Binti Home by Nnedi OkoraforTaking a break from her studies at Oozma Uni, Binti takes a trip back to Earth to visit her family, taking her Meduse friend Okwu with her. This will be first time her family has seen her since her transformation on the trip out; how will they react? And how will Binti react to them? Has she outgrown her old home and ( Read more... )

Deathstalker Rebellion: being the second part of the life and times of Owen Deathstalker by Simon R. GreenThe second of the Deathstalker series is divided into two major parts, each centred around one group of rebels, though other members of the extended cast may appear. In the first, Owen and Hazel head to Golgotha to attack the Imperial ( Read more... )

Die Buying: a mall cop mystery by Laura DiSilverioFormer military cop Emma-Joy "EJ" Harris earned an honourable discharge when an IED injures her leg. Rejected by the civilian police forces she applied to, and unable to live with her Hollywood rich family, she winds up moving to Veronville (state unknown; it's probably mentioned in the text ( Read more... )

Master of the House Of Darts: Obsidian and Blood Vol. III by Aliette deBodardOne of the disadvantages of reading and writing about so many books is that it's sometimes hard to find the entries when you need them. I'm fairly sure that I've written about at least the first book of this series, but I can't find where ( Read more... )

Prime by Poppy Z Brite

A re-read. The original write-up is here (on LJ) and here (on DW). Still highly recommended -- more highly, actually, since the good Doctor Brite could use the money these days.

A Confederation of Valor: Valor's Choice/The Better Part of Valor by Tanya HuffA re-read, but not one I wrote up before. This is, of course, a ( Read more... )

The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter

I originally wasn't going to pick The Long Earth up; though it is by Pratchett it is by Pratchett and, and my experiences with collaborations involving favourite authors have not always been good (:cough:AndreNorton:cough:). But I picked up A Blink Of The Screen, Pratchett's collection of short ( Read more... )

Deathstalker by Simon R. Green

Deathstalker is a re-read, but from back in the days before I started keeping track. I briefly mentioned one of the later books in the series back in 2004 (just over ten years ago!) and I wasn't even calling them "Read Recently" then ( Read more... )

Kris Longknife: Mutineer by Mike Shepherd

Re-read of the first book in the series, first discussed here (LJ) and here (at DW). My opinions haven't changed since then.

Shadowfall: book one of the Godslayer Chronicles by James Clemens

Meet the first book to go unread in the new year! Yay!

Shadowfall posits a world filled with gods, some of ( Read more... )

Fledgling: a new Liaden Universe novel by Sharon Lee & Steve MillerPlanet Delgado is a "safe" world, which is to say that it is long-settled and highly civilized. Its primary industry is its high-class university; life within the University walls (aka within "the Wall") is indeed safe, but can be somewhat stifling if one is a clumsy teenager not ( Read more... )

Twisted Metal by Tony Ballantyne

Surprisingly, not a tie-in to the oddly popular evil-clown* combat-racing videogame series by the same title. Instead, it's a work of soft SF, positing a world inhabited by sentient robots. These are humanoid robots, too, and they reproduce and die and have a mythology about how they came to be in the world ( Read more... )