Longtime reader Erf submitted the following review:
The first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series has been highly recommended to me by a few YA readers I know. With The Lightning Thief, the series is off to a pretty good start.
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No really, we haven’t ever reviewed it before. Seriously. I checked.
Think the vampire has seen its twilight due to over and misuse? Read John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In1. This creepy Swedish novel has made the undead scary again and inspired two film adaptations. We’ll be reviewing both of those in October. Today, we’re examining the novel—and providing a preview of this year’s Halloween Reviews.
1. Låt den rätte komma in, Let Me In
If you have any chemistry or science teachers on your Christmas list, your shopping is done.
Anime News Network has the results of this year’s Seiun Awards. For those who are unfamiliar with the awards, the Seiun Awards (Seiun being the Japanese word for Nebula) are handed out every year at the Nihon SF Taikai (or Japan Science Fiction Convention). Voting is done in a manner similar to the Hugo Awards – voting is open to attendees of the convention. Here’s a link to a Google Translated version of the results, and I’ll have my own list below the cut. The full list of Nominees can be found here. Continue reading →
In a mysterious world of ancient wonders, one man struggles to steal anything that isn’t nailed down.
I’ve sung their praises before, but I’ll do it again, Escape Pod has once again scored the permission to broadcast audio versions of all five Hugo Award Short Story nominees.
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Yes, I’ve been on something of an education kick lately. This time around, I’ve reviewed an advanced text on item response theory, which is the theory that governs the way people respond to questions, whether they be in class questions or surveys.
Regular reader and frequent commenter Erf submitted this review. Erf says, “Many stories have studied the interaction between games and reality. Here’s a take on it by a master writer.”
The always-original China Miéville has won a number of awards and been nominated several times for the Hugo. His latest Hugo nominated-novel, a Kafkaesque fantasy/SF police procedural, takes a hardboiled cop deep into his home city of Besźel, somewhere in Eastern Europe—and into Ul Qoma, which occupies approximately the same geographical space.
He also encounters the secretive forces that maintain the separation between the city and the city.