Author Archive
Monday, December 1st, 2008
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
[Hello, readers! I hope all of you (at least, in the US) had a great Thanksgiving weekend! Now we're back to our regular review schedule.]
Margaret Atwood doesn’t write science fiction or speculative fiction; that, of course, is a genre, and what she writes is high lee-tra-cha. Yeah, whatever. A book set in a near-future dystopia [...]
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Armageddon Summer, by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville
Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville are, separately, two very important children’s fantasists. Ms. Yolen has written hundreds of books for children of all different ages, plus a handful of books intended for adults. One of her novels, Briar Rose, was a “Fairy Tales” series novel, like Tanith Lee’s White as Snow, and Pamela Dean’s Tam [...]
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Indigara, by Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee, born in England and married to fellow author and creator John Kaiine, has published such an incredible amount of books in her many years of publishing that sometimes it’s a little difficult to know where to start. She has written a handful of books for YAs, most notably the Unicorn series (Black Unicorn, [...]
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
The Decoy Princess, by Dawn Cook
I don’t know anything about Dawn Cook at all, biographically, because it isn’t available on the internet. She has apparently published six books, four in the “Truth” series and two “Princess” books, of which this is the first one. The first “Truth” book, The Hidden Truth, is the first book she ever wrote; she spent [...]
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is pretty famous on the internet. He’s originally Canadian, although he may live in the U.S., where he writes full-time, between BoingBoing.net and his fictional endeavors, and he is much sought-after as a lecturer and speaker on various topics relating to copyright/copyleft, intellectual property, the internet, and science fiction. He’s written four novels [...]
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Psychological Methods to Sell Must Be Destroyed: Stories, by Robert Freeman Wexler
Robert Freeman Wexler contacted me after seeing my review of Song of Time by Ian MacLeod; he was the designer for that book, and had apparently liked my review of it. In addition to being a book designer, he writes. This work is a chapbook, a smallish book of about 64 pages with a paper [...]
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Roo’d, by Joshua Klein
Joshua Klein describes himself as a “mobile, personal, and future technology specialist,” which, when it’s at home, means he’s a computer guy. (Does that make me a printed-word — past, present, and future — specialist?) In any case, he wrote this book and decided to release it under a Creative Commons license; it’s apparently never [...]
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
The Winter Oak, by James Hetley
James Hetley is the author of The Summer Country, as well as this volume and a couple of books with titles starting with “Dragon.” Last time, I found out that he had been a karate instructor and a trash collector, in addition to a member of the United States Army; he is also apparently a [...]
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
The Bewitching Season, by Marissa Doyle
Marissa Doyle is a Massachusetts resident and has been nearly her entire life; she likes to quilt, and loves both water and history. The Bewitching Season is her first published novel, but she’s got a second one, Maiden Voyage, a sequel, coming out in the not-too-distant future. She describes her work as “historical and romantic [...]
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
The Moonstone, by Marilee Brothers
Marilee Brothers grew up in and currently resides in central Washington state, and from what I can tell, she loves it there. The Moonstone is her second novel, and it’s set there; not only that, but Allie and her story live in the same area as Ms. Brothers. Apparently she is outnumbered by the males [...]
