Cordelia’s Honorby Lois McMaster Bujold608pp (Paperback)My Rating: 8/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.37/5Good Reads Rating: 4.26/5 Cordelia’s Honor contains the first two chronological novels in Lois McMaster Bujold’s Miles Vorkosigan series, Shards of Honor and Barrayar. These books could also be viewed as prequels to the series since they are not actually about the life of Miles but instead tell the story of how his parents met and how Miles came to be disfigured before birth. Shards of Honor is Bujold’s […]
This year’s Nebula Award winners have been announced on the Science Fiction Awards Watch Blog. The following is a list of the winners: Novel: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon (HarperCollins, May07) Novella: “Fountain of Age” – Nancy Kress (Asimov’s, Jul07) Novelette: “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” – Ted Chiang (F&SF, Sep07) Short Story: “Always” – Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov’s, Apr/May07) Script: Pan’s Labyrinth – Guillermo del Toro (Time/Warner, Jan07) Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction […]
The Miradorby Sarah Monette432pp (Hardcover)My Rating: 9/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.22/5Good Reads Rating: 3.92/5 To my great chagrin, The Mirador, the third book in Sarah Monette’s The Doctrine of Labyrinth series, is the last book in the series currently available. The fourth and final book Corambis has a projected publication date of sometime in 2009. The first two books in the series wrapped up a complete story arc and this novel takes place approximately two years after the end of […]
The Virtuby Sarah Monette512pp (Paperback)My Rating: 10/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.29/5Good Reads Rating: 3.93/5 Note: There may be spoilers for Melusine in this review. The Virtu, the second book in Sarah Monette’s The Doctrine of Labyrinth series, picks up where Melsuine left off and ties up all the loose ends from the first book. The series could have been brought to a satisfying conclusion with this book, but I am glad there is one more book out and one more […]
Barnes and Noble’s Center Stage Book Club is currently featuring George R.R. Martin. This means fans get to ask him questions and he tries to answer as many of them as he possibly can. The main focuses for questions are the new Wild Cards book Inside Straight, writing for television, and his books (which of course mostly consists of questions about the A Song of Ice and Fire series). If you haven’t heard of Center Stage (I only first heard […]
