I stumbled across a lovely essay in the NYT by Lev Grossman just before I left for some recent travel. Â And I’d just watched him win the Campbell Award for best new writer – and graciously accept the tiara and wear it well. Â Since I hadn’t read any of his fiction, I decided to buy …
I’m at Norwescon, and one of the panels I was on posed the question, “Can science fiction save the world?” Much discussion ensued, most of it excellent. Conclusions: Maybe. It has (think of Orwell, Bradbury, etc). It’s often the stories and books that are written with no agenda to save the world that have an …
Writers who have created science fiction that could save the world Read More »
Sometimes it’s worth it to get led to a book. I roomed with Kris Dikeman at the Starry Heaven writing workshop in Flagstaff, and she recommended N.K. Jeminsin to me. Then I was at World Fantasy in Cleveland and bidding on the P.K. Dick award table when I noticed The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, bid on it, and …
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First, this was a hard read. I had to work for it. Maybe that’s partly because I have been pretty stressed by family stuff, but it took me two full weeks to read this, about 12 days to get through the first half and then not much time to finish. But I loved it. I’ve …
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Flesh and Fire: Book One of The Vineart War is one of most unique new fantasy worlds I’ve read in a long time, full of new ideas to clothe another of my favorite things: coming of age stories. I highly recommend this to anyone who loves award-winning fantasy like Lois McMaster Bujold’s “Curse of Chalion.” …
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This was my worldcon reading book, the one I stayed up for a bit even after stumbling in late to read, and finished on the flight home. I liked it a lot. Green is ambitious, with a grand scale story that follows Lake’s protagonist from an early age to a very mature, dangerous young woman. While …
