And, I just have to share an almost blistering review of China Mieville’s latest, Iron Council. As the SF/F genre has a terrible tendency to overhype/overpraise their own, it was nice to see somebody take China to task for some of the purple prose.
He’s got some great stuff, fantastic ideas, and I fully intend to own all of his books. But yes, having a hard core editor would likely do his work some good.
Matthew Cheney has some critique and discussion of the review at the always good Mumpsimus.
Killing Eve meets Die Hard in this explosive science fiction thriller by the Hugo Award-winning author of The Light Brigade.
Hurley returns to the biogothic space opera universe of her cult classic The Stars are Legion for a riveting novel of obsession, betrayal, and ruinous choices.
Dragged out of retirement for one last job, former spy Rekha must board a dying worldship to hunt down an assassin she thought she killed twenty years ago. She has forty-one hours to do it, or the ship becomes their tomb.
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