Next SFF Author: Ben Aaronovitch

Day: August 12, 2014


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The Ultra Thin Man: Shows real promise

The Ultra Thin Man by Patrick Swenson

I have to admit that sometimes I hate reviewing first-time novels. Not those first-time novels where you can’t believe this was a first foray into novel writing and not the product of an experienced author using a pen name. And not those first-time novels where you can’t believe no one — an editor, a reading group, a spouse — suggested that perhaps the book wasn’t quite ready for prime time (or late, late night even). And certainly not those first novels that are so painfully,


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Magic for Beginners: Impressive and strange

Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link

Kelly Link’s short story collection, Magic for Beginners, is a great piece of work. In a bit of a departure from her earlier collection Stranger Things Happen, the stories in it don’t follow normative narrative structures; they draw from sources as various as fairy tales, kitchen sink realism, heist stories, TV fandom, and Link’s own surrealist vision.  These nine stories don’t share overt connections, but they do provide a window into modern American life, complete with bland marriages,


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Cyador’s Heirs: I read it twice

Cyador’s Heirs by L.E. Modesitt Jr 

Cyador’s Heirs, the seventeenth book in the SAGA OF RECLUCE, takes place after the fall of the great nation of Cyador. It tells the story of Lerial, the younger son of the current Duke of Cigoerne, the heir to the Malachite Throne of fallen Cyador. L.E. Modesitt Jr. follows Lerial as he comes of age and is shaped by people and events around him.

Lerial is an intelligent, angry, slightly jealous younger son of the nobility.


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Next SFF Author: Ben Aaronovitch

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