You know how sometimes you go to review a book and you just can’t figure out what to say about it? For, like, weeks on end? And meanwhile you keep reading, and your stack of things-to-review just keeps growing. And growing? And grooooowwing. This is one of those times. It’s not that I don’t have thoughts and feelings, and not that I didn’t enjoy the book, because I did and I do, but I’m having a hard time getting up the energy to condense and organize all […]
“No matter how we’re eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.”
An infrequent reader of comics and graphic novels, I was intrigued by the Saga series, mainly because of the glowing reviews from Malin. It promised several of the most fun genre conventions: epic war, forbidden romance between opposite sides of battle lines, mercenary assassins, imaginative new alien species, and MAGIC! Our narrator is Hazel, child of Alana and Marko, the forbidden lovers. So far, the narration has been retrospective, but still not completely linear. We enter in the middle of Alana and Marko on the […]
Another creepy and imaginative trip down the rabbit hole that is The Southern Reach Trilogy.
Annihilation had a pretty cover. It was gold and covered in fine spores that drifted across the page invitingly, so I picked it up not knowing what to expect. (Although people say not to trust a book by its cover, I’ve not been burned yet, touch wood.) It started off with a simple premise: a small team of specialists are sent to a strange contaminated area in order to figure out what was going on. It soon descended into weirder and weirder territory, as the team […]
Caught between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea…
Target: Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker #1) Profile: Speculative Fiction, Young Adult There is a gritty reality to Paolo Bacigalupi’s work. A grim straightforwardness that crushes the optimism older SF styles. On its own, this same honesty produces brilliantly brutal speculative fiction, like Windup Girl. But there is a necessary optimism to Young Adult literature that is at odds with Bacigalupi’s tone. Ship Breaker lives in artificial space between two styles, carving out its own literary niche, but at the same time feeling discordant and incomplete. And yet, it […]
CANNONBALL! “Shadow Lord ”: Star Trek Novel Vangie13 cbr #52
by Laurence Yep “I speak from experience,” Mr. Spock said coldly. People are continually asking me to play roles in petty emotional melodramas in which I have asked neither to be cast nor directed.” Well, we go from the wonder and joy of “Uhura’s Song” to this. I don’t know what this is. Prince Vikram, 9th in line to the throne of the planet Angira, was sent to the Federation to study and bring back new modernized ways to his planet. Spock and Sulu travel […]
“Uhura’s Song ”: Star Trek Novel Vangie13 cbr #51
by Janet Kagan “Sivao, where the north star beat like the heart of a child…” An insidious disease is ravaging the Federation. It began on Eeiauo and spread before it was known to be cross-species contagious. On her first mission, Uhura befriended a diplomat/dancer/singer from Eeiauo. They exchanged taboo songs and promised to never tell a soul. Uhura believes these secret songs may hold clues to cure the epidemic. Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise must decipher the songs to cure the plague. […]
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