A number of this year’s nominees have been reviewed here at the Bureau. Any bets on who’ll win the awards, next week in Yokohama?
Reviewed here:
Novel
Glasshouse
Dramatic Presentation: Long Form
Children of Men
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Prestige
A Scanner Darkly
V for Vendetta
Dramatic Presentation: Short Form
Battlestar Galactica: Downloaded
Doctor Who: School Reunion
Doctor Who: Army of Ghosts
Doctor Who: Girl in the Fireplace
Blindsight
NOVEL
# Blindsight, Peter Watts (Tor)
I’ve read this one, it’s good. http://www.rifters.com/
If you liked Alastair Reynolds’ Revelation Space, you’ll like this one too. Weird main characters, gritty world, no magic soul nonsense.
Re: Blindsight
One caveat – it’s DARK. Damn dark, and bleak. Darker than Iain Banks’ stuff. Good, but be forewarned.
Re: Blindsight
Also, this is not an easy read. At all. It can be quite hard to figure out what’s going on if you aren’t careful. It shares the same htinks with RevSpace as described above, but the similarities end there.