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Look, it's National Poetry Month! I will participate by picking at things ( Read more... )

This is the first one of Bear's books that I've read, and I found it to be a solidly enjoyable. Large cast, but not hard to keep straight, and enough twists and turns in the plot that things never flagged ( Read more... )

So. Maul. I'm ready now to be slightly less succinct than I was the last time.

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...dude, WTF?

I've just discovered that John Aegard, author of the " The Golden Age of Fire Escapes" has a bunch of his stories available on his webpage: www.johnzo.com.

First, if you haven't read " The Golden Age of Fire Escapes," go now immediately to that place and put the words into your brain. I love this story. It has the energy of old pulps, but with heart ( Read more... )

So bondgwendabond opened a discussion on books your younger self read that you're now embarrassed for them for loving, and one of the first things I thought of was David (and though I didn't know it at the time, Leigh) Edding's epic fantasy boy-with-a-birthmark dual series, The Belgariad and The Malloreon ( Read more... )

Oh god, I feel like the beauty of this book is going to stop my heart.