No bones about it: I am a slow reader. Worse, I am a serial book buyer and starter, and years can pass after I buy a book before I actually start it, to say nothing of finish it. Except for anything by Larry Correia. Somehow, Correia has figured out the secret combination to writing novels that […]
6 Reasons To Read More Than One Book at a Time
2014-10-08 · by ·
Long ago I realized that I would never be able to keep up with all the interesting books that get published each year. Heck, I can barely keep up with the stack of books piled up on my bedstead or on my desk, just begging to be opened. But that doesn’t mean there’s not a […]
A Rarefied View at Dawn by David Farland: Holding Up A Mirror
2014-10-07 · by ·
Equally touching, tender, and socially exploratory, A Rarefied View At Dawn by David Farland is a short story that takes place in the far future on a planet far from here. Men and women are segregated by gender and on the mountain top fortress of Kara Kune most births are controlled, allowing only females to […]
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers: Time Travel Done Right
2014-10-02 · by ·
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers is time travel done right. It’s been over thirty years since The Anubis Gates was published, and the story of treachery, time travel, and long dead gods has aged well. But then, what should I have expected? It’s Tim Powers. As I think I saw someone else mention about the […]
Charley in the Wind by David Farland: Heartbreaking But Compelling
2014-10-01 · by ·
Yesterday, I was disappointed with a story written early in David Farland’s career. He’s one of my favorite authors, and I didn’t get why. It was written early in his career, and even by his own admission was a real downer. Then I hit up on this story, another written early in Farland’s career as […]
At The Virgin’s Doorstep by David Farland: Just UGH
2014-09-30 · by ·
Ugh. Just Ugh. At The Virgin’s Doorstep by David Farland is just really bad. It starts out as something of a coming of age story, and then, before you know it, you don’t even want to come of age in this world. Who wants to live in a world that kills unicorns? By decapitation? Including baby […]
Burning Girls by Veronica Schanoes Is Dark and Moving
2014-09-29 · by ·
Every now and then, in the midst of all the dross, you read something that moves you. Veronica Schanoes‘ Burning Girls is just one such story. Set in the late 19th century, Burning Girls is about Deborah, the daughter of Polish Jews in the years after Cossacks stopped burning villages but while the threat of pogroms […]
Ink Readers of Doi Saket by Thomas Heuvelt: A Modern Myth?
2014-09-26 · by ·
The Ink Readers of Doi Saket by Thomas Olde Heuvelt is something different is something different. And, for some reason, it’s a Hugo nominee, too. Near the end of the Mae Ping River in Thailand, a town plays a special role in an annual ritual that runs river long. Villagers will put their wishes in […]
The Water that Falls on You from Nowhere by John Chu is not Scifi
2014-09-25 · by ·
The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere by John Chu is not scifi. Clever, maybe, but Hugo worthy? There’s something clever about this story. Water that falls on you from nowhere…when you are fibbing. The conceit is the narrator is an in the closet gay, at least to his parents, and without the ability […]
25 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time…Maybe
2014-09-24 · by ·
What are the 25 best sci-fi books of all time? In a genre that has constantly evolved since before the days of Mary Shelley, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells (okay, okay… I recognize that the days of Shelley and Verne and Wells are not the same days. Not by a long shot. Let’s just call that the […]
