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Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
Yes, this is a terrific book but my God the Culture are a pack of pricks.
Read MoreI Am Providence by Nick Mamatas
I am Providence is a terrific novel. It’s a murder mystery set at a Lovecraft convention. This might sound cringeworthy at first, the sort of book open to all sorts of shitty stereotypes, but works beautifully because...
Read MoreBook Review: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Translated by Ken Liu)
What’s It About It’s an alien invasion novel that features the Cultural Revolution, a computer game that incorporates the entirety of Western and Eastern scientific thought and a series of jaw dropping set pieces. Representative...
Read MoreBook Review: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
What’s It About Maia is the only son of the fourth wife of the Emperor of the Elflands. Following his mother’s premature death, the Emperor (not the most loving of fathers) banishes him to a household in the middle of nowhere...
Read MoreBook Review: Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
What’s It About Newly appointed Captain Breq – you may know her from the multi-award winning novel Ancillary Justice - has been given a warship, the Mercy of Kalr, and ordered by Anaander Mianaai, Lord of the Radch – or at...
Read MoreBook Review: The Dark Between the Stars by Kevin J. Anderson
What’s It About I only read a third of the novel, but apparently it’s set twenty years after the 7-novels that form The Saga of the Seven Suns. So it’s both a Book One and a Book Eight. Representative Paragraph Because...
Read MoreNebula Award Novel Shortlist
The Nebula Award nominees have been announced (click on the link for the full list). For the novel category, this is what the SFWA members chose: The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor) Trial by Fire, Charles E. Gannon...
Read MoreBook Review: A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
Here’s a description of the novel from the Small Beer website: Jevick, the pepper merchant’s son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home—but which his...
Read MoreBook Review: The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman
Here’s an edited version of the Goodreads’ description (which might also be the actual blurb… I don’t know I read the ebook). Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a...
Read MoreReview: Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks
Goodreads figures: 15506 ratings at an average of 3.87 So I’m reading Martin Lewis’ blog (Everything Is Nice) and he’s ripping into Hartwell and Cramer’s introduction of a Gregory Benford story.* During...
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