This book is billed as a sequel to The Dying Earth, but unlike that book, follows a single narrative, instead of being a collection of unrelated short stories. In practice, its locations are so varied that it could be seen as a collection of short stories, but there is a single central character. That character […]
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This collection of science fiction and fantasy stories was built around the single premise that the main character must be a woman warrior. There’s an interesting mix of stories here, some about war, some about the battles of real life. A couple of the sci fi stories featured some flavor of war being fought remotely,
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Read for the 2010 YA Reading Challenge. Tally is an Ugly, just shy of her sixteenth birthday, when she’ll have an operation to make her Pretty. Once you’re Pretty, it’s your job to party all day, with no cares in the world. Tally’s one of the youngest in her class, so most of her friends
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Read for the 2010 TBR Lite Reading Challenge. I’ve been trying to get my hands on The Dying Earth for years now (I have all the other books written in this particular world, but for some reason, the first was the hardest to locate). It’s one of those seminal earlier works of science fiction (or
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Read for the TBR Lite 2009 Reading Challenge. Cloud Atlas has a little bit of story for everyone. There’s the 19th century clerk on a ship in the South Pacific, an early 20th century aspiring composer trying to worm his way into the home and life a musical genius, a reporter from the 1970s investigating
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Read for the It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge II. This book focuses on the Abbey of Saint Leobowitz, founded after a nuclear war (called the Flame Deluge) destroys much of the world, in order to save some remnants of civilization. The documents they’re guarding come to be called the Memorabilia, and it’s
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Read for the It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge. Isherwood Williams is in the mountains when the plague that wipes out most of humanity happens. He travels back to his home in San Francisco through an oddly silent land, having to piece together what happened from what little information was left before most
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Read for the It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge. The title says everything you need to know about the subject matter of this short story collection. Every story is set after the world has ended. If that seems like a fairly limiting subject, you’re in for an interesting survey of how many different
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Neal Stephenson has a fairly insane imagination. Snow Crash is the story of a guy named Hiro and a girl named Y.T., both of who live in a near future L.A. where society has broken up into innumerable franchises where most people live out their lives in predictable sameness. However, for those who are able
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In a fit of extreme brain-deadedness (the only coworker that shares my job full time has been on vacation for the past two weeks, and by the end of it, I was getting a little behind, and a little tired…), I managed to watch the entire first series of Doctor Who in two nights. (Well,
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