Showing posts with label Gene Wolfe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gene Wolfe. Show all posts
Sunday, June 7, 2026

Ursula Whitcher's NORTH CONTINENT RIBBON

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Sometimes there's a better way to show me the society, the world an author is imagining than via a single piece of narrative fiction. If...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Raymond St. Elmo's LETTERS FROM A SHIPWRECK IN THE SEA OF SUNS AND MOONS

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To a certain degree, I'm still trying to figure out the freaking ocean of words I just swam through, as I contemplate the very unusual a...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Christopher Ruocchio's KINGDOMS OF DEATH (Narr by Samuel Roukin)

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We've come a long way with Sir Lord Hadrian Half-Mortal Demon in White Marlowe since he was a young sprat who wanted to be a Scholiast j...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Christopher Ruocchio's HOWLING DARK (Narr by Samuel Roukin)

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I could already tell, less than halfway through the second volume of Christopher Ruocchio's Sun Eater series, that it's going to be ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Christopher Ruocchio's EMPIRE OF SILENCE (Narr by Samuel Roukin)

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Christopher Ruocchio cannot be reckoned an unambitious writer, if his debut novel, Empire of Silence ,  is anything to go by. Combining elem...
Monday, May 9, 2022

Ada Palmer's PERHAPS THE STARS

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Blogger's note: This post concerns the fourth novel of a quartet so it might not make a lot of sense if you haven't read my posts on...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

Ada Palmer's TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING: A NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2454 -- with an excursis on recasting audio narrators in a series

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Ada Palmer writes and plots like Dorothy Dunnett, imagines future politics like Malka Older, and plays mind games with her readers like Gene...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Michael Cisco's THE DIVINITY STUDENT

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I was sent to suffer and learn and to join the Eclogue. From dictaction: you split off and are the ghost sent to encounter my soul as a stra...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Roberto Bolaño's 2666: The Part About the Crimes (tr by Natasha Wimmer)

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Blogger's note: I'm covering this giant doorstop of a novel part by part. This post is the fourth of five. To read prior entries in ...
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