Fashion, Kate Heartfield (ChiZine)

The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)

The Quantum Magician, Derek Künsken (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Annex, Rich Larson (Orbit US)

Severance, Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)

Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)

Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

NOVELLA

The Black God’s Drums, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)

The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)

“Umbernight“, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld 2/18)

Black Helicopters, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)

Time Was, Ian McDonald (Tor.com Publishing)

Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson (Tor.com Publishing)

The Freeze-Frame Revolution, Peter Watts (Tachyon)

Artificial Condition, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

The Descent of Monsters, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

“The Donner Party”, Dale Bailey (F&SF 1–2/18)

“Okay, Glory”, Elizabeth Bear (Twelve Tomorrows)

“No Flight Without the Shatter“, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com 8/15/18)

The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)

“The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections“, Tina Connolly (Tor.com 7/11/18)

“An Agent of Utopia”, Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)

“Queen Lily“, Theodora Goss (Lightspeed 11/18)

“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth“, Daryl Gregory (Tor.com 9/19/18)

“Quality Time”, Ken Liu (Robots vs Fairies)

“How to Swallow the Moon“, Isabel Yap (Uncanny 11–12/18)

SHORT STORY

“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington“, Phenderson Djèlí Clark (Fireside 2/18)

“The Bookcase Expedition”, Jeffrey Ford (Robots vs Fairies)

“STET“, Sarah Gailey (Fireside 10/18)

“A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies“, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/6/18)

“Cuisine des Mémoires”, N.K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)

“The Storyteller’s Replacement”, N.K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)

“Firelight“, Ursula K. Le Guin (Paris Review Summer ’18)

“The Starship and the Temple Cat“, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/1/18)

“Mother of Invention“, Nnedi Okorafor (Future Tense)

“The Court Magician“, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 1/18)

ANTHOLOGY

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)

The Book of Magic, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)

Worlds Seen in Passing, Irene Gallo, ed. (Tor.com Publishing)

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, N.K. Jemisin & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)

Robots vs Fairies, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Twelve, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Infinity’s End, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

The Underwater Ballroom Society, Tiffany Trent & Stephanie Burgis, eds. (Five Fathoms)

The Future Is Female!, Lisa Yaszek, ed. (Library of America)

COLLECTION

The Tangled Lands, Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell (Saga)

Brief Cases, Jim Butcher (Ace; Orbit UK)

An Agent of Utopia, Andy Duncan (Small Beer)

How Long ’til Black Future Month?, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

The Dinosaur Tourist, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)

Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)

All the Fabulous Beasts, Priya Sharma (Undertow)

The Future Is Blue, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)

Starlings, Jo Walton (Tachyon)

How to Fracture a Fairy Tale, Jane Yolen (Tachyon)

MAGAZINE

Analog

Asimov’s

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Clarkesworld

F&SF

Fireside

Lightspeed

Strange Horizons

Tor.com

Uncanny

PUBLISHER

Angry Robot

Baen

DAW

Gollancz

Orbit

Saga

Small Beer

Subterranean

Tachyon

Tor

EDITOR

John Joseph Adams

Neil Clarke

Ellen Datlow

Gardner Dozois

C.C. Finlay

Jonathan Strahan

Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Ann & Jeff VanderMeer

Sheila Williams

Navah Wolfe

ARTIST

Kinuko Y. Craft

Galen Dara

Julie Dillon

Leo & Diane Dillon

Bob Eggleton

Victo Ngai

John Picacio

Shaun Tan

Charles Vess

Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, Michael Benson (Simon & Schuster)

Sense of Wonder: Short Fiction Reviews (2009-2017), Gardner Dozois (ReAnimus)

Strange Stars, Jason Heller (Melville House)

Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz)

Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, Ursula K. Le Guin & David Naimon (Tin House)

Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility, Alexis Lothian (NYU Press)

Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, Catherine McIlwaine, ed. (Bodleian Library)

Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Alec Nevala-Lee (Dey Street)

None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer, Benjamin J. Robertson (University of Minnesota Press)

An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000, Jo Walton (Tor)

ART BOOK

Yoshitaka Amano, Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography – Beyond the Fantasy, Florent Gorges (Les Éditions Pix’n Love 2015; Dark Horse)

