Time for another “Rename This Horrible Cover” contest!
Please help us rename this atrocious-looking science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg.
(We love Robert Silverberg, by the way.)
The creator of the title we like best wins a book from our stacks.
Got a suggestion for a horrible cover that needs renaming? Please send it to Kat.
We love this game!
April 20th, 2017. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 20 comments |
Dragon and Thief by Timothy Zahn
Dragon and Thief (2003, issued in trade paperback in 2016) blends dragons and space opera in an exciting middle grade science fictional adventure. The dragon in the title is Draycos, a warrior-poet of an alien species called the K’da, who are able to shift from a three-dimensional being to a two-dimensional tattoo that attaches to your skin, moving around your body at will. The K’da are also a symbiont species, requiring a host to attach themselves to at least every six hours,
April 20th, 2017. Tadiana Jones´s rating: 4 | Timothy Zahn | Children | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip Jose Farmer
At the risk of being overly simplistic, Jacque Derrida’s concept of deconstruction/post-structuralism (whichever you want to call it) is at heart the perspective that any ideological paradigm can be picked apart, bone by bone, until the skeleton lies in shambles on the floor. The purpose is not nihilistic in nature; it is intended, rather, to cast a wrench of relativity into such lofty ideals as modernism, and the rigid mindset of structuralism that came in tow. In practice, I have yet to read a science fiction text that deconstructs the Silver Age better than Philip Jose Farmer’s 1967 Riders of the Purple Wage.
April 20th, 2017. Jesse Hudson | Philip Jose Farmer | Hugo Award, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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