Review of A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge tied with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis as the winner of the Hugo Award in 1993. (Coincidentally, The Book Smugglers just reviewed Doomsday Book today if you want to read about the other Hugo winner for the year.) It was also nominated for several other awards such as the Nebula Award, the Campbell Award, and the Locus SF Award. There is a prequel to this science fiction novel called A Deepness in […]
Review of Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
A brief note on the Vorkosigan books before I get into Memory: Memory is the tenth book out of fourteen total in the Miles Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold. That is, it’s tenth in chronological order beginning with the prequels about Miles’s parents and including the books that do not feature Miles. It may seem odd to include the latter two, but they are still in the series omnibus editions along with the other books so I’ve been reading […]
Review of The Folding Knife by K. J. Parker
The Folding Knife is a stand alone novel by K. J. Parker, although it is supposed to be set in the same world as some of the author’s other works. K. J. Parker has also written the Engineer trilogy, the Fencer trilogy, the Scavenger trilogy, The Company, and The Hammer (which just came out earlier this month). He/she is also known for his/her mysterious identity, as there is very little information about the author and speculation on just who he/she […]
Guest Review of Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Spin, the first book in an eponymous trilogy by Robert Charles Wilson, was published in 2005 and won the Hugo award for best novel shortly thereafter. The second book in the series, Axis, came out in 2007 and the final book, Vortex, is scheduled to be released in May of this year. My understanding is that this is a very good thing as I’ve read that Axis suffers from a strong case of middle book syndrome and Spin, despite some […]
Review of Lady Lazarus by Michele Lang
Lady Lazarus is the first book in a trilogy, the Magda Lazarus Saga, by Michele Lang. The second book in this re-imagining of World War II, Dark Victory, will be released in 2011. Even though it is an account based on an alternate history involving vampires, angels, witches, and werewolves, it is also based on the author’s family history since her Jewish mother and grandparents are Holocaust survivors who lived in Hungary during this time. It also draws from the […]
Review of Midsummer Night by Freda Warrington
Midsummer Night is the second Aetherial Tales novel as well as the second book by British author Freda Warrington to be published in the United States. The first Aetherial Tales book is Elfland, but both this and Midsummer Night stand alone even though they are set in the same universe. The more recently published book does take place after Elfland, but it’s definitely not necessary to read the earlier book first. There are some minor characters that appear, but it […]
