Now, The Forge of Gd, by Greg Bear, is what I call real old-fashioned science fiction. How come Your Humble Blogger never read this before? Not that it’s flawless. Heck, none of the characters actually achieve anything at all over…
A couple of weeks ago, Your Humble Blogger had occasion to note recent Hugo-winning novels, and the one that looked most intriguing was Hominids. I picked it up at the library, and it was a pretty quick and enjoyable read….
Your Humble Blogger had fond memories of Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates. Sadly, I went and ruined those memories by re-reading the thing. Yeesh. Yes, I know, it was published in 1865. But I cannot believe that even in…
So, you know how when you mosey around a museum looking at stuff, you feel totally self-conscious about whatever you say? I mean, Your Humble Blogger is like to say things to my Best Reader (either seriously or as jokes)…
So, Your Humble Blogger read Dune again, for the first time in a few years. I’m surprised to say that I enjoyed it a lot. The last time I read it, I found myself unable to shake the prose of…
Your Humble Blogger may be perfectly capable of perusing the new book shelf at the library without picking up a book with a title like The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, but why would such a capacity ever be…
One nice thing about the library’s perpetual book sale is that it does, on occasion, have a book that I have been wanting to read, or perhaps just wanting to have read, and there it is for a quarter or…
Well, and I’ve no idea when I actually re-read A Civil Campaign, but it was sometime in February. After finishing Komarr, which took me a while to get around to noting, but not this long. Anyway, after two weeks, I…
During a recent period of exhaustion and muzzy-headedness (which isn’t so much over as it might be, although I’ve pretty much decided not to indulge it any more), I fell happily into the arms of a couple of comfort books….
A month or so ago, Your Humble Blogger added to the old aggregator a terrific blog by Farah Mendlesohn about YA/SF. Well, children’s SF. Anyway, she wrote a very positive note about Kenneth Oppel’s book Airborn, so I checked it…