Monthly Archives: March 2008

A slight, straightforward thriller that isn’t without its charms. The book’s main drawback is that it was way too obvious from the beginning how the McGuffin worked. Also, only one of the revelations really surprised, and that was because of … Continue reading →

I think I read this book too quickly; I ate it in huge gulps, and it might’ve been better to take it slow. A dizzying urban-fantasy meditation on mourning and loss and finding one’s way.

This sort-of sequel to lost boy lost girl inverts, invalidates and subverts that novel. I’m fine with that; I really enjoyed lblg and was happy to see that this book that I picked up on a whim from the $1 … Continue reading →

I was a bit worried at the beginning of this book; while it was amusing– an interstellar diplomatic crisis caused via encoded-insult farting– I wasn’t sure if an entire book in the style of the opening chapter would wear well. … Continue reading →

Three Days to Never is closer to Earthquake Weather than Declare. (How’s that for a review only Tim Powers’ readers will understand?) A father and daughter, psychically linked for unknown reasons, uncover a mystery in their recently-deceased (great-)grandmother’s shed — … Continue reading →

The best science fiction, to my mind, is not only about ideas but about people. Spin was a revelation; a gorgeous what-if novel about a seemingly-catastrophic event, with an examination of what happened afterwards on a global as well as … Continue reading →