Awards
It’s Awards Season. Aliette de Bodard had a great run at the British Science Fiction Awards, winning in the Novel category for House of Shattered Wings and in the short story category for “Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight”. She is an awesome writer, and there also ought to be some award for Best Titles, because she comes up with them.
Apex, by Namez Raam, took the Philip K Dick Award for best original science fiction paperback.
March 30th, 2016. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | 1 comment |
The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson
Eva Ibbotson is a well-loved children’s author, and it is books like The Secret of Platform 13 that make me glad that I have no qualms about reading beyond the confines of suggested age groups. In fact, I find the experience particularly indulgent.
As a quick prologue, I note that some people have made much of the similarity between Ibbotson’s Platform 13 at Kings Cross Station and the one used by J.K. Rowling,
March 30th, 2016. Katie Burton´s rating: 5 | Eva Ibbotson | Children, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Jennifer L. Armentrout’s Obsidian is one of a slew of young adult paranormal romances that were published in the aftermath of the runaway success of Twilight. The plot, therefore, will sound familiar, though some of the details are different: a teenage girl, Katy Swartz, moves to a small town in West Virginia with her widowed mother to make a new start. Katy is a 4.0 GPA student and book review blogger who’s never caused her family trouble and considers herself a reserved and practical girl.
March 30th, 2016. Tadiana Jones´s rating: 1.5 | Jennifer L Armentrout | SFF Reviews | 9 comments |
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