The Silver Metal Lover was a great introduction to Tanith Lee for me. This particular month, Vaginal Fantasy focused on a robot theme with authors questioning the power of love with an artificial being. This particular love story is about a young, naive rich girl named Jane. She lives a pretty sheltered life in a beautiful mansion in the sky with her mother. All her friends are jaded and mean, living quite the hedonistic lifestyle on their parents money. One day while walking with her gay friend Clovis, she comes across a […]
Shhhh…I liked the movie better.
This is a short one, so I squeezed it in before 2015. John Anderton is the head of Precrime, a department that uses three idiots savants/precogs to triangulate and anticipate crimes before they’re ever committed. Thanks to Precrime, violent crime is basically nonexistent in this world. The book starts with Anderton warily assessing a new employee who he quickly suspects of conspiring for his job and the Precrime department. In just a few pages, Anderton picks up a report from the precogs that he will shortly murder someone he doesn’t know. He hides […]
Connie Willis writes books for book lovers
I’m a little sad that I only heard of Connie Willis this year, of course from all the glowing CBR6 reviews of To Say Nothing of the Dog, which might be my new favorite book. After reading two more by Connie Willis, she is definitely my new favorite author. Connie Willis writes books that acknowledge and build on the wealth of information that already exists in the world. She writes about scholars, researchers, scientists, and historians. She writes about people who read extensively, people who know their librarians by their […]
That’s the Sound of Ideologies Clashing
Reading this novel took me back to middle and high school when I read a lot of science fiction—including Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, The Lathe of Heaven, etc. Like all good speculative fiction, it says as much about the time it was written (1974) as it does about the future. I missed that it was subtitled, “An Ambiguous Utopia,” but that seems a fitting title. Set in the far distant future where mankind (one assumes) has spread to many galaxies and planets, […]
A 10th Doctor Adventure
This is yet another of the 50th Anniversary books, one for each Doctor. This one has the 10th, plus Donna Noble and her family. The writer, Gary Russel, worked on Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Sarah Jane Adventures, so he’s familiar with the concepts, and does this sub-genre proud. Donna is home, getting ragged on by her mom, and catching up with her grandpa Wilf. He’s having a great time, because he has discovered a new star, and he got to name it. Wilf invites the […]
A 9th Doctor Adventure
This is yet another 50th Anniversary special book. It was written by Gareth Roberts & published in 2005. Roberts has written a few of my favorite episodes of the modern Doctor Who, including “The Shakespeare Code” and “The Unicorn and the Wasp.” (He also wrote “The Lodger,” which brought us Matt Smith’s gams). According to his bio, he also wrote for The Sarah Jane Adventures, a show I hope one day to see without having to pay for it. We know Roberts loves us, because […]
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