What are you reading? (August 2013)
08-01-13, 02:13 AM
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What are you reading? (August 2013)
Boosted by a few hours travel time, yesterday I finished the last book and am now part way through versatile Briton Chris Wooding's science fantasy "The Fade".
Very impressed so far!
Very impressed so far!
08-07-13, 02:49 AM
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Just finished ...
... excellent. It's been too long since his last novel (at least if you don't count the children's books). And not that I didn't enjoy his comic fantasy stories (like Anansi Boys and American Gods), but I really welcomed a return to a more serious fantasy story (like The Sandman).
... excellent. It's been too long since his last novel (at least if you don't count the children's books). And not that I didn't enjoy his comic fantasy stories (like Anansi Boys and American Gods), but I really welcomed a return to a more serious fantasy story (like The Sandman).
08-10-13, 04:33 PM
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Finished Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed (Left Behind #5), started Assassins: Assignment: Jerusalem, Target: Antichrist (Left Behind #6):
08-12-13, 02:45 AM
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Re: What are you reading? (August 2013)
Now started an Instanbul-sited near-future science-fictional tale, The Dervish House by Ian McDonald.
From what I can already tell, TDH is a multiple-viewpoint narrative examining the aftermath of an ostensibly small terrorist incident in the newly-"European" Turkish capital.
Already familiar with his work, I was attracted by the praise it had received from IMcD's fellow-Brits Peter F Hamilton and Richard Morgan. It was also multiply award-nominated, actually winning the British Science Fiction Award.
Of late, McDonald seems to be focussing away from the West: Africa, India, South America.
From what I can already tell, TDH is a multiple-viewpoint narrative examining the aftermath of an ostensibly small terrorist incident in the newly-"European" Turkish capital.
Already familiar with his work, I was attracted by the praise it had received from IMcD's fellow-Brits Peter F Hamilton and Richard Morgan. It was also multiply award-nominated, actually winning the British Science Fiction Award.
Of late, McDonald seems to be focussing away from the West: Africa, India, South America.
08-13-13, 08:19 AM
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Re: What are you reading? (August 2013)
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