Archive for the 'Reading Recommendations' Category
Reading Recommendation: Matchmaker, by Erin Hartshorn
I listened to this in the podcast version over at Clarkesworld. It’s a lovely tale. I’m enchanted with it becasue it directly addresses alien race relations through the eyes of a race that has been persecuted here. I can’t say much more without spoilers, but it’s a brave story, well-told, and also narrated quite nicely [...]
Reading Recommendation: River Marked by Patricia Briggs
I love Coyote stories. I love Patricia Brigg’s work. This book is both. It may be the best of the Mercy series so far. This is, by the way, what I did last Sunday afternoon. I sat in a big comfy chair, put my foot up (still recovering from surgery) , and read the thing [...]
Mayan (er…Aztec) Reading: Servant of the Underworld, by Aliette de Bodard
I’m busy reading books and stories set either in 2012 or in the Yucatan Peninsula. I read Aliette de Bodard’s Nebula nominated novelette, “The Jaguar House, In Shadow” and loved it so much that I went right to her novel “Servant of the Underworld.” It’s a bit of a cheat for this post series because [...]
Reading Recommendation: Nnedi Okorafor’s “Who Fears Death”
While finishing up as much Nebula Awards reading as possible, I ordered and then devoured Nnedi Okorafor’s powerful novel “Who Fears Death.” Interestingly enough, her story that I recommended a few posts ago, “The Book of Phoenix” fits into this novel. The world-building is phenomenal, full of symbolism and magic and yet close enough for [...]
Reading Recommendation: Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix….
The whole title is The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book). I listened to this as a podcast on the way over to the Rainforest Writer’s Retreat. It was quite awesome. I don’t really want to say too much about it since it’s not very long, but I like it a lot. And, [...]
Reading Recommendation: Mozart’s Blood, by Louise Marley
Louise Marley is a good friend and we sometimes share bits of writing with each other. So I saw Mozart’s Blood born a few years ago. I hadn’t read it all the way through, or even seen the last half at all. My theme for recovery has been “read the things you want to read” [...]
Reading Recommendation: M.K. Hobson’s The Native Star
First, sorry for not posting much lately — recovering from a non-threatening surgery that’s kept me from sitting well since my foot needs to be up. Have been writing a lot, but fiction rather than this kind of stuff. That’s probably a good thing. I’ve also had more time for reading and I’m tearing through [...]
Bibliography: The Research Behind Mayan December
I did a lot of research for my novel Mayan December (coming out from Prime Books in August). This isn’t usual for me. For most of my science fiction stories, I research all the time. I go on jags where I read science articles from National Geographic to Wired to The Technology Review to various [...]
Reading Recommendation: Paolo Bacigalupi’s “Ship Breaker”
Paolo does really good near-future science fiction. I particularly liked Ship Breaker since it felt a little lighter than Paolo’s other books, and was a much faster and easier read. That, of course, if probably because his primary audience is YA. Mind you, I’ve loved his darker and more difficult work like The Windup Girl [...]
Reading Recommendation: Seanan McGuire’s October Daye novels
Now, these are my candy reads. I follow Devon Monk’s series about magic in Portland, and Patricia Brigg’s Mercy Thompson series, and even though they write fast, I run out of novels before their next ones show up. These are not for my brain – I read plenty of that kind of stuff, too. These [...]
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