Welcome to Smugglivus 2012! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2012, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2013. Who: Jared and Anne, the team that runs the fantabulous Pornokitsch, a blog focused on geek culture – be it books, movies, games, comics, television, or anything in between. Pornokitsch offers serious insight and critical thought – plus they have an annual award, The Kitschies, which rewards intelligent, progressive and entertaining fiction containing speculative or fantastic elements. Needless to say, we are huge fans. Please give it up for Jared and Anne, folks! We’re delighted to continue our own personal (slightly contrarian) Smugglivus tradition of celebrating the best undefinable things of the year and the best things that aren’t of the year at all. Confused? (We are too.) The Anne half of us has selected her top moments in 2012 geek culture – the incidents or trends that rocked our genre world. Meanwhile, the Jared half of us has taken a turn to the past, and picked five of his favourite 2012 reads, while carefully avoiding anything actually written in 2012. Jared’s Top 5 […]