Spectrum 25: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)

John Howe, A Middle-earth Traveler: Sketches from Bag End to Mordor (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; HarperCollins UK)

Jeffrey Alan Love, The Thousand Demon Tree (Flesk)

Simon Stålenhag, The Electric State (Fria Ligan ’17; Skybound)

Shaun Tan, Cicada (Lothian; Levine ’19)

Charles Vess, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)

Michael Whelan, Beyond Science Fiction: The Alternative Realism of Michael Whelan (Baby Tattoo)

Dungeons & Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History, Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, & Sam Witwer (Ten Speed)

Lisbeth Zwerger, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling (Levine)

https://boingboing.net/2019/05/07/futures-of-the-past-year.html

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Lavie Tidhar, Peter Watts, Jo Walton, Jane Yolen, and Tachyon itself are all Locus Award finalists

The finalists for the 2018 Locus Awards were announced. Lavie Tidhar’s  UNHOLY LAND, Peter Watts’ THE FREEZE-FRAME REVOLUTION, Jo Walton’s STARLINGS (as well as An Informal History of the Hugos), Jane Yolen’s HOW TO FRACTURE A FAIRY TALE (as well as Mapping the Bones), and Tachyon Publications itself all received nominations. Many Tachyon authors, editors, and artists received notice including John Joseph Adams, Ellen Datlow, Daryl Gregory, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Nancy Kress, John Picacio, Alastair Reynolds, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Charles Vess, Michael Whelan, and Sheila Williams.

Congratulations to all the finalists.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US; Hodder & Stoughton)

The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)

If Tomorrow Comes, Nancy Kress (Tor)

Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK)

Embers of War, Gareth L. Powell (Titan US; Titan UK)

Elysium Fire, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)

Red Moon, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

UNHOLY LAND, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)

Space Opera, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)

FANTASY NOVEL

Lies Sleeping, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW; Gollancz)

Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown; Jo Fletcher)

The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson (Tor)

Deep Roots, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)

Ahab’s Return, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, Theodora Goss (Saga)

The Mere Wife, Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD)

The Wonder Engine, T. Kingfisher (Argyll Productions)

Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan)

Creatures of Want and Ruin, Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams)

HORROR NOVEL

In the Night Wood, Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams)

Unlanguage, Michael Cisco (Eraserhead)

We Sold Our Souls, Grady Hendrix (Quirk)

Coyote Songs, Gabino Iglesias (Broken River)

The Hunger, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Bantam Press UK)

The Outsider, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)

The Listener, Robert McCammon (Cemetery Dance)

Cross Her Heart, Sarah Pinborough (HarperCollins UK/Morrow)

The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)

Tide of Stone, Kaaron Warren (Omnium Gatherum)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

The Gone Away Place, Christopher Barzak (Knopf)

The Cruel Prince, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)

The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform; Gollancz)

Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman (Random House)

Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)

Cross Fire, Fonda Lee (Scholastic)

The Agony House, Cherie Priest & Tara O’Connor (Levine)

Half-Witch, John Schoffstall (Big Mouth House)

Impostors, Scott Westerfeld (Scholastic US; Scholastic UK)

Mapping the Bones, Jane Yolen (Philomel)

FIRST NOVEL

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt; Macmillan)

Semiosis, Sue Burke (Tor)

Armed in Her Fashion, Kate Heartfield (ChiZine)

The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)

The Quantum Magician, Derek Künsken (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Annex, Rich Larson (Orbit US)

Severance, Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)

Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)

Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

NOVELLA

The Black God’s Drums, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)

The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)

“Umbernight“, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld 2/18)

Black Helicopters, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)

Time Was, Ian McDonald (Tor.com Publishing)

Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson (Tor.com Publishing)

THE FREEZE-FRAME REVOLUTION, Peter Watts (Tachyon)

Artificial Condition, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

The Descent of Monsters, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

“The Donner Party”, Dale Bailey (F&SF 1–2/18)

“Okay, Glory”, Elizabeth Bear (Twelve Tomorrows)

“No Flight Without the Shatter“, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com 8/15/18)

The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)

“The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections“, Tina Connolly (Tor.com 7/11/18)

