I wanted to include this eBook-only novella in my Top 5 of 2014, not only because it’s a great story, but because I like the idea of authors finding homes for their less-lengthy work. Sleep Donation is set in the near future when an epidemic of fatal insomnia plagues America. A company called Slumber Corps collects “healthy sleep” from donors and uses it to cure the sleepless. For years, Trish Edgewater has worked for the company and telling the tale of her sister, Dori, who […]
Unique World Building.
This is a really unique book – recommended by iO9. (recommend io9.com ) It’s magic and it’s a bit steampunk but it’s also quite a bit modern in its thinking. No “medieval fantasy tropes” here. Our hero is Tara – recently graduated (and tossed out – literally) from the Hidden Schools as a “Craftswoman” – a type of magician. Very very skilled and smart. She makes her way home to the dirt town she grew up in to recover, but that doesn’t last […]
Sci-Fi retelling of the Cinderella tale
This is a retelling of the Cinderella tale which takes place in a far future on Earth in a place called “New Beijing”. Cinder is a Cyborg; a brilliant mechanic who works in the marketplace as the (apparently) sole source of income for her stepmother and sisters. She was adopted into her family by the father, who had the misfortune (of course) to die immediately afterward of a very fatal plague. Of course the family falls upon hard times and of course the stepmother and at […]
In Which I Read my First Steampunk Book (& kinda like it)
OK, so it’s 1916. King George has decided he wants America back. The kind has Albert Einstein building long-range zeppelins that can drop bombs. Nasty bombs that will help the invading English force re-conquer the U.S. In the States, everyone knows that war is coming, and Nicola Tesla is building something that he believes will end all wars – meaning to him that there will be no more war, or at least no more human cost. Not everyone sees the weapon that way, of course. […]
A time lord, a bounty hunter and a captain walk into a church…
I wish I had more Doctor Who novels, I could finish this thing up in true geek style.
Wherein incest is rampant, for reals, trigger warnings ahoy
I kicked ass at reading this year (151 so far, whaaaaaaat) but totally, totally failed when it came to writing reviews. But I wanted to post at least one because…futility is awesome? I don’t know guys, just go with it. When I first heard about Kate Wilhelm about a year ago, I was inclined to like her. “A female author writing sci-fi in the 60s/70s? Hell yeah, screw Heinlein!” Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is the third book by Kate Wilhelm that I have […]
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