Friday, July 24, 2009

Book 28: The Last Colony (Scalzi)

Also good, funny, semi-military SF

Book 27: The Android's Dream (Scalzi)

Good, funny, semi-military SF

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Monday, June 22, 2009

Book 25: The Mists of Everness (Wright)

Pretty good. Marred by silly, naive politics.

Book 24: The Last Guardian of Everness (Wright)

Excellent. Alternatively terrifying and goofy.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Book 23: The Light Fantastic (Pratchett)

Pretty good Discworld novel.

Book 22: The Armageddon Rag (Martin)

Lame and boring. Maybe his fantasy stuff's better?

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Book 21: Carpe Jugulum (Pratchett)

Funny and true.

Book 20: The Judging Eye (Bakker)

A little slow to start, but then excellent.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Book 19: Neuropath (Bakker)

Freaky.

Book 18: Gomorrah (Saviano)

Excellent non-fiction on organized crime in Naples. Truly wretched.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Book 15: God in a Cup (Weissman)

Fawning and trivial look at third wave "coffee guys" (Intelligentsia, Counter Culture, Stumptown)

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Book 14: The Darkness That Comes Before (Bakker)

Very good fantasy: bleak but gripping

Book 13: Inspiration and Incarnation (Enns)

Good discussion of NT use of OT (not grammatico-historical by a long shot)

Book 12: Sunshine Sketches (Lewis)

Good somewhat humourous stories about rural Ontario.

Monday, March 09, 2009

Book 11: An Evil Guest (Wolfe)

Good. Lots of action, Lovecraft ending, baffling shout-out to Cory Doctorow. I think there's more to this book than I got, maybe because I've heard people say there's always lots to Wolfe.

Book 10: The Golden Transcendence (Wright)

Excellent finish to the trilogy. High-quality far-future SF.

Friday, February 20, 2009