Tue, 13 Jan 2009
- Pushing Ice, by Alastair Reynolds, copyright 2005; Ace/The Berkley
Publishing Group/The Penguin Group/Penguin Group (USA) Inc., June 2006, ISBN 0-441-01401-1.
Sun, 11 Jan 2009
Saturn's Children, A Space Opera by Charles Stross, copyright 2008; Ace Books/The Berkley Publishing Group/The Penguin Group/Penguin Group (USA) Inc., July 2008; ISBN 978-0-441-01594-8. Bridgeport Public Library.
Despite the cover (which I suppose was appropriate to the content of the book, but still was rather off-putting) I enjoyed this.
Sat, 10 Jan 2009
Bad Monkeys, by Matt Ruff, copyright 2007; HarperPerennial/HarperCollins Publisher; first Harper Perennial edition published 2008; ISBN 978-0-06-124041-6. Bridgeport Public Library.
This book listed three others by Matt Ruff: Set This House in Order, Fool on the Hill, Sewer, Gas & Electric; I think I should check them out.
Wed, 07 Jan 2009
The Dark Heart of Time, by Philip José Farmer, copyright © 1999 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.; Del Rey/The Ballantine Publishing Group/Random House, Inc.; 1st edition, 1st printing, June 1999; ISBN 0-345-42463-8.
It's been a while since I've read any of Burrough's Tarzan books, so I can't compare styles, but certainly in inventiveness and subject matter Farmer did a good job with this story. I've always been fond of Farmer's various different takes on Tarzan, whether an authorized pastiche like this one, a deconstruction, an alternate mythology, or a backstory element [1].
I really should complete my collection of Tarzan novels, though.
| [1] | See Hadon of Ancient Opar and its sequel, Flight to Opar. |
Sun, 04 Jan 2009
The Mirror of Worlds, the second volume of The Crown of the Isles, by David Drake, copyright © 2007; Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, mass market edition: November 2008; ISBN-10, 1st printing: 0-7633-5117-X, ISBN-13: 978-0-7633-5117-X.
This is 2nd book in the trilogy that concludes Drake's The Lord of the Isles series. I've really enjoyed this series because of the interesting characters, interesting setting, and interesting magic.
Sat, 03 Jan 2009
- Mistral's Kiss, by Laurell K. Hamilton, copyright © 2006; Ballantine Books/The Random House Publishing Group/ Random House, Inc., mass market edition 2007; ISBN 978-0-345-44361-8.
- A Lick of Frost, by Laurell K. Hamilton, copyright © 2007; Ballantine Books/The Random House Publishing Group/ Random House, Inc., mass market edition 2008; ISBN 978-345-49591-4.
Two more entertaining entries in Hamilton's Meredith Gentry series.