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November
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March 2014
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February 2014
17
Some books have an amazingly unexplainable ability to transcend the purpose of their creation and take a leap into being an i...
I'm going to start with a digression. I love John Sayles movies. Adore them. And once you've seen them all, you can see a pro...
I am not really sure what to write about Shipbreaker. I finished it about a week ago, but have been dawdling on writing the r...
Hyperion won the contest for my favourite book of last year. How could anything possibly live up to that? The Fall of Hyperio...
January 2014
30
Am I allowed to review this book without having read Moby Dick? Because I haven't, as of yet. I know the basic story, in the ...
January 2014
28
A fun and fast-paced thrill ride, almost impossible for me to put down. Picture a hard-boiled noir, the solitary, weary world...
First, notice the cover. Do you know why my review copy looks so different from the one you may have read? Published 1970, ba...
January 2014
01
I’m slightly ambivalent about Bacigalupi’s writing, but Ship Breaker has strengthened my affection. His short stories are ha...
December 2013
22
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This was very tense science fiction, a solid story, with interesting characters. In the end, I think it strikes me most as a ...
It happened right there on the first page. Mieville referred to sewers as "secular sepulchres," and I almost swooned. Perdido...