Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2013
Attention conservation notice: I have no taste.
- Ken MacLeod, The Restoration
Game
- Science fiction? A spy story about the continuity of empire, capitalist
and Communist? A meditation on recurring historical patterns and the dream of
mastering them? A contemporary story about how hard it is for a female
Scottish game-designer to find a decent boyfriend? Somehow it's all of the
above, and glorious. (I think only Comrade MacLeod could embed a historical
dialectic of class struggle into an epic fantasy and make it work.)
- Joe Hill, NOS4A2
- Mind candy: in which an alcoholic artist from New England and Colorado
attempts to rescue her innocent child from the transdimensional horror that is
Christmasland. It reads like a good (i.e., edited) Stephen King novel, which I
gather is not altogether a coincidence.
- Zoe Sharp, Killer Instinct
- Mind candy: crime thriller on the mean streets of Lancaster, with an
emphasis on detailed fight scenes. I saw two plot twists coming, but not a
third. I'll definitely look up sequels.
- Caitlin R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl
- Mind candy: horror novel in which a mentally ill painter becomes haunted by
an encounter with a woman who may or may not have been a sort of mermaid, or a
sort of werewolf, or just a reflection of the narrator not being very good
about taking her meds. Very little actually happens, and it's still remarkably
creepy.
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur;
Scientifiction and Fantastica;
Pleasures of Detection, Portraits of Crime
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