No, I’ve never read the book. No idea why. Just never could get into it, which is sort of sad, you know, being a feminist SF/F writer who’s never read it. But I did manage to sit through the 3-hour miniseries, which I’d heard was really awful, so I wasn’t expecting much. All right, no, […]
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The guys at work tend to get together for LAN parties on occasion, so I figured I’d pick up some first-person shooter games and try my hand at it so I could join in. This is definately one of those games that, after a certain point, you just have to play with other people, otherwise
Sorry, movie-makers, I already read the Chris Priest novel with the similiar name, and it was way better. It even got written a year earlier, minus the silly sexual “game pod” imagery and with actual characters.
This is probably a far more effective recruiting video than anything they’ve got out there now. Enjoy.
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Man, I wanted to love this book. Really, really wanted to love this book. I hadn’t read any of Buckell’s stuff before, but I’d heard about it; it sounded like a great concept: space opera with a cast of characters with Caribbean heritage. I mean, dreadlocks and big guns and ships with awesome names like
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You can now pick up a cheap copy of Daniel Abraham’s A Shadow in Summer on bookstore shelves. I did not lust after this book with ravenous passion of a bel dame, but I did enjoy much of what he did with it. My review/rant is here. Please support Series Fantasy That Doesn’t Suck.
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As I’ve been reading a recent SF title, it’s gotten me to think about what it is that makes fiction really great for me. Some of this I covered before when reviewing some of VanderMeer’s work, and the same issue is hitting me again with this book, only in the opposite way. See, so