Just finished “The Emperor’s Soul,” a really lovely novella by Brandon Sanderson. It came to me as a freebie somewhere – maybe at World Fantasy – and I almost left it behind.  I’m glad I didn’t. The beautiful cover convinced me to add yet another book to the load I was already carrying.  Not that I don’t like Brandon’s …
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It’s not often that I recommend a book you can’t get yet. Â But I really think you want to pre-order Nexus by Ramez Naam. Â I have read it, and I got to blurb it. I also have a story about it. Â I had met Ramez at a series of futurist lunches hosted by futurist mentor, …
Nancy Kress’s new novella, After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall is out now from Tachyon. Â It’s a good read. Â I got an advance peek at it, and I heard her read from it at a local reading earlier this year. Â I’ve been waiting for it to be available so that I could …
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OMG. Â I loved this book! Â I have reader cookies for big ideas, bright ideas, fabulous world-building, and depth of character. Â Vernor is capable of all of that, and he showed his stuff pretty brilliantly in The Children of the Sky. This book is solid science fiction, and as good as A Deepness in the Sky, …
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Just finished Heart of Iron last night. Â Part steampunk, part penny dreadful, part alternate history, and all fun. Â I decided I loved Ekaterina’s writing when I read The Alchemy of Stone, and so I picked this up shortly after it came out. Â The two books are very different, but both are full of voice. I …
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I’m busy reading books and stories set either in 2012 or in the Yucatan Peninsula. I read Aliette de Bodard’s Nebula nominated novelette, “The Jaguar House, In Shadow” and loved it so much that I went right to her novel “Servant of the Underworld.” It’s a bit of a cheat for this post series because …
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While finishing up as much Nebula Awards reading as possible, I ordered and then devoured Nnedi Okorafor’s powerful novel “Who Fears Death.” Interestingly enough, her story that I recommended a few posts ago, “The Book of Phoenix” fits into this novel. The world-building is phenomenal, full of symbolism and magic and yet close enough for …
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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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I just finished Cherie Priest’s Dreadnought, her second book in her Clockwork Century series. I like Cherie’s world, in spite of the fact that I am generally an anti-fan of novels with zombies in them at all. At least here they remain again decently off-stage for most of the time. What Cherie puts on-stage is …
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I have been getting in more reading lately due to long drives (and audiobooks), the coming Hugo vote, and the fact that it’s a bit easier to read than write at the moment. Yes, I’m doing both, but in different proportions than usual. Anyway, I loved Robert Sawyer’s WWW: Wake, which I recommended long before …
