When this book came out 6 years ago, I kind of missed it. I never got around to picking it up and reading it. Now, after the 4th Edition of D&D has come out, I have finally picked it up from the library and read it. Continue reading →
Category Archives: Books
Book Review: The Dragon and the Stars
I stared at her, wondering how I had come to suspect she was a shape-shifting fox demon. Was it like human rights, something that existed if enough people in the country believed in it? When I returned to America, would I still think she might be a demon?
–Urania Fung, “The Right to Eat Decent Food”
Looking to read something a little different in SF and fantasy? The Dragon and the Stars features eighteen (in Chinese lore, a lucky number) new tales written by English-speaking writers of Chinese ancestry.
Frank Frazetta dies at age of 82
ComicsBeat.com has confirmed that Frank Frazetta, classic fantasy artist has died at the age of 82 of a stroke in a hospital near his home. Continue reading →
Novel Review: The Windup Girl
Peak oil is long past, the Age of Expansion has ended, bioengineering has imperiled the food supply, and revolution moils in Thailand.
Paolo Bacigalupi established himself as a writer to watch with his short fiction, and his first novel, a sprawling political tale set in a steam-biopunk future, has drawn considerable attention, a 2010 Hugo nomination, and varying reviews. One more follows.
Novel Review: Boneshaker
After establishing herself as a Southern Gothic writer (though she’s written a number of SF short stories), Cherie Priest turns her attention to several proposed works set in what she calls the “Clockwork Century.” The Civil War continues for decades, airships rule the skies, and something horrific has been unleashed out west. A Hugo-nominated steampunk adventure-fantasy-alternate history with zombies, mad scientists, and pirates should be fun, right?
Podiobook Review: 7th Son Trilogy
It’s been awhile, but I’m back with some new Podiobook reviews for my fellow Bureaucrats. Today, I review one of the most popular on Podiobooks.com, the 7th Son trilogy by J.C. Hutchins.
If you’re unfamiliar with Podiobooks, I wrote up a short summary back when I reviewed Quarter Share
Novel Review: World Made by Hand
James Howard Kunstler has written insightful analyses of the inefficient and asinine ways we organize our cities, made problematic predictions about disasters which (thus far) have not happened, and widely disseminated the idea we’ve reached Peak oil. He sets the fictional World Made by Hand, published in 2008, in a post-peak-energy future.
Book Review: The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold’s debut novel sold like, well, every writer wants the debut novel to sell. Peter Jackson’s film adaptation opens this weekend. Both tell the tale of a young victim of a murder-rape who follows the threads of lives that unravel after her death, from her problematic place in the afterworld.
We welcome comments on the book and film here.
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Novel Review: Julian Comstock
Robert Charles Wilson has established a reputation as one of the age’s finest science-fiction writers, but also as a fine, literary author, whose spin on our possible future reaches a broad and intelligent audience of readers. Julian Comstock, released last summer, may be his finest work to date.
Novel Review: The Road
This is a review of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, not the current, long-delayed Hollywood adaptation. However, until we get a review of the movie, it makes an excellent place to discuss both book and film.