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I’d originally bought this book for my sister-in-law, mostly because I wanted to read something by Alastair Reynolds and I’d be able to read it after she was finished. Reynolds is a relatively new U.K. author that’s been lauded for revitalizing space opera. After my sister-in-law read it, I asked her how she liked it. […]
Category Archives: SF/F Books
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.
When I decided I needed to read the very first Honor Harrington book, I picked it up for reading while on a trip. I needed the distraction, since the purpose of our trip was to attend my father-in-law’s funeral. Based upon the comments made by characters in following books, I expected to see Honor when […]
Mario Acevedo is a fairly new Colorado author. I think it was the 2006 Pikes Peak Writers (PPW) conference where Editor Diana Gill said the opening lines of his book were so great that she had to read it and eventually make an offer to a first-time novelist: “I don’t like what Operation Iraqi Freedom […]
My sister-in-law owns every Miles Vorkosigan novel, but up to this point, I’d only read Komarr. While looking over her collection, I was examining how speculative fiction authors use humor and she thrust A Civil Campaign at me, saying, “This one’s so funny that it kept me up at night and I had problems keeping […]
This is the sequel to Hammered, which I read a few years ago. I had been intrigued by Ms. Bear’s protagonist Jenny Casey: she was prior military, older (~50), and scarred emotionally and physically. Her military career had nearly been life-ending and she’d lost an arm — but the military saved her from a nightmarish […]
Stross’s world is a unique blend of Lovecraft-ian monsters, computer science, and British secret service noir. From a strict categorical perspective, which no one takes these days, it’s a blend of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It’s so clever that many an SF/F author probably beat themselves with the now-why-didn’t-I-think-of-that stick while reading it. The theory […]