Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2011
Attention conservation notice: I have no taste.
- Jonathan Goodwin and John Holbo (eds.), Reading Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti
- I suppose it's a bit odd for me to recommend this, since I'm a contributor.
(Said contribution is this [
== that],
with cosmetic alterations.) But apart from that lapse on the part of the
organizers, it's very worthwhile. The full text is free online under a
Creative Commons license (follow the link), but the printed version is quite
handsome.
- V. S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy
- Mind-candy. Yet another Big Fat Fantasy Epic; better than average for that
sort of thing (good enough that I'll try the sequel), but not recommended for
those who aren't already into the sub-genre.
- Taylor Anderson, Rising Tides
- Mind-candy. "What these lemurs need is a boat-load of vintage
honkeys", continued. — It is a
striking testament to the moral regeneration of this country in the second half
of the twentieth century that, in order to make his white male American heroes
sympathetic to a contemporary audience, Anderson gives them views on race and
sex which would have marked them as extreme radicals in 1940. (Sequel.)
- Walter Jon
Williams, Deep State
- In which the hero of This Is Not a Game returns
to pit her skills against a military dictatorship. Connection to current
events is entirely fortuitous. (But WJW would have been a good addition to
the Blogs and Bullets workshop.)
- (Sequel.)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur;
Scientifiction and Fantastica;
The Commonwealth of Letters;
Writing for Antiquity;
Self-Centered
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