William Gibson made his name with the cyberpunk trilogy, written in the 1980s and set in the twenty-first century. Since the twenty-first century increasingly looks like something from a Gibson cyberpunk novel, he has been setting his recent work in the present. This novel follows Pattern Recognition. Although the two works share some characters, references, and plot elements, this is not in the usual sense a sequel.
Category Archives: Books
Terry Pratchett diagnosed with Alzheimer’s
According to the Web site of Paul Kidby, the artist for most of the Discworld series, author Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with “a very rare form of early
onset Alzheimer’s.”
Wheel of Time series to be completed
chad writes, Tor Books has selected Brandon Sanderson to complete the late Robert Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” series. In the last few months of his life, Jordan devoted a significant amount of time to the 12th and final volume, A Memory of Light, and he left “copious notes and hours of audio recordings.”
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Novel Review: A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge won his third Hugo for best novel with last year’s Rainbows End. His first he received in 1993 for his neo-space opera, A Fire Upon the Deep (It actually tied with Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book). With attention once again on Vinge, we’re reviewing that novel now.
Book Review: Rainbows End
“You live in a time that thinks it can ignore the human condition.”
Rainbows End took the Hugo– Vinge’s fifth– for best novel at WorldCon last August. It’s a strong entry, but arguably not Vinge’s best work.
Novel Review: Bitten
Kelley Armstrong‘s most recent
novel, No Humans Involved
achieved mainstream bestseller status, and movie rights have been purchased for some of her works. I plan eventually to review the entire series. It begins with this novel, Armstong’s take on lycanthropy.
Robert Jordan Dies
chad writes, Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel Of Time series, passed away yesterday.
Madeleine L’Engle dead at 88
chad writes, Madeleine L’Engle, beloved children’s author, died Thursday at the age of 88. I will never forget “A Wrinkle in Time,” and I read quite a few of her other books as well–including the sequels to “Wrinkle” and the Austin family books.
Voices for the Cure
Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick, Cory Doctorow, Lucy A. Snyder, and others have contributed to Voices for the Cure, an anthology of speculative fiction which benefits the American Diabetes Association.
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Review: Sparks and Shadows
Lucy Snyder has published a number of stories, mostly in the horror, fantasy, and SF genres. Her humour piece, “How to Install Linux on a Dead Badger” was once slashdotted. Sparks and Shadows collects short stories, creative non-fiction, and poetry.