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rivkat

Why I love my car - and reviews

Jan 17, 2005 10:21

O my Honda Civic Hybrid -- I love you because when I took misterrivkat to the airport for his trip to Iceland, we left DC at 4:15 and I spent until around 6:30 navigating the usual, moderately awful DC-area rush hour in DC, Maryland, DC again and then Virginia ( Read more... )

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Stross, Butler accommodatingly January 17 2005, 16:38:29 UTC

One of my sfwg students read Stross and was less than impressed-- similar take to yours: neat wacky technology, but way too much detail, and libertarian to the point of silliness.

I'm in the middle of Parable of the Sower right now and I like it too. Bleak bleak bleak, as most of Butler appears to be. (Sf for grownups?) It's about the fifth Butler I've read: of the others, my favorite by a lot is Mind of My Mind. I think you'd like it too. (Lots of plot; lots of peril; slightly less our-whole-society-is-going-smash, not to say that it isn't going smash.)

misterrivkat January 17 2005, 20:09:57 UTC

Sweetie, I love you, but I'm in Iceland. Good thing you were just driving the car, not flying the plane.

Mr. R.

On fin Ice agarttha January 17 2005, 21:18:29 UTC

Misterrivkat reaches cold country in the north of Europe.

Re: On fin Ice rivkat January 17 2005, 21:36:20 UTC

Yeah, I kind of knew that, but mistyped in my haste to get out the door. That will teach me to skip the final editorial read of my posts!

ex_niciasus652 January 19 2005, 00:47:33 UTC

Would you mind recommending books similar to the Carol Berg's series. I truly enjoy reading them and would like to read something similar. Perhaps a series with slashy overtone.

rivkat January 19 2005, 15:10:04 UTC

Lynn Flewelling has a trilogy with actual m/m romance that's of the same general type, as well as two books of a new series that is slashy, in a way. C.S. Friedman writes books with the same emotional intensity; the slashiest is her trilogy that starts with "Black Sun Rising." More SF, but heavy on the psychological angst, is Susan R. Mathews, whose series starts with "Prisoner of Conscience." That's the most I can think of offhand, but I'll see if anything else pops to mind.

ex_niciasus652 January 19 2005, 22:11:24 UTC

Thanks for the recs!

raveninthewind January 25 2005, 09:14:35 UTC

heavy on the psychological angst

Not to mention the graphic torture.

But Mathews is readable, which is more than I can say for the majority of writers who have a sadist as a protagonist. For that alone I must salute her skills.

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re Butler raveninthewind January 25 2005, 09:06:46 UTC

I've been a longtime reader (I read Patternmaster in junior high), although I haven't read all her books. Her vision tends to the dystopic, but she can certainly suck a reader in. The Xenogenesis trilogy is my favorite.

Recently I picked up Bloodchild: And Other Stories. I liked the title story the best, which was basically an mpreg, followed by "Speech Sounds," a story about life after a disease destroys the human ability to speak and transforms society.

Re: re Butler rivkat January 25 2005, 19:27:49 UTC

I've read and enjoyed Bloodchild, and I read Speech Sounds in a different anthology -- it was part of why I picked up the novels again after my initial exposure. Patternmaster struck me as less successful -- I don't think I've put up my review of it yet, though -- and I'm in the middle of the Lilith Iyapo trilogy, which is probably the same thing as Xenogenesis.