Author Archive
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Guest Review: C. L. Wilson’s Tairen Soul series
(Review by DP.) COULD THIS BE YOU? Did you read the Twilight series, even though the lack of plot and the terrible writing made you secretly hate yourself and weep in the night? Are you now pining, even BURNING, for more gorgeous aloof rich heroes with funny-colored eyes to sweep you away to magical lands [...]
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Touchstone, by Laurie King
Review by DP Laurie R. King is best known for her two long-running mystery series, one set in the England in the Roaring Twenties and starring Mary Russell as Sherlock Holmes’ feminist wife and the other set in modern-day San Francisco and focusing on lesbian detective Kay Martinelli. In addition, King writes the occasional stand-alone [...]
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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, [...]
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The Story of Ping, by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese
Using deft allegory, the authors have provided an insightful and intuitive explanation of one of Unix’s most venerable networking utilities. Even more stunning is that they were clearly working with a very early beta of the program, as their book first appeared in 1933, years (decades!) before the operating system and network infrastructure were finalized. [...]