February books
Back to a more usual reading rate this last month, but I still managed the following:
#10 The Anatomy of Utopia by Karoly Pinter, reviewed at SF Site
#11 The Restoration Game by Ken MacLeod, a novel that has one tremendous coup de theatre that comes about three quarters of the way through the novel. But this should have been the start of the story, and MacLeod uses it to close the story off. Up to this point it has been a fairly routine tale of an ordinary person getting caught up in dirty intelligence work. Disappointing.
#12 All the Lives he Led by Frederik Pohl, another disappointment, this one reviewed for Strange Horizons.
#13 Life on Mars edited by Jonathan Strahan, a YA anthology that I'm reviewing for Bull Spec.
#14 New Model Army by Adam Roberts. I think I've finally worked out how to read Roberts's fiction. I still think there are fatal flaws in this story (not least the overblown and rather incoherent ending) but the whole thing worked far better than anything else of his I've read.
#10 The Anatomy of Utopia by Karoly Pinter, reviewed at SF Site
#11 The Restoration Game by Ken MacLeod, a novel that has one tremendous coup de theatre that comes about three quarters of the way through the novel. But this should have been the start of the story, and MacLeod uses it to close the story off. Up to this point it has been a fairly routine tale of an ordinary person getting caught up in dirty intelligence work. Disappointing.
#12 All the Lives he Led by Frederik Pohl, another disappointment, this one reviewed for Strange Horizons.
#13 Life on Mars edited by Jonathan Strahan, a YA anthology that I'm reviewing for Bull Spec.
#14 New Model Army by Adam Roberts. I think I've finally worked out how to read Roberts's fiction. I still think there are fatal flaws in this story (not least the overblown and rather incoherent ending) but the whole thing worked far better than anything else of his I've read.