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Day: March 25, 2015

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WWWednesday: March 24, 2015

Last week, I didn’t post a web-roundup because I was abducted by Martians and they wiped my brain. Sorry, everyone.

Writing, Editing, and Publishing:

Margaret Atwood has a new book coming out in September, set in the near-future world of her Positron short stories.

Cat Valente talks boy heroes vs. girl heroes as she discusses her upcoming book, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland, on John Scalzi’s The Big Idea.

Suvudu’s Cage Match of women warriors features some of our very favorites: Alice Quinn,


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March 25th, 2015. | World Wide Wednesday | 11 comments |

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Inside a Silver Box: Too-unorthodox storytelling and a jumbled plot. DNF.

Inside a Silver Box by Walter Mosley

Sometimes you read a book and think, “Well, that was a bad book.” And sometimes you read a book and wonder, “Was that a bad book?” Walter Mosley has been a widely praised author for decades, has won a host of major awards, and is known for his sharp characterization and compelling plotting. So when I read a book of his that just throws me wholly for a loop, one in which I can’t abide either the characters or plot at all, so much so that I have to force myself to reach the halfway point before finally giving up,


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March 25th, 2015. ´s rating: | | | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |

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Surface Detail: Another wild ride in Iain Banks’ far-future universe

Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks

Surface Detail (2010), the penultimate CULTURE novel, is another wild ride in Iain Banks’ far-future universe. Interestingly (or at least I think so), this novel deals with the afterlife, as does the final CULTURE novel, The Hydrogen Sonata, which was published several months before Banks’ unexpected death of gallbladder cancer in 2013.

Though speculation about what happens beyond death is a heavy subject, Banks deals with it flippantly in Surface Detail (and also to a lesser extent in The Hydrogen Sonata).


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March 25th, 2015. ´s rating: | | | SFF Reviews | no comments |

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Hive Monkey: This fun, fizzy concoction is not completely satisfying

Hive Monkey by Gareth L. Powell

Hive Monkey is the second book in Gareth L. Powell’s ACK ACK MACAQUE series, originally dubbed a trilogy but now, apparently, fated to be a quartet. The eponymous monkey, who likes cigars, rum and flying a refurbished WWII Spitfire, plays a large role in this book, gleefully wreaking mayhem on the bad guys. His sidekicks, Victoria Valois, journalist-turned-airship-captain, K8, plucky girl hacker, and Paul, a hologram, also have roles to play as they battle the colonized drones of an evil hive-mind.


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March 25th, 2015. ´s rating: | | SFF Reviews | no comments |

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