Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Hunchback, by Randall Wright
At the moment, the only thing I know about Randall Wright is that he has published at least one book. For all I know, he could be the pen-name of a group of bored housewives . . . not that there’s anything wrong with that. From the Macmillan website, though, he appears to be just [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Under the Jolly Roger (Jacky Faber Chronicles, book 3), by L. A. Meyer
Finally, months later, I got around to reading the third book in this series. I reviewed the first two here and here, and apparently I can’t decide on a title for the series. (My draft of this has it called “The Adventures of Jacky Faber.”) In any case, L. A. Meyer is American, male, and [...]
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Worlds of Weber: Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington and Other Stories, by David Weber
Review by DP
Probably best-known for his hard-scifi series starring Honor Harrington, David Weber is a classic science fiction writer of the old school. His stories investigate the ways in which humans are changed by the technology they invent and the new experiences, decisions and possibilities opened to them by the discovery of interstellar travel, artificial [...]
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
The Green Glass Sea, by Ellen Klages
Ellen Klages wrote a short story called “In the House of Seven Librarians” in the Firebirds Rising anthology, edited by Sharyn November. I very much enjoyed this story, but I’m pretty bad at remembering to follow up by looking for books by authors I like in anthologies. However, the clearance rack in used bookstores is [...]
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Raising the Griffin, by Melissa Wyatt
I will buy nearly anything for fifty cents, book-wise. Well, that’s not entirely true; I probably still won’t pick up vast swaths of the non-fiction world, or anything by Danielle Steele. However, the fact that I merely paid fifty cents for this book doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth a lot more. Melissa Wyatt is apparently [...]
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Bloodring (Thorn St. Croix, Book 1), by Faith Hunter
I knew very little about Faith Hunter when I started this book, except the fact that her name sounded like one of her characters. (What? She writes post-Apocalyptic fantasy, and her name is Faith Hunter. Legit, I think.) However, her website has informed me that she was born in the bayou and prefers fishing to [...]
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Twice a Prince (Sasharia En Garde!, book 2), by Sherwood Smith
A month or so ago, I reviewed the first half of this duology, and was awfully mad for not having the second half right away. Well, yesterday it was released (today, as I’m writing this), and of course I purchased it (here) and read it right away. I got it in HTML format, which is [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Corydon and the Island of Monsters, by Tobias Druitt
[Sherwood Smith's Twice a Prince is released today. Hopefully review tomorrow!]
Apparently Tobias Druitt is the pseudonym of Diane Purkiss and Michael Dowling; they’re mother and son. She’s an Oxford tutor (professor-type); he’s thirteen (probably fifteen by now) and supposedly a Child Genius. They have published a trilogy (of the which this is the first book) [...]
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Yarrow, by Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint is one of my favorite authors; I own at least one copy of nearly everything he’s written. (Between Ben and me we have three copies of Moonheart, but that’s a different story.) He’s written at least a little bit in nearly every speculative-fiction genre, but his vast favorite is urban or mythic [...]
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Ubik: the Screenplay, by Philip K. Dick
I had never read anything by Philip K. Dick prior to this work, and it isn’t even actually a novel. In any case, Mr. Dick was a major force in the science fiction field prior to his death in 1982; several of his novels have been made into major motion pictures. These include Minority Report, [...]
