Saints Astray by Jacqueline Carey is the sequel to Santa Olivia. The genre Santa Olivia falls under is hard to describe – it’s been referred to as both urban fantasy and science fiction. While I thought of it as urban fantasy when I first read it (not having read much of the genre at the time and having seen it labeled that), I’d consider it science fiction now since it does deal with genetic engineering and is a bit post-apocalyptic/dystopian. […]
The Leaning Pile of Books
This week was a very good week since it brought 3 new review copies, all of which look very interesting to me. I already talked about one of these books on Friday since I got it after I’d written up a post about how much I was looking forward to it in 2012. If you’re interested in learning more about Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear, there’s a post on it here (and I will say that although I haven’t […]
Books of 2012: Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
Instead of writing one huge post of all the books I’m looking forward to in 2012, I decided to highlight some of these books in their own posts throughout the rest of this year. That way I can include as much information as I want about each one without it being an 8-mile long post and can just compile a list of links to these posts at the end of the year. Range of Ghosts is the first book in […]
Books of 2012: Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire
Instead of writing one huge post of all the books I’m looking forward to in 2012, I decided to highlight some of these books in their own posts throughout the rest of this year. That way I can include as much information as I want about each one without it being an 8-mile long post and can just compile a list of links to these posts at the end of the year. Discount Armageddon is the first book in a […]
After the Apocalypse is a collection of short stories by Maureen F. McHugh. She is perhaps best known as the author of China Mountain Zhang, a nominee for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards as well as the winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Award, the Locus Award for First Novel, and the Lambda Award. After the Apocalypse contains nine short stories, only three of which were unpublished before this book. The complete list of stories is as follows: The […]