“An Agent of Utopia”, Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)

“Queen Lily“, Theodora Goss (Lightspeed 11/18)

“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth“, Daryl Gregory (Tor.com 9/19/18)

“Quality Time”, Ken Liu (Robots vs Fairies)

“How to Swallow the Moon“, Isabel Yap (Uncanny 11–12/18)

SHORT STORY

“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington“, Phenderson Djèlí Clark (Fireside 2/18)

“The Bookcase Expedition”, Jeffrey Ford (Robots vs Fairies)

“STET“, Sarah Gailey (Fireside 10/18)

“A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies“, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/6/18)

“Cuisine des Mémoires”, N.K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)

“The Storyteller’s Replacement”, N.K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)

“Firelight“, Ursula K. Le Guin (Paris Review Summer ’18)

“The Starship and the Temple Cat“, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/1/18)

“Mother of Invention“, Nnedi Okorafor (Future Tense)

“The Court Magician“, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 1/18)

ANTHOLOGY

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)

The Book of Magic, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)

Worlds Seen in Passing, Irene Gallo, ed. (Tor.com Publishing)

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, N.K. Jemisin & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)

Robots vs Fairies, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Twelve, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Infinity’s End, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

The Underwater Ballroom Society, Tiffany Trent & Stephanie Burgis, eds. (Five Fathoms)

The Future Is Female!, Lisa Yaszek, ed. (Library of America)

COLLECTION

The Tangled Lands, Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell (Saga)

Brief Cases, Jim Butcher (Ace; Orbit UK)

An Agent of Utopia, Andy Duncan (Small Beer)

How Long ’til Black Future Month?, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

The Dinosaur Tourist, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)

Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)

All the Fabulous Beasts, Priya Sharma (Undertow)

The Future Is Blue, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)

STARLINGS, Jo Walton (Tachyon)

HOW TO FRACTURE A FAIRY TALE, Jane Yolen (Tachyon)

MAGAZINE

Analog

Asimov’s

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Clarkesworld

F&SF

Fireside

Lightspeed

Strange Horizons

Tor.com

Uncanny

PUBLISHER

Angry Robot

Baen

DAW

Gollancz

Orbit

Saga

Small Beer

Subterranean

Tachyon

Tor

EDITOR

John Joseph Adams

Neil Clarke

Ellen Datlow

Gardner Dozois

C.C. Finlay

Jonathan Strahan

Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Ann & Jeff VanderMeer

Sheila Williams

Navah Wolfe

ARTIST

Kinuko Y. Craft

Galen Dara

Julie Dillon

Leo & Diane Dillon

Bob Eggleton

Victo Ngai

John Picacio

Shaun Tan

Charles Vess

Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, Michael Benson (Simon & Schuster)

Sense of Wonder: Short Fiction Reviews (2009-2017), Gardner Dozois (ReAnimus)

Strange Stars, Jason Heller (Melville House)

Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz)

Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, Ursula K. Le Guin & David Naimon (Tin House)

Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility, Alexis Lothian (NYU Press)

Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, Catherine McIlwaine, ed. (Bodleian Library)

Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Alec Nevala-Lee (Dey Street)

None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer, Benjamin J. Robertson (University of Minnesota Press)

An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000, Jo Walton (Tor)

ART BOOK

Yoshitaka Amano, Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography – Beyond the Fantasy, Florent Gorges (Les Éditions Pix’n Love 2015; Dark Horse)

Spectrum 25: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)

John Howe, A Middle-earth Traveler: Sketches from Bag End to Mordor (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; HarperCollins UK)

Jeffrey Alan Love, The Thousand Demon Tree (Flesk)

Simon Stålenhag, The Electric State (Fria Ligan ’17; Skybound)

Shaun Tan, Cicada (Lothian; Levine ’19)

Charles Vess, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)

Michael Whelan, Beyond Science Fiction: The Alternative Realism of Michael Whelan (Baby Tattoo)

Dungeons & Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History, Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, & Sam Witwer (Ten Speed)

Lisbeth Zwerger, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling (Levine)

For more info on UNHOLY LAND, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Sarah Anne Langton

