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We’ve all read this book before: this guy can see dead people, something terrible happens, a plan to make money… Except here, it splinters and dives away. This novel is dizzying and beautiful. Nothing is as expected. When was the … Continue reading →

#23-25: The Jump 225 Trilogy (Infoquake, MultiReal and Geosynchron; David Louis Edelman) This series starts off as a business adventure tale — a young software star rising to the top via dirty tricks! — and then kind of moves sideways … Continue reading →

#18: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Stieg Larssen): Slight but satisfying follow-up to the first two in the series. Too many distracted sideplots, and disappointing in that it keeps Blomkvist and Salander apart far too long. #19 – … Continue reading →

(This trilogy consists of Assassin’s Apprentice, Royal Assassin, and Assasin’s Quest.) Massive three-part fantasy trilogy. Excellently written, or at least well-written enough for me to get past a psychically-bonded wolf familiar and, in the last book and a half, a … Continue reading →

#12: Black Magic Sanction (Kim Harrison) It is possible, I suppose, that Black Magic Sanction suffered unduly from being read immediately after a smart and self-aware urban fantasy, but I kind of doubt it. The book is lazily written (the … Continue reading →

Sometimes, the mind craves popcorn; and for that craving, Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files books are some of the best. A fairly long series that is planned to be REALLY long, this book is what the title promises, a lot of … Continue reading →

Chronic City is maddeningly elliptical. Set in a New York City just to the right of ours, uncertain in time, beset by mysterious problems (among them a fog that has for two years enveloped downtown; a giant rampaging tiger, destroyer … Continue reading →

The second of this mystery trilogy. Some things about Lisbeth Salander’s past come to light in this book, and some of her recent actions come back to be trouble. Much more a sequel than a stand-alone mystery. One of the … Continue reading →