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Tag Archives: science fiction
Gareth L. Powell’s Stars and Bones
British SF author Powell has begun a new series called Continuance with the action-packed Stars and Bones. It’s packed not just with action but with some intriguing ideas. Powell has created a universe, an FTL travel concept, and a timeline … Continue reading
Neal Asher’s Orbus
Anyone who reads my reviews here at Green Man knows I really do love long SF series where characters and plot can develop at length as the author feels fit. Certainly Asher’s Polity series is one of those as it … Continue reading
Neal Asher’s Brass Man
Here at the Green Man corporate offices, we spend a lot of time in meetings with statistics and pie charts, trying to determine just what exactly it is that we review here. Fantasy, folklore, and a bit of history seems … Continue reading
Patricia A. McKillip’s Fool’s Run
Some folks really shouldn’t write science fiction. If my reading of Fool’s Run is a fair indication, Patricia McKillip is one of those writers. Now before you send me any angry email saying I’m a cruel, heartless reviewer who obviously … Continue reading
Patricia A. McKillip’s The Moon and the Face
In The Moon and the Face, Patricia McKillip revisits Kyreol and Terje from her lovely young adult novel Moon-Flash. Kyreol and Terje, having followed the river to the Dome in book one of this duology, now push beyond the new … Continue reading
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Patricia A. McKillip’s Moon-Flash
It’s quite gratifying to revisit books from one’s childhood. Actually, it can be gratifying or disastrous. I’m pleased to say it was the former for me with Patricia A. McKillip‘s Moon-Flash. Originally published by Argo Books in 1984, Moon-Flash is … Continue reading
Iain M. Banks’s The Player of Games
The Player of Games was Iain M. Banks’ second novel of The Culture, originally published in 1988. It already has many of the hallmarks of his truly spectacular later Culture books like Matter and Surface Detail, although the plot is … Continue reading
Jo Walton’s An Informal History of the Hugos
Do you like reading what other people have to say about books? I know, silly question, because here you are reading a book review in a blog dedicated to book, music and other reviews. That makes it easy for me … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, reference works, science fiction
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James H. Schmitz’ Agent of Vega and Other Stories
A while back, Baen Books reissued the stories of James H. Schmitz, concentrating on the cycle centered around the Hub and the adventures of Trigger Argee and Telzy Amberdon, super-heroines who are somewhere between Barbie and Wonder Woman. We’ve also … Continue reading
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Tagged science fiction, short fiction
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Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves
Neal Stephenson starts his big books in one of two ways. Either slowly with a lot of character introductions and scene setting (Reamde) or with a bang, hurling you headlong into the action such that the first time you come … Continue reading