For more info on THE FREEZE-FRAME REVOLUTION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info on STARLINGS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on HOW TO FRACTURE A FAIRY TALE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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endicott

1927

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ending left

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* Neverending White Lights[6]

* Old Self & Kam Speech

* Organ Thieves[9]

* Other Lives[4]

* Ben Ottewell[4]

* Doug Paisley[4]

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* Pilot Speed (formerly Pilate)[6]

* Joel Plaskett[6]

* Port O'Brien[4]

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* Radiohead[6]

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* Rodrigo y Gabriela[4]

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* The River and The Road[10]

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* SOJA[4]

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* Thought Beneath Film[5]

* Two Gallants[4]

* Typhoon[5]

* David Usher[6]

* Butch Walker[5]

* Martha Wainwright[6]

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* Widespread Panic[4]

* Wildcat! Wildcat![5]

* Jonathan Wilson[5]

* Andrew Wyatt[5]

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allegaeon

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the butterfly effect

lee kernaghan

the angels

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ratcat

the lucifer device

jon english

pete murray

city calm down

the presets

hunters & collectors

redgum

the living end

dear enemy

the potbelleez

taxiride

rolf harris

ted mulry gang

hilltop hoods

the relapse symphony

farewell, my love

secrets

the acacia strain

weir

MODELS

shannon noll

eurogliders

havana brown

christine anu

sam sparro

leonardo's bride

havana next stop

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tina arena

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amy meredith

deadstar

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mental as anything

ben lee

the androids

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ferrets

amiel

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reece mastin

the seekers

little pattie

little red

wendy matthews

selwyn

rick price

real life

circle

flash n the pan

human nature

kate ceberano

mark "diesel" lizotte

alex lloyd

jo jo zep & the falcons

kate miller heidke

taylor henderson

euphoria

killing heidi

jacob collier

upon this dawning

miss may i

the ghost inside

our last night

nick cave & the bad seeds

faker

zoë badwi

augie march

johnny ashcroft

grinspoon

the triffids

sunnyboys

lenka

peking duk

nathaniel

boom crash opera

bobby & laurie

*

* Alma

* Aviator Lane

* Batrider

* Black Mountain

* Black Nielson

* Boddicker

* C.W. Stoneking

* Co-Pilgrim

* Disaster Plan

* Dishpan Fingers

* Elf Power

* Finishing School

* Fonda 500

* Fotomoto

* Ghosty

* Goldrush

* Homescience

* Ill Bravados

* Jacob S. Harris

* Jape Squad

* Kim Salmon & The Surrealists

* Legends of Motorsport

* Lilys

* Line Drawings

* Margins

* Matt Banham

* Mid State Orange

* New Estate

* New Pants

* No Through Road

* Of Montreal

* Okkervil River

* Oneironaut

* Papermoon

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* Royal City

* Russian Roulettes

* Sailboats Are White

* Sam Isaac

* Screamfeeder

* Season

* Serena Maneesh

* Shannon McArdle

* Sharko

* Sime Nugent

* Simon Llewelyn Evans

* Sneeze

* the bell jar

* Sonoi

* Souls On Board

* SubAudible Hum

* Thalia Zedek Band

* The Backfeed Slumber

* The Bites

* The Ca$inos

* The Delicates

* The Essex Green

* The Ladybug Transistor

* The Loch Ness Mouse

* The Mendoza Line

* The Minders

* The Parkas

* The Smallgoods

* The Sound Platform

* The Specimens

* The Steinbecks

* The Super Wolfgang

* The Wells Collective

* THE WHATS

* The Zebras

* Tim Steward

* TimeZones

* Trans Am

* Tucker B's

* Warped

* We All Want To

joel turner

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bluejuice

slim newton

you am i

machinations

the plot in you

28 days

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hilltop hoods

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sheppard

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pendulum

the master's apprentices

adam brand

little river band

chet faker

blackfeather

the veronicas

the monitors

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jimmy barnes

the cockroaches

christie allen

jebediah

timomatic

kids in the kitchen

operator please

wedding parties anything

bullamakanka

invertigo

garnet rogers

royal blood

kula shaker

slade

the creation

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pepper

james royal

brian auger &the trinity

the james taylor quartet

james taylor's 4th dimension

brian auger trinity

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tumblewild

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ian skelly and the serpent power

tom morello

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[grossmag]

