This book seemed to have such promise. It sounded very “Christopher Moore” from the description. The reviews were excellent and declared it as the funniest book…. I suppose that should be a warning. Or maybe its me perhaps if I were a stone male college student who hadn’t yet read Christopher Moore novesl, I would liked it. So it started out OK but seemed to go downhill quickly with some side plots that just got in the way . The premise is […]
“Go write me a thriller based on dark matter that doesn’t insult my intelligence”
“Go write me a thriller based on dark matter that doesn’t insult my intelligence” This is that book – definitely out of the ordinary and hard to put down. Our hero Robert is a physicist who, working on series of dark matter experiments, has come very close to a breakthrough. Suddenly his company’s funding is cut and he and his teammates finds themselves unemployed. Add to this his girlfriend Cora is going through her own trauma after recently losing her sister. She deals with this loss and Robert’s trauma […]
1001 Nights, for Beginners
Engraved on the Eye is a collection of 8 short stories told in various settings of Fantasy Middle East, drawing on Islamic and Middle Eastern folklore. It’s an extremely quick read. The stories are entertaining and the characters are lively, jovial, and diverse. Every story has some sort of supernatural creatures; ghuls feature prominently, along with ghul-hunters, martial artists, gunslingers, supervillains, rogues, dervishes,bounty hunters, and shaykhs. As with many short story books, there’s a range in subject matter and quality. I particularly enjoyed Mister Hadj’s Sunset Ride (about a gun-slinging Muslim wizard in […]
Not the best of all possible books.
After thoroughly enjoying Redemption in Indigo, I picked up Karen Lord’s The Best of All Possible Worlds with high hopes. Unfortunately, my hopes were not met. The Sadiri are a proud, reserved race — positively Vulcan. Their home planet is destroyed suddenly and thoroughly. The survivors reach out to the indigenous humanoids of Cygnus Beta, many of whom have Sadiri ancestry and therefore would make suitable mates. Our heroine, biotechnician Grace Delarua, is assigned to work with Dllenahkh, a Sadiri councilor, on a mission to find […]