There are people within our time that just can see way ahead in the future and do some genius predictions, even though normally they end up wrong on the time frame. Take Phillip K. Dick and his androids from “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” that later became Blade Runner. The technology is right, if there weren’t any moral restraints on our cientists, but the timing is wrong. Arthur C. Clarke was a futurist. He loved to try and predict what would mankind be doing […]
The World Needs More Fiction about Questing Old Ladies
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe is a fantasy novella standalone and I don’t understand why I didn’t like it more than I did. All of the elements were there for a story to really speak to my soul, but for some reason this one just didn’t. It’s a good story, and I enjoyed it but my expectations going into reading it were a lot higher. Vellitt Boe is a professor at a University when one of her students, Clarie Jurat runs off to go live […]
Book 1: Malazan Book of the Fallen
When I was looking for new books to try, my friend recommended Morden’s Metrozone series and the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Of course, the Metrozone series veered off the rails for me, but I am buying what Erikson is selling here. Plus, Canadian! I started reading this on the plane to Hawaii, and although I had been warned by both my friend and Erikson’s foreword, I was surprised at how this book just drops the reader right in the middle of a very […]
Cinderella’s from the Moon
The premise here is great, but the execution was a little disappointing. This book isn’t poorly written, but it does lack some character development and some plot elements are rushed. I’m not sure what attracted Kai to Cinder in the first place (other than she’s more normal than other girls he presumably knows), which is a major factor in the Cinderella story, especially here since they’d met a few times before the ball. I also didn’t realize that Cinder was still significantly still human. It […]