A few photos from @dawestheband performing at @thefillmoresf-blog presented by @noisepopsf

Covered by GRØSS Magazine

Dawes shook the chandeliers of The Fillmore last night as one of the headlining acts for the Noise Pop festival. Promoting their latest album “We're All Gonna Die,” this group of good looking & goofy guys played for nearly two and a half hours with no opening act. “We left the openers at home, we got greedy on this tour,” frontman Taylor Goldsmith told the crowd. “We are on a mission, we are trying to be the hardest working band in America,” he said laughing. . Words by Grady Olson

[anythingstephenking]

The newest weight loss craze is… Gypsy curses!

After pounding through (phrasing) The Talisman, it was 10am on a Sunday and the forecast was calling for rain. So I set out to bake some sourdough (it takes 8 hours start to finish, that’s how much I love carbs) and settled in with Thinner.

So Thinner is the book that ended Richard Bachman in 1985. I’ve told the story of my pal, super nerd Steve Brown, but after having read 5 Bachmans, I wish I could find good ol’ Steve and plant a big ol’ kiss right on his lips. If Stevie hadn’t cracked that code for a few more years, I might be in the fetal position with more Bachman to read. Thank you Steve, Thank you.

All said and done, after King was outed and Bachman died of “cancer of the pseudonym” (as King was quoted), Thinner was the last published Bachman for a while. Eventually we’ll get to The Regulators (published in 1996) and it’s twin, Blaze (published in 2007) but we’ve got a long and winding road of books between here and there. And that makes me so very happy.

Like most King, the story begins in his own life. Weighing in one day at 236, his doc told him to lose some weight. I’m speculating that the weight gain had something to do with his alcoholism, but I’m not sure when King stopped drinking and maybe he just liked bread as much as me and Oprah. He lost the weight, but griped that he didn’t have a choice in the matter, and there, the idea for Thinner was born. Why he chose this story to publish as Bachman, I don’t know, but ultimately the similarities of this story to King’s own was too close for ol’ sleuthin’ mc sluetherson, Steve Brown.

To be fair, I didn’t hate Thinner as much as other Bachman novels. It was the first with a supernatural element, which is a plus for me. The protagonist was actually not a terrible dude. Well until the end. Much like  Ben Richards in The Running Man, he was kinda a dick, but not on the same level as, lets say, Barton Dawes or :::shudder::: Charlie Decker.

Billy Halleck is your run of the mill American suburban guy. He lives in Connecticut, is a lawyer, overweight, and has his vices, much like most of us do. His take the form of Doritos and Budweisers. I like bread and white wine. I get it. His wife nags (why does the wife always have to “nag”??) him to eat better, but she doesn’t really ever do much besides scold him. Typical wife stuff. Sigh.

So, Billy wins a big court case and goes out to celebrate. On the way home, his wife gives him a handy while he’s driving. We’ve all been there, right? Just kidding, I haven’t. And he accidentally plows over an old lady who was, to his credit, jaywalking at night.

All of mens downfalls fall squarely on women giving them handys when they’re not suppose to, amiright?

(Fair warning - I don’t always do straight up plot summaries, but I’m going to on this guy and spoil the ending. Fair warning on a 33 year old spoiler.)

So Billy gets off on vehicular manslaughter because he’s a white guy that lives in Connecticut. Seriously. Apparently the Judge grabbed his wife’s tit once at a party and I guess that means he owes Billy one? Jesus Christ. The local police chief testifies Bill was sober, the case is dismissed, and everyone goes back to their TV sets.

Except, the old lady’s dad, who is clocking in at 106 years (seriously, what’s his secret? tell me it’s bread) decides to put a curse on our pal Billy. He places his hand on Billy’s cheek outside the courtroom and whispers…. thinner. Yeah, that’s the name of the book alright.

Now I’m realizing I’m making Billy sound like a monster. And in hindsight maybe he was. But I truly didn’t hate him through this book. He was losing 5lbs a day for weeks, wasting away to nothing. He was scared. I felt bad for him, mostly.

