Book Review: “Shoresteading” by David Brin (from Gateways)
(I’ve decided to review each of the stories in Gateways — a collection edited by Elizabeth Anne Hull in honor of Frederik Pohl — individually. I will collect my thoughts about the anthology as a whole later. I’m doing this as a kind of experiment, as I find reviewing collections enormously difficult.) David Brin’s contribution […]
Book Review: Serial Killers Inc. by Andy Remic
Callaghan is a scallywag, divvying up his time between bedding married women, exploiting the vulnerable and dead to make a living at a tabloid magazine, and consuming enough alcohol and hardcore drugs to send him to an early grave. And things are going well for him on this destructive path. But Callaghan has an admirer, […]
Book Review: Central Park Knight by C. J. Henderson
Disappointment is an unfortunate thing when it comes to reading. Sometimes a book doesn’t live up to the expectations set up by the cover copy. It’s not often that this happens to me. I’ve found books with such problems to be average or even below-average, but it’s a rare thing that a book leads me […]
Book Review: The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
Readers will remember Kate DiCamillo as the author of the adorable Tale of Despereaux, which was turned into a computer animated film in 2008 (which I had the pleasure of seeing and enjoying). The Magician’s Elephant is a less expansive narrative, but one which attempts to reach into the heart of the human condition through […]
Book Review: Dark Jenny by Alex Bledsoe
Every once in a while I go out to the mailbox and discover a book in the mail that I wasn’t expecting. A lot of those books end up sitting on my review shelf, but some of those books intrigue me enough to dig my eyes into them. Such books tend to be quite good. […]
Book Review: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
When my friend and I asked Lauren Beukes to describe Zoo City, she understandably remarked that the book is rather difficult to explain. Zoo City isn’t like a lot of books. On the one hand it is a noir murder mystery with a semi-New Weird slant, but on the other it is a novel about […]