Category: Booklog

Neal Asher is one of those authors who’s big in the UK, but not so much in the US. He gets talked about a fair bit, but it’s only fairly recently that I’ve started seeing his stuff in stores here. He’s been on the list of authors I mean to check out for a while,… Continue reading Neal Asher, Gridlinked [Library of Babel]

Tim Powers is one of those authors who has carved out a niche for himself telling a particular type of story, sort of like Guy Gavriel Kay with his pseudo-historical fantasy novels. In Powers’s case, the niche might be summarized as “supernatural secret history.” His best novels are set in something that’s more or less… Continue reading Tim Powers, Three Days to Never [Library of Babel]

Opinions differ about Vernor Vinge’s latest book, Rainbows End (the apostrophe was intentionally left blank), and mostly seem to be correlated with how people approached the book. For example, Mike Kozlowski approached it from the standpoint that it’s a new Vinge book, and thus expected to be as good as A Deepness in the Sky,… Continue reading Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End [Library of Babel]

Sarah Monette, aka truepenny is somebody that Kate knows from LiveJournal, so when her first novel, Melusine was published, Kate bought it right away. Weirdly, though, I got around to reading it before she did (thanks to positive reviews of the sequel in Locus, and in spite of the dreadful cover), and then went directly… Continue reading Sarah Monette, Melusine and The Virtu [Library of Babel]

When I switched over the ScienceBlogs, I did so intending to keep my booklog separate. In the last several months, though, the book log has been languishing, in large part because I feel obliged to keep up the quantity and quality of the posts here. Which means that I end up not writing booklog entries… Continue reading Kenneth Oppel, Airborn [Library of Babel]