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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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Hugo & Nebula Awards!

Posted in books, recs, science fiction, scifi, tagged , , , , , , , on April 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It’s that time of year again; the grass is turning green, the trees are budding out, the Nebula awards ceremony is coming up and the Hugo award nominees have been announced! The Nebula nominations were announced in February, of course. I haven’t read any of them myself (sad day!) but I’m about to start Boneshaker [...]

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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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