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Day: April 8, 2010

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Ghosts of Manhattan: Has serious problems

Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann

I’ve been lukewarm to George Mann’s Victorian steampunk novels set in London, finding them mostly adequate: quick-paced but a bit flat and somewhat too beholden to cinematic cliché. They are intermittently entertaining and lively, but never quite get all the way to good. Mann’s new novel, Ghosts of Manhattan, is similar, but set in America this time. It’s perhaps a step above the London novels in quality.

It’s 1926 and America is in a cold war with a British Empire that still stretches over much of the world.


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April 8th, 2010. and ´s rating: | | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |

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Thoughtful Thursday: Beyond Tolkien

One of the accusations lodged against much fantasy is that it is all derivative of Tolkien.  Especially when dealing with epic or high fantasy, you have your ethereal elves, grouchy dwarves, carefree hobbits, evil orcs, heroic humans, wise wizards…  Well, just about any stock character in fantasy can be traced back to Tolkien’s works.  And while there is a reason for this — these archetypes draw on mythic traditions far older than Tolkien — it can get repetitive and make it difficult to do something entirely new.

Our intrepid reviewer Justin was discussing a book that he had just finished reading,


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April 8th, 2010. | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 21 comments |

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Auralia’s Colors: A gentle fantasy novel

Auralia’s Colors by Jeffrey Overstreet

Jeffrey Overstreet’s Auralia’s Colors is a bright, colorful fantasy debut. Painting with a unique palette, Overstreet tells the story — both heartening and tragic — of a young girl with a special mission of change.

Auralia is an orphan found by a group of Gatherers, laborers who are indentured to the local Noble family, House Abascar. Living in this rough community she has a chance to grow up untainted by some of the attitudes prevalent in the Householder community that lives in direct contact with House Abascar.


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April 8th, 2010. ´s rating: | | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |

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The Shadow Isle: Penultimate Deverry

The Shadow Isle by Katherine Kerr

We’re finally reaching the end of the Deverry saga with The Shadow Isle, the penultimate book in the series. There is a sense of Katharine Kerr pulling together all those strands to finish off the series effectively, but some mysteries are still to be resolved. One thing I am glad of is that I don’t actually know what Kerr will do to finish the story — although the Horsekin are currently ‘evil’, there has been enough switching sides and distinctions made between Horsekin and Gel da Thae for us to realize that no one is outright evil and everybody can be redeemed.


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April 8th, 2010. ´s rating: | | SFF Reviews | no comments |

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