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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
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Tag Archives: science fiction
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
Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Relentless Moon
The Relentless Moon is the third book in Mary Robinette Kowal’s series of prequels to her immensely successful novelette The Lady Astronaut of Mars, following on the heels of The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky. Kowal has described it … Continue reading
Roger Zelazny’s Unicorn Variations
I’ve been collecting and reading this author for well over twenty years now. (Today I received A Checklist of Roger Zelazny, a chapbook that Christopher Stephens did in 1991. Bliss — more reading to look forward to!) Even though he … Continue reading
Roger Zelazny’s Roadmarks
Roger Zelazny’s Roadmarks is set upon a road that travels through time, with a nexus placed every few decades, or sometimes centuries, where a handful of people are able to get on and off. While there is a plot involving a … Continue reading