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Recent Reviews21 May 2012 When writing about The Avengers, there's a temptation to get hung up on logistics. 18 May 2012 Many seasoned adults readers will inhale the crisply written Planesrunner, though their reading will likely involve a dual perception: on the one side, nostalgia, imbued with the hope of slipping back into the delights and pleasures recalled from childhood, on the other side in adult reading mode, always full of the hope of encountering something a little different, something that might appeal to a more mature palate. 16 May 2012 Harkaway's fatal flaw is the one Priest identifies: he never stops. Sea Hearts/The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan 14 May 2012 Margo Lanagan's Sea Hearts renews the selkie myth by pushing back its borders. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness 11 May 2012 A Discovery of Witches is full of contradictions such as these, in which the text states that its supernatural characters are one thing, while showing us the exact opposite. The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer 09 May 2012 The Weird has no synecdoche: to review a few of its stories is to fail to capture the collection; to review the collection is to sand over the innumerable rough peaks of story which spit, fittingly ill-fitting, from its roiling surface. 07 May 2012 The Hunger Games succeeds on almost all fronts. The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman 04 May 2012 About the most overt type of racism—the outright belief that people of another race are inherently different and inferior to those of own's own—The Freedom Maze delivers a clear, strong message of condemnation. The Drowning Girl: A Memoir by Caitlín R. Kiernan 02 May 2012 Caitlín R. Kiernan's latest and arguably, yes, her greatest, is rife with wrongness. Dangerous Waters and Darkening Skies by Juliet E. McKenna 30 April 2012 Dangerous Waters and Darkening Skies rather failed to live up to their interesting premise. 27 April 2012 As it happens, I agree with Eric Brown's assessment in the Guardian that no one writes SF quite like Palmer. I just can't work out whether that is a good thing. The Books of the Raksura: The Cloud Roads and The Serpent Sea, by Martha Wells 25 April 2012 Wells remains a compelling storyteller whose clear prose, goal-driven plotting, and witty, companionable characters should win her fans among those who enjoy the works of writers such as John Scalzi and Lois McMaster Bujold. In the Mouth of the Whale by Paul McAuley 23 April 2012 The inevitable and inescapable state of humankind is war. Such, at least, seems to be the conclusion we must draw from the third part in Paul McAuley's ongoing series. View older reviews in our Archive, thanks to the kindness of our authors who allow us to keep their material online. |
