Some dude did a pretty good review of Carnival covering the two or three issues I had with it (the Little Lad That Could, for one). There's lots of ROT13 but finding a translator shouldn't be difficult. Of course, if you're particularly Transcendent (or patient anyway), you can probably do it in your head ( Read more... )

Not quite ready to review Elizabeth Bear's Carnival yet (that's going to require at least a third reading) but I will say this - have I said this before - I'm not sure I've seen any other writer who so consistently and overtly gets better from one book to the next ( Read more... )