Think I’ve been back in Colorado about . … twelve hours, this month? So, light pickings here. Read a few books, but none of them are out yet, or even have covers. Mostly been A) writing a novel in between things, and B) writing and editing and hacking on comic scripts. I did rewatch the Baywatch remake on a plane, for happiness, but it’s probably already in this list, in some way previous year. Still? I feel like I’ve forgotten to crib a thing or two down. But, they’re in my head and my he…

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for me. Didn’t think to do this until listening to Shock Waves‘ top 10 of the decade, but I guess it was a decade already somehow. So, in no order, and including honorable mentions (with my favorite being of course Cabin), and, it looks like, not quite sticking to even the loosest definition of “ten,” here’s mine:

Just like last year, I had this idea that doing a monthly post would make it a snap to figure out my best of the years: just scroll through, it’ll be obvious. I wish. Though it does make it easier to remember stuff from before summer, say. So, without further whatever, and by category, and including stuff I only FOUND in 2019, and just going plural for some instead of staging ties:

NOVELS

HORROR MOVIE

This paste-in isn’t going to be as bulletpoint-neat as before, with quotation marks and titles. But that’s just because I skipped a month of posting these, so they kind of built up, became a job. Anyway, for some reason some embeds create blank space right after them, which is kind of unkillable. Sorry for the weirdlookingness, and the occasional bulletpoint for what would seem to be no reason, but really that’s the only way to keep the link from trying, and …

• “How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?“
• “‘Oldest remains’ outside Africa reset human migration clock“
• “Paul Tremblay Is Horror’s Newest Big Thing“
• “skeleton of glass and marmelade“
• “Ancient DNA extracted from Neanderthal fossils of Gibraltar for the first time“
• “Remains of 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement unearthed outside Jerusalem“
• “In Which

Usually don’t put words in these, but this is the first for the year, and this year’s going to look different. Not just the running title (different titles make them easier to search), but how movie and tv heavy these’ll all likely be for at least the first half of the year. Because? Reading for the World Fantasy Awards, but shouldn’t really be saying what’s my favorite books and stories and novellas and whatnot. Result: movie and tv heavy best-…

Which is going to be a movie/TV-heavy list, for the first time ever. Not because my tastes or habits changed—fiction on the page is still and always where it’s at for me—but because, since I’m now judging for the World Fantasy Awards for 2018, it would feel a bit . . . weird and unclassy, I guess, to be saying what my favorite books of the year are.

However, I can slap a couple of novels up here that in no way could get submitted for a World Fantasy Award. So:

Novels

Laird…

 …

Every year when I cobble together some best-of-the-year list from half-remembered this and that, I always end up remembering stuff from the last few months instead of the whole year, and feeling like that’s all unfair. So, in an effort to work around that, and trusting that I actually come back and LOOK at this in five months, but mostly because I’m just now thinking of it, here’s my favorites so far:

Comic Book:

Everything here is just working so well: the wo…