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Scifi Book Club 1/3/11: The Darkship Thieves

Posted in book review, science fiction, tagged , , , on January 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Our December book club book was The Darkship Thieves by Sara Hoyt. Because of the weather and my poor memory, the author wasn’t able to join us after all, but we still had an energetic discussion. The story is a romantic space opera, told from the first-person perspective of a twenty-something princess with serious psychiatric [...]

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December’s Scifi Book Club Meeting

Posted in book review, books, scifi, tagged , , , , on December 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Sorry for the delay in posting this recap. Our scifi book club meeting for December was our best-attended yet, with 11 participants! We read Theodore Sturgeon’s The Dreaming Jewels. It’s a very dark story of Horty, a boy with mysterious powers, who runs away to the carnival. Perhaps because Theodore Sturgeon was primarily a short [...]

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Scifi Book Club discussion: Brains, a Zombie Memoir

Posted in book review, books, tagged , , , , on November 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Last night’s scifi book club meeting was a little smaller, only four people, but I suspect that’s because a) the book didn’t appeal to the broader scifi crowd and b) it was voting day. We read Brains, A Zombie Memoir, by Robin Zecker. It’s a slim volume, only 178 pages, and it’s an almost-parody of [...]

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Shutter Island has a twist ending. (no spoilers, I think)

Posted in book review, books on October 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Several of my friends recommended Shutter Island, both the book and the movie. Mysteries aren’t usually my thing, but then this was a departure for them too. I immediately liked the two Federal Marshals who went to the titular Shutter island to investigate a runaway. The writing style is engaging, and the dialogue especially is [...]

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Pattern Recognition

Posted in book review, books, essay, genre, lit crit, recs, science fiction, scifi on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s been a while since William Gibson‘s Pattern Recognition came out, and I still haven’t managed to read it. I enjoyed Neuromancer very much, but haven’t been impressed by some of his other work. Nevertheless, this interview in the Blackbird Archive is fantastic. Most of it, you’ll notice, is an extended meditation on what constitutes [...]

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