Billy is dropping pounds left and right, and at first everyone around him is amazed. He’s not, as the gypsy’s words linger in his mind and he’s rightfully terrified. But now that he’s thin, his wife wants to have all kinds of hot sex with him and he’s loving every minute of that part. Ok, maybe he is kinda terrible.

Once he starts to look emaciated, he’s off to the doctors and clinics (by order of his nagging wife, of course) which does nothing. He finds out the tit-grabbing judge is slowing turning into a lizard, and the police chief has boils all over his skin. Cool. He’s off in search of the gypsy to take the curse off.

He calls in the help of his mobster friend from New Jersey, who runs an italian restaurant. Can’t make these stereotypes up, folks. They find the gypsies and basically scare the shit of out them until the old man decides to agree to remove the curse. There’s some pretty fun cat-and-mouse and mobster stuff in the back half of this book that help make it a quick read.

The gypsy removes the curse but under one condition - the curse now lives in a pie (serious), and Billy has to make someone eat the pie to pass the curse along. It’s like It Follows, but with pie instead of sex. Give it to the guy from American Pie and kill two birds with one stone I say.

So Billy heads home, to give the pie to his wife. Yup, his nagging wife whose handy was what got him here in the first place. He legit blamed her and thought she deserved to die. This was when I gave up on Billy. I’m not sure what I would do in that situation, but I certainly wouldn’t do that.

Turns our Billy’s daughter (think I forgot to mention her, my bad) comes home early and while Billy is asleep, shares a piece of pie with her mom. Billy awakes to find they’ve both eaten the pie and hates himself. Very little sympathy for ya there bud. The book ends as he lifts the pie plate and takes a bite, sealing his fate with his family. You’re still an asshole, Billy.

First Line: “Thinner” the old Gypsy man with the rotting nose whispered to William Halleck as Halleck and his wife Heidi come out of the courthouse.

Last Line: “Eat hearty” Bill Halleck whispered in the sunny silence of the kitchen, and cut himself a piece of Gypsy pie.

5/10

Adaptations

Good lawd, this movie.

Thinner was made in 1996. By then, there had been 22 original King feature films. TWENTY TWO! That’s not counting sequels, tv movies or short films. Y’all, these were some bad movies. Cat’s Eye. The Running Man. Maximum Overdrive. Children of the Corn. The Mangler. Murky Waters. That last one isn’t actually a King movie, but you don’t know because you haven’t seen any of these. Even I haven’t been able to make myself watch some of these.

The initial fascination after Carrie and The Shining had wained. King’s most successful movies in the 80s - 90s (Stand By Me, Shawshank) were decidedly un-King-like. There were some redeeming tales of horror (Pet Semetery and Misery) but mostly there were a whole lot of turd burgers.

Thinner was made on a modest 17 million budget, and barely made it back at the box office. My favorite part of this story is that the initial screen tests showed that audiences hated the ending, and so they “fixed” it by making it so. much. worse. The movie ends with Billy poisoning his family, then rather than kill himself, he choses to murder his wife’s maybe-lover with the killer pie instead. Great stuff.

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. This movie features tons of people I know fondly as other characters. Billy is played by who I know as Bart Bass of Gossip Girl fame. He plays Billy with all the subtly and voice acting of Christian Bale’s Batman. He was bad in the book but he’s a monster in the movie; constantly shoving food into his face and calling his wife a bitch. Not getting any sympathy points from me Bart.

The gypsy is played by the dad from My Big Fat Greek Wedding that just wants to spray windex on everything and drink ouzo. I love him! He’s got Billy Crystal in The Princess Bride makeup on and it’s just dreadful. 

The chief is played by Chief Grady from Super Troopers, and his part is small and I can only picture him saying “I’m going to pistol whip the next guy that says shenanigans!”

The only redeeming character is Joe Mantegna as Billy mobster friend, who lays on the New Jersey mobster schtick as smooth as butter.

This movie being made well requires realistic rapid weight loss. Although the guy that played Billy lost 20 pounds for the role, it was not nearly enough to be believable. He spent the first half in a terrible fat suit which I was saddened to learn was made by the same special effects team as Mrs. Doutfire. This guy wasn’t even Tobias Funke as Mrs. Featherbottom believable. The second half of the film prosthetics are applied to make him look skinny but he just looks like droopy dog.

