Six months ago, we tried a new game that didn’t go over very well because it was just too hard. So, we’ll try an easier version of the game today.
Grab a well-known speculative fiction book off the shelf (something you think that many of us will be familiar with), choose a passage and give us 50 words from that passage. Other readers will try to guess your book while you try to guess theirs.
Here are the rules:
July 31st, 2014. Kat Hooper | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 28 comments |
Rogues edited by George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois
Rogues, a short-story anthology by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, is a marvelously diverse collection of stories and genres, tied together by those scoundrels, those tricksters, those rascals, those rogues that you can’t help but love. I listened to it on audiobook and loved the experience, especially because a few of the readers were actors from Game of Thrones.
When I picked this up, I was most excited to hear two stories in particular: “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back,”
July 31st, 2014. Kate Lechler´s rating: 4.5 | Cherie Priest, Gardner Dozois, George R.R. Martin, Joe Abercrombie, Michael Swanwick, Neil Gaiman, Patrick Rothfuss, Phyllis Eisenstein, Scott Lynch, Walter Jon Williams | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
The Buried Life by Carrie Patel
Carrie Patel’s The Buried Life is one of those amiable novels that you keep reading because, well, you picked it up, and if this bit here feels a bit clunky, and that bit there even more so, and sure, that’s a little implausible, and yes, wouldn’t it be nice if the prose were livelier, the world richer, but it’s, you know, nice enough, and maybe it’ll get better than nice — sharper, or edgier, or “grabbier” — but no,
July 31st, 2014. Bill Capossere´s rating: 3 | Carrie Patel | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Dinner at Deviant’s Palace by Tim Powers
Tim Powers is an author who seems to forever fly under the radar of popular readership. And there doesn’t seem to be an obvious reason. His stories are well crafted, his prose lean and brisk, and his sense of the fantastic always vivid and invigorating. His fifth novel, Dinner at Deviant’s Palace, has all of these qualities on display. Recently brought back to life by Open Road Media after two decades out of print, the novel has everything a genre fan could love.
July 31st, 2014. Jesse Hudson´s rating: 3 | Tim Powers | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
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