The promised Fantasy of Manners report.

After yet another episode in the long and dull Quest for a TV Stand (upshot: still no new TV stand), I stopped in at Borders because, well, I was there, and I thought I should get books 3-6 of Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series while they were still all on the shelf. And what do I find, to my great squeeing, but a copy of The Grand Tour (which as- ( Read more... )

From the Noreascon 4 Preliminary Program:

Saturday 11:00am: Fantasy of Manners

How do we define it? How do we draw the line, and what is its appeal? Is it a truth (universally acknowledged...) that only women can write it?

You sure you can't make it to Worldcon?

(Kidding! But this is just the kick-in-the-pants I need to re-read Swordspoint ( Read more... )

Normally I don't post separate notices of book log updates here, but having just cleared my backlog by adding seven books in one swell foop, I thought I'd make an exception this time.

There for your reading pleasure are my comments on:

• The Hot Rock, by Donald Westlake
• Issola, by Steven Brust
• The Element of Fire, by Martha Wells
• The League of ( Read more... )

Okay, second stab at a reading list for fantasy of manners ( Read more... )

This is the first stab at a reading list for the fantasy of manners / mannerpunk subgenres that I talked post-before-last. Any more suggestions, descriptions of things I haven't read, etc.? I'm hoping to put this up on a web site as a resource.

Update: superseded by new draft.
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