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Every now and then, I try to pick up a classic SF novel. This one was published in the year I was born (hmm—let’s not make a big deal about its age, okay?) and I hadn’t read it. I picked it because it’s obviously memorable; it’s always brought up by other SF readers (you’ve read […]
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Just my two cents on science fiction (SF) and fantasy novels/anthologies I’ve read. Sometimes I comment on the state of publishing SF and fantasy.
My husband won this for me in a drawing at the Ace/Roc presentation at Renovation (World SF Convention in Reno). The front tagline: They called it the New Badlands—Until the vampire came… That was interesting, until I turned it over and read the top blurb. “A great, edgy, fresh twist on paranormal romance. Brilliant!” by […]
I loved the first book in Downum’s Necromancer Chronicles, called The Drowning City, which I covered in this post. This second book was just as impressive, set in a detailed and lush society, with multi-dimensional characters. As with the first book, there are multiple subplots and “games” being played, for very high stakes. All of […]
In preparation for Peter Jackson’s movie, The Hobbit, I decided to pull out Tolkien’s classic children’s tale and re-read it. It’s been two decades since I last read it, because I don’t read this book as frequently as I read Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (LOTR). It was as delightful as I remember and since […]
Pevel’s series will envelope the reader in seventeenth-century Paris, but it’s not our Paris, because here be dragons. If you look these books up on Amazon.com, you may see some snotty comments (I don’t know how else to describe them) which say, “This is just The Three Musketeers with dragons.” No, it isn’t. Brush off […]
I am in awe of China Miéville’s world-building talents. His SF presents concepts and ideas that are thought-provoking, engaging, and just plain impressive (in the “I wish I could have come up with this” category). However, I wish he would put as much effort and ingenuity into his story and character motivations. More on that […]