Monthly Archives: January 2008

I wasn’t really sure when I started The Clan Corporate. At first, I felt like I was getting tired of the series, the same kind of series exhaustion that always gets me when I read too many books in one … Continue reading →

This entry is late, but I wasn’t really going to write much about Thin Air anyhow. I enjoyed the novel all right, and the ending was an actual ending. The series could actually stop here and have some closure. But, … Continue reading →

Spin is a wonderful book, perhaps the best novel I have read in a long time, certainly the best since Shelter. Beautifully human and optimistic, yet retaining a fascinating hard-SF sheen. A well-set-up “what if”, meticulously drawn and explored to … Continue reading →

Just as I was about to praise this series for avoiding the trap that the Weather Warden series has fallen into, bam! A needless tragedy and an attempted rape. So there you go. I’m still really interested to see where … Continue reading →

(Why the number? I’m doing the 50-book challenge again this year. 50 books of any kind, read and blogged by the end of the year. No em-dashes and no ellipsis allowed, and they’re still not reviews.) Another Weather Warden book. … Continue reading →

Four Weather Warden novels– Ill Wind, Heat Stroke, Chill Factor, Windfall (Rachel Caine): Popcorn, and pretty good popcorn– but it’s becoming more and more a Mary-Sue-type thing, and that’s not as enjoyable. Just once I’d like to read a series … Continue reading →