Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson & Kevin Hearne
Usually, any book that deals with cheese and has a talking goat will win me over. 2018’s Kill the Farm Boy has a talking goat, and it devotes many pages to thoughtful discussions of cheese. It looks deeply into the tropes of epic fantasy and fairy tales, then turns them upside down and inside out. Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne give us gonzo variations on conventional characters, lots of flatulence and poo jokes,
July 24th, 2018. Marion Deeds´s rating: 3 | Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop
Mankind is a creature which occupies itself predominantly in the present. Smoking, murder, alcohol abuse, poor diet, resource wastage — all of these habits and behaviors alleviate the moment but do nothing to bolster the idea a human is aware of, or concerned with, the long term existence of itself or the species. Moreover, it’s fair to say that when one does bring in the long view, “recent” history and near future remain the focus. Our primitive roots are left to esoteric niches of science (archeology,
July 24th, 2018. Jesse Hudson´s rating: 4.5 | Michael Bishop | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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