In which I talk about Anne McCaffrey.  Among other things.

( I get to the point eventually, really I do! )

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Because
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I'm not sure why I enjoy a good post-apocalyptic story so much, but I do have a taste for them, with the excellence of Michaela Roessner's Vanishing Point being a high bar (though, strictly speaking, it's not exactly post-apocalyptic).*

And I adore H.M. Hoover.  Her books were probably the first sci-fi I read, and they are still solid despite ( Read more... )

Lois McMaster Bujold's Falling Free is set in the Vorkosigan universe, but a couple of centuries prior, which isn't quite as large a gap as it sounds.  I love this book because it is the genesis of some of my favorite folks in this universe, the quaddies--as well as for several other reasons.  *grin*

As always with Ms. Bujold's work, the story is ( Read more... )

I've read this one before, being fond of Laurie R. King's Mary Russell series if not her Kate Martinelli one.  (I have tried the latter, but couldn't care about the characters enough.)  This is mostly a Martinelli novel with a Russell story inserted in the middle, quite cleverly, and I enjoy it very much despite my one-sided tastes.

Mind you, the ( Read more... )

This started out as a comment, but it got long, and I decided to move it here.  So, thank you, aspidites, for prompting this!

Diane Duane wrote quite a few Star Trek novels, though I always hope that she will write more!  Well, I always hope she'll write more anything, frankly.  Fortunately for me, she does.

The Wounded Sky was lent to me almost twenty- ( Read more... )

Barbara Hambly's Ishmael is one of my favorites among the early Star Trek Pockets (#23).  It's a bit obvious, and it makes the rather glaring error of calling Vulcan "Vulcanis", but it's delicately, beautifully written, a must for Spock fans.  Good, old-fashioned time travel, better handled than such things often are (Terminator II, I'm looking at ( Read more... )

I've read Emma Bull's (coffeeem) more recent works, but I have to admit that I prefer her earlier stuff, though I'm not sure why.  War for the Oaks is urban fantasy at its best; a strong heroine, interesting conflicts, humor and darkness, and fae that are dangerous.  I adore the Phouka.  And I want everybody's clothes, even though they wouldn't fit me.

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Dilly Dilly Piccalilli
Tell me something very silly:
There was a chap his name was Bert
He ate the buttons off his shirt.

Father Fox's Pennyrhymes is delightfully illustrated and filled with tiny in-jokes.  And the rhymes are fun.  I have two copies of this one and every few years I pull one out and read it again, just for the sheer joy of it.

Here's ( Read more... )

Martha Bacon's The Third Road.  It's difficult to describe, and while it seems to be available through Amazon, there's no description that I can see.  I don't know that it's that out of the ordinary for a '70s children's fantasy, but for me it was special.

Three children go to visit their unusual grandparents in California.  They find a unicorn in ( Read more... )