I’d see this movie again as a midnight feature you could yell at and throw popcorn at the screen.

Y’all, I have Skeleton Crew next, which is more short stories. After ranting about bad King movies, I was happy to learn that only one film, Frank Darabont directed The Mist, was birthed from Skeleton Crew. Thank goodness.

[shining-red-diamond]

ATEEZ x OC Profiles

A/N: This will be updated when needed.

Dahae

Self-Introduction

Full Name: Jo Da Hae

Birthday: July 6, 1998

Hometown: Seoul, South Korea

Height: 5’3

Nationality: Korean

Hair: Black

Eyes: Brown

S/O: Hongjoong (married December 9, 2022)

-She met Hongjoong when they were 16 and in high school and had been together ever since.

-She has a mom, dad, and an older sister.

-Dahae can speak English.

-She’s currently works as a vet tech.

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Grace-Anne

Self-Introduction

Full Name: Grace-Anne Talia Dawes

Birthday: October 15, 1998

Hometown: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Height: 5’4

Nationality: American

Hair: Dark Brown

Eyes: Brown

S/O: Seonghwa (married November 28, 2022)

-She has a mom, dad, and older sister.

-She has a tattoo on her left rib that says “Shine bright like a diamond”

-Grace-Anne is part Middle Eastern on her mother’s side.

-She works as a pediatrics nurse.

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Phoebe

Full Name: Phoebe Jocelyn Daniels

Birthday: January 10, 1999

Hometown: Tyler, Texas, USA

Height: 5’4

Nationality: American

Hair: Blonde

Eyes: Blue

S/O: Yeosang (married March 12, 2023)

-She and Yeosang met when she was on a school trip to Seoul in early 2018.

-She had been raised by her grandparents since she was two.

-She loves books. Her favorite is Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

-Phoebe studied English Literature.

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Celestia

Self-Introduction

Full Name: Celestia Joy Wilcox

Birthday: May 7, 1999

Hometown: Sugarland, Texas, USA

Height: 5’3

Nationality: American

Hair: Red

Eyes: Blue

S/O: San (married August 19, 2022)

Children: Ava Choi (May 25, 2023)

-She studied Theatre Arts and Music.

-She has a mom, dad, an older brother, and an older sister.

-She met San when ATEEZ were in LA in 2018.

-She currently works from home.

-Some of her theatre roles include Anna (Frozen), Christine (Phantom of the Opera), Glinda (The Wizard of Oz), and Mrs. Potts (Beauty and the Beast).

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Taeran

Full Name: Kim Tae Ran

Birthday: June 24, 1999

Hometown: Seoul, South Korea

Height: 5’3

Nationality: Korean

Hair: Black

Eyes: Brown

S/O: Mingi (married June 3, 2023)

-She has a mom, dad, an older brother, and a younger brother.

-Taeran can play the guitar.

-She has a tattoo of a lion’s face on her shoulder blade.

-She collects old guitar picks and makes necklaces out of them.

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Dinah

Self-Introduction

Full Name: Dinah Ruth Grady

Birthday: June 27, 1999

Hometown: Galveston, Texas, USA

Height: 5’6

Nationality: American

Hair: Auburn

Eyes: Green

S/O: Wooyoung (married April 16, 2023)

-Dinah has a mom, dad, two younger brothers, and a younger sister.

-She has six tattoos.

-She’s studied Biology and Theatre Arts.

-She’s only two inches shorter than Wooyoung, but sometimes she looks much shorter.

[grossmag]

Dawes shook the chandeliers of The Fillmore last night as one of the headlining acts for the Noise Pop festival. Promoting their latest album “We're All Gonna Die,” this group of good looking & goofy guys played for nearly two and a half hours with no opening act. “We left the openers at home, we got greedy on this tour,” frontman Taylor Goldsmith told the crowd. “We are on a mission, we are trying to be the hardest working band in America,” he said laughing. . Words by Grady Olson . . @thefillmore @dawesband @noisepop @dothebay @gradythekid (at The Fillmore)