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This read took no time at all

A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeliene L'Engle (Author), Hope Larson (Illustrator)

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I admit that I only picked this up because I was looking for something to fit the “Not My Wheelhouse” category in #CBR10Bingo.  I found it while searching my local library, having concluded that I would not typically read science fiction or graphic novels.  So this seemed to fit the category twice over. I remember attempting to read this book when I was in high school, and hating it.  I don’t think that I ever finished it.  When Disney came out with a movie version this year, I was adamant about not seeing it. So I was pleasantly surprised that […]

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8/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

Underrepresented #CBR10 Bingo

The Descent of Monsters by JY Yang

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JY Yang is a queer, non-binary, post-colonial intersectional feminist. They live in Singapore. The Descent of Monsters is the third in JY Yang’s Tensorate Series. I reviewed the first two volumes earlier this year, and the third continues the riveting and ingenious story of a world where a very privileged few hold ultimate power and wield it with disregard, if not contempt, for the rest. While the first two volumes focus on the extraordinarily talented twin children of the supreme dictator known as the Protector, this third volume is told from the point of view of a lesser tensor, Sariman, […]

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8/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:34 |

An incomplete yet intriguing start to a series

The Other End of Time by Frederik Pohl

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Frederik Pohl’s Gateway is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi stories, and so I snagged another one of his books as I was browsing through the library. The Other End of Time is the first book of the Eschaton trilogy, and I have to say that while the series may be good (haven’t read it, yet), the first book felt incomplete and disappointing.  A pet peeve I have in comics and in modern books is that stories are incomplete. I sort of enjoy recurring characters, although I prefer to use my own imagination to determine how things went after a story is finished. What […]

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8/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:52 |

If aliens landed, we’d still be idiots.

Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

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Reading ideas come from all sorts of places. While I’m a big sci-fi fan, I’d admittedly never heard of the Strugatsky brothers until I read an article about European dystopian games in a recent edition of Game Informer magazine. (For you cool people who don’t know about Game Informer, it’s the magazine you get an automatic subscription to when you sign up for a rewards card at GameStop stores. It’s pretty good!) I found out that the influential S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game was based on a novel from 1972. My library had it. Serendipity.  A few dozen pages in and the […]

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8/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:50 |

A picnic. Picture a forest, a country road, a meadow. Cars drive off the country road into the meadow, a group of young people get out carrying bottles, baskets of food, transistor radios, and cameras.

Roadside Picnic by boris strugatsky; arkady strugatsky

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CBR10Bingo – The Book was Better? I’ll by reviewing the book and then talking about the movie a little. This book is written by the Russian authors Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. The brothers were active in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and according to the book’s introduction struggled with their sense of place within Soviet Russia and within the Russian culture industry of the time. I have talked before about reading literature produced from within “enemy” cultures (enemies to the world of Western Europe and the US) and this is a strictly 20th century problem, since if I read say […]

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8/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:299 |

“You can’t save people from the world. There’s nowhere else to take them.”

The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

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The Girl With All the Gifts is a bit slow moving at first. We start with Melanie, a precocious young girl who is being raised in captivity on a military base. She, along with two dozen other children, have various teacher who give them a variety of lessons. Ms Justineau is Melanie’s favorite teacher in part because she reads Greek myths to the class. But this isn’t a regular school; the children are kept locked up in cells and they attend their classes bound to wheelchairs. They, along with all the people are the base, are never allowed outside because of […]

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8/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:87 |

Dreamy art plus a good science fiction story – not such a bad find

Orbiter by Warren Ellis

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Happy QuarterCannonball to me! I was in the library to pick up a the ten ton Oathbringer, and happened across this graphic novel I had not heard of previously. In truth, it’s Colleen Doran’s name that caught my attention first – she is very talented, able to draw and paint in many different styles, and has interesting discussions about art and artists and women in the graphic novel business on Twitter. Warren Ellis of Transmetropolitan fame is good too, though. The foreword to the novel is basically a love letter to space travel, specifically manned space travel. To a certain […]

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8/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:13 |

Episode 1-29: What the F–k Did I Just Read?

A Highly Unlikely Scenario, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, The Fold, High-Rise, Turbulence by Rachel Cantor, Robin Sloan, Peter Clines, JG Ballard, Stuart Woods

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Episode 1-29: What The Fuck Did I Just Read? Wherein I review: 111. A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World by Rachel Cantor 112. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 113. The Fold by Peter Clines 114. High-Rise by J.G. Ballard 115. Turbulence (Stone Barrington #46) by Stuart Woods Sometimes your little brain needs to get fried.  This was a combo platter of what the f–kery.  I enjoyed Robin Sloan’s wonderous cult of personality, and Peter Clines’ Lost-esque pseudo-sequel to 14.  Didn’t so much love High-Rise which felt like a nasty essay and […]

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8/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:115 |


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