I have struggled to find time to read with my busy real life but I made time over the last few days to finish the last half of this book and it is a fantastic end to this large galaxy spanning (literally) space opera. Tchaikovsky has created a world and universe that is so real and so complete and so fantastic that even though I knew I was getting to the climax, and I was…
My short story entitled “Alien Anthropologist” will appear in the next issue of On Spec, which is going to the printers soon! This was my first sale but is the second to appear. Still waiting (with 5 currently out on sub!) for the third sale…
This 2nd book completes the “Six of Crows” series where we follow the adventures of Kaz, Inej, Nina, Matthais, Jesper and Wylan as they attempt to undo the wrong they received at the hands of a crooked “merch” at the end of the last book. I’ve been struggling to find time to read, but I finally had some time and read the last quarter of it last night. It got to the point I love…
My novel has multiple POV characters. More than a year ago, one of the people in my writing group suggested I read this book because it tells its story through multiple POV characters as well, and she thought it would be good for me to see an example. Now, most of the SF I have read recently is also told through multiple POV characters, so this isn’t new for me, but I figured I would…
In the afterword to this book, Scalzi says that this is the first intentional trilogy he has written. That was an interesting fact to learn. This book follows the thread, picking up right where book two ended. There were a few surprises, not the least of which (SPOILER ALERT) was the death of the (seriously spoiler alert. I will pause and put it in the next paragraph… it will be safe to read after the…
I received this book as a gift from a friend. He said it was one of his favorite series. I had heard of Piers Anthony; one of my good friends in High School read him but somehow I just never managed to. I found myself laughing out loud and reading pithy sections to my wife as I read. I haven’t read much Terry Pratchett but this book was nailing the odd British humor that he…
As promised, I read this next. The book continues to follow the adventures of the Emperox, a scientist, and the head of the business side of a Royal House as they work separately, together, to try to deal with the end of the world. The throughways that allow for travel between the stars are closing, and since humanity mostly lives in habitats that aren’t self sufficient, this could be the end of the line. I…
I was in the mood for a faster read after some of the heavier fiction I’ve read recently, and I have had the first two books of this trilogy on my TBR shelf for quite some time. Feeling like I knew what I was in for, I started this book about a week ago. I didn’t read every day, so this was a quick read for me, and I got what I was expecting (to…
My first publication (2nd sale) has gone live at Radon Journal. “The Grocery Store” is a climate flash fiction piece I wrote several years ago, and it does have several Easter eggs that are probably only interesting to me. I am very glad that this piece found a home, and am looking forward to sharing much more with you my many many readers in the years to come. 🙂
This is book two in the continuance series after Stars and Bones and I liked this one a lot more than the previous one. I tried to figure out why… what is it about this book that resonated more with me? Don’t get me wrong. I liked the first one, but I gave that a 4/5 and this one gets a 5/5. So, what is different? Maybe because it was set further in the future…