Wild Seed by Octavia Butler (1980) – I will admit up front that I am a big Octavia Butler fan and have always enjoyed her books. Her organic science fiction is not everyone’s cup of tea, but I find it a refreshing break from space ships and little green men. Plus, her stories are complex without being incomprehensible (my daughter might disagree), but I find I can slip into her worlds easily and be amazed by them. Wild Seed was one of the first Butler […]
Donuts must be the very essence of free will
Book number 5 in the Sandman Slim series and still going strong. Kadrey really manages to keep the tension while throttling up the action, the black humor and the giddy adrenaline indicative of the impending end of the world. That’s what Hell is. It’s the shithole bottom of the universe, but it’s a place where you’ll learn more about yourself than you ever wanted to know. It’s been a month since the end of the last book (and abdicating his throne in Hell) and […]
Nope.
I’ve read two other Christopher Moore books, Lamb and The Stupidest Angel, and enjoyed them both. I am having feelings of disappointment about A Dirty Job. It had lovely moments, and if it didn’t have those lovely moments, I would hate this book. There are a few spoilers ahead. As the book opens, Charlie Asher is becoming a new father, a widow, and weird stuff starts to happen. Charlie has become a death merchant – a collector of soul vessels. Not all people have a […]
Just talk to each other, already!
This novella is part of Bec McMaster’s London Steampunk series. Some of the back story and world building for the story can be found in my review for Kiss of Steel, the first book in the series. When former factory worker turned East End enforcer John “Rip” Doolan was nearly killed by a vampire attack, the only way to save his life was for his employer Blade to infect him with the craving virus (a sort of vampire light option). After six months, he is still […]