I'm not quite sure why I got this, given my low opinion of the editor's fiction andnon-fiction; I certainly bought it before last year's debate about the tainted Solaris brand, and without looking inside the front cover where the dismal gender ratio (one female author out of 18) might have put me off ( Read more... )

There are precisely three Library Thing users who have logged copies of Enemies of the System, by Brian Aldiss. All three of us are also the only Library Thing Users to have logged Aldiss' short story collection, Space, Time and Nathaniel and his novel Earthworks, and also - this one really did surprise me - we are the only Library Thing users to ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my heavy panel day, in that I was on one with ianmcdonald, Ian McLeod and James Lovegrove at 10 am on "The Breakup of Britain", and then moderating another with a more European theme at 11 with Harry Turtledove, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Keith Brooke and Patrick Gyger. The first one was fairly full; the second, in a much bigger hall with over 200 ( Read more... )

8) Keepers of the Peace, by Keith Brooke

Keith is the very nice guy who edits the infinity plus website - I didn't realise that he was also an author, and snapped this up when I saw it, oh, somewhere recently. A straightforward young-soldier's-rite-of-passage tale, a la Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Haldeman's The Forever War, or Lucius Shepard's ( Read more... )

Waiting for me this morning, to review for infinity plus:

The Holy Machine, Chris Beckett; River of Gods, Ian McDonald; Newton's Wake, Ken MacLeod; Jupiter: Ganymede Spring 2004; The Human Abstract, George Mann; Tolkien: A Look Behind the Lord of the Rings, Lin Carter; Beyond Infinity, Gregory Benford; and Cartomancy, Mary Gentle.

[edit: crazysoph, thanks ( Read more... )