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Book Review: The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
...read these books once. I must warn you though, there is the danger of them becoming habit-forming.
Read More »Book Review: Accelerando Will Make Your Brain Hurt – In a Good Way
Hold on to your brain. Accelerando may cause cognitive overload. Trying to “understand” Charles Stross’s latest novel starts with something called the Singularity. The Singularity is a point in the future where technological progress and societal change produce such superhuman intelligence that those who precede the event are unable to …
Read More »The Quill Awards: New Literary Award
The Quill Literary Foundation has created the first literary awards whose results will be decided by the book buying public.
Read More »The Sins of the Father: George Lucas’s Star Wars Sestina
The Star Wars series is a celluloid sestina that transcends generations in its power to move and entertain.
Read More »Star Trek’s James Doohan Dies
The death of actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on Star Trek, motivates me to rethink the purpose of the series and subsequent feature films.
Read More »Book Review: The Traveler – Hyping Your Way to the Bestseller List
Hype. The modern American way of getting attention. It seems to have worked for John Twelve Hawks, the pseudonymous author.
Read More »Book Review: Finding Serenity – Analyzing a Celebrated Failure
Mal. Zoe. Jayne. Wash. Inara. Simon. River. Kaylee. Shepherd Book. Serenity. If those 10 names don’t leave you shaking your head at the stupidity of FOX Network executives, Finding Serenity isn’t the book for you. Finding Serenity is a collection of essays exploring the short lived FOX Television series Firefly. …
Read More »Iron Sunrise, Space Opera 21st Century Style
Charles Stross is science fiction’s latest sensation. After years of relative anonymity, he’s had two novels shortlisted for SF awards this year for best novel (in both the SF and fantasy categories) and two novellas have likewise been shortlisted for that format’s top awards. Iron Sunrise, which garnered the best-novel …
Read More »Spin: Life After the Stars Went Out
Shortlists and awards are wonderful for an author. Yet from the reader’s standpoint, isn’t the real test of a book whether you think it’s time well spent? Robert Charles Wilson, one of a growing contingent of excellent Canadian science fiction authors, meets that test with his latest novel, Spin. Wilson …
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