Looking to get lost in a book series unlike any other? Gene Wolfe’s The Book Of The New Sun might be for you.
It is one of the key works of Fantasy of the past forty years and is immediately exciting based on how it blends a medieval-tinged Fantasy world that is set thousands of years in the future, in a time after a long forgotten apocalypse where the Earth is now called the "Urth" and is so old the sun is dying and much of the technological and scientific advances of modern time and the future have been lost or forgotten.
The four book series subverts, elevates and transcends genres, telling the story of Severian, a young apprentice torturer who falls in love with one of his victims. His punishment for allowing her a qui...
It is one of the key works of Fantasy of the past forty years and is immediately exciting based on how it blends a medieval-tinged Fantasy world that is set thousands of years in the future, in a time after a long forgotten apocalypse where the Earth is now called the "Urth" and is so old the sun is dying and much of the technological and scientific advances of modern time and the future have been lost or forgotten.
The four book series subverts, elevates and transcends genres, telling the story of Severian, a young apprentice torturer who falls in love with one of his victims. His punishment for allowing her a qui...
- 5/4/2022
- QuietEarth.us
That I devoured Star Wars Aftermath in just over a day probably speaks to how much I was anticipating it and my overall interest in where Star Wars is going post-Return of the Jedi in the new canon, stepping on and all over Timothy Zahn’s galaxy and mythos expanding and just plain damn good Heir to the Empire from 1991.
Let’s make the jump to light speed and get to this — did Chuck Wendig fill the shoes?
I’m going to skip a lengthy prologue about Aftermath and personal peripherals that I brought with me into the book and just get into what’s actually in Chuck Wendig’s book. If you want to read a bit about where I’m coming from as a Star Wars fan, in particular in regards to the late expanded universe, you can read some thoughts I had after reading an excerpt...
Let’s make the jump to light speed and get to this — did Chuck Wendig fill the shoes?
I’m going to skip a lengthy prologue about Aftermath and personal peripherals that I brought with me into the book and just get into what’s actually in Chuck Wendig’s book. If you want to read a bit about where I’m coming from as a Star Wars fan, in particular in regards to the late expanded universe, you can read some thoughts I had after reading an excerpt...
- 9/9/2015
- by Jay Tomio
- Boomtron
I’m not too into looking at excerpts – though sometimes I make exceptions – mostly because I get enough galleys/Arc’s to fulfill any desire — that I don’t even really have anyway — of checking out things that I want early to really even keep up with excerpt releases, much less read them.
Update: Check out my review of Star Wars Aftermath — and don’t forget to read about the actual good parts of it.
It was the reaction to the world’s first look at Star Wars: Aftermath that made me check it, though I’m not sure why because I’ve given up on honest or at least fruitful immediate reaction, especially when it concerns writing.
People who don’t write think they can with time, and many people who do have the time and write, still can’t. Typically people who have the time to respond...
Update: Check out my review of Star Wars Aftermath — and don’t forget to read about the actual good parts of it.
It was the reaction to the world’s first look at Star Wars: Aftermath that made me check it, though I’m not sure why because I’ve given up on honest or at least fruitful immediate reaction, especially when it concerns writing.
People who don’t write think they can with time, and many people who do have the time and write, still can’t. Typically people who have the time to respond...
- 7/22/2015
- by Jay Tomio
- Boomtron
I’m not too into looking at excerpts though sometimes I make exceptions mostly because I get enough galleys/Arc’s to fulfill any desire – that I don’t even really have anyway – of checking out things that I want early to really even keep up with excerpt releases, much less read them.
It was the reaction to the world’s first look at Star Wars: Aftermath that made me check it, though I’m not sure why because I’ve given up on honest or at least fruitful immediate reaction, especially when it concerns writing.
People who don’t write think they can with time, and many people who do have the time and write, still can’t. Typically people who have the time to respond several times over the course of an Entertainment Weekly piece about writing, where an excerpt from Star Wars: Aftermath made its way online,...
It was the reaction to the world’s first look at Star Wars: Aftermath that made me check it, though I’m not sure why because I’ve given up on honest or at least fruitful immediate reaction, especially when it concerns writing.
People who don’t write think they can with time, and many people who do have the time and write, still can’t. Typically people who have the time to respond several times over the course of an Entertainment Weekly piece about writing, where an excerpt from Star Wars: Aftermath made its way online,...
- 7/22/2015
- by Jay Tomio
- Boomtron
I usually review the weekly Valiant releases separately but I think it’s understandable that after the first issues or arcs that a lot of needless repetition can and often will occur in terms of opinion on theme or backdrop. It’s why I personally have always found issue by issue reviews at even places like Newsarama and Cbr to be largely useless, usually not offering anything that a publisher’s synopsis doesn’t already cover. It becomes a grind. After the first issues we kind of get it unless we are talking about event comics, and I don’t mean just company wide crossovers but also works that are introducing something new, either in character or big picture direction, like an Identity Crisis or even Valiant’s current Divinity miniseries, which feels like both an event and cosmic vignette at the same time. I feel for the most part...
- 5/19/2015
- by Jay Tomio
- Boomtron
Once again, those few benighted souls relying on Antick Musings for their skiffy-world news have been poorly served, but here’s the most recent clutch of awards given out in our realms:
Robert A. Heinlein Award
This is both a fairly new award — barely a decade old — and one given for a body of work, rather than a specific piece of fiction, which means it has gone to pretty much exactly who we all would have predicted it would, in pretty much the same order. The award is given, officially, for “outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space” — Nasa propaganda, essentially.
This year’s winner is Stanley Schmidt, long-time editor of Analog, and, in best Heinlein fashion, the award itself is a whopping great medallion that Schmidt will be expected to wear as much as he can — or, at least, the...
Robert A. Heinlein Award
This is both a fairly new award — barely a decade old — and one given for a body of work, rather than a specific piece of fiction, which means it has gone to pretty much exactly who we all would have predicted it would, in pretty much the same order. The award is given, officially, for “outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space” — Nasa propaganda, essentially.
This year’s winner is Stanley Schmidt, long-time editor of Analog, and, in best Heinlein fashion, the award itself is a whopping great medallion that Schmidt will be expected to wear as much as he can — or, at least, the...
- 6/8/2012
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
The lingering memory of my year of blogging for the Sfbc — which ended five years ago, so I really should be over it by this point — still compels me to post SFnal awards, even when I do so far too late to benefit anyone. What can I say? I’m a flawed person.
Anyway, here’s some recent awards that you probably already know about:
2011 Aurealis Awards
The Australian national awards for Sf and other imaginative literature were given out three weeks ago (I know, I know!), and the full list has been available since then.
Here’s the novel-length awards, just because:
Young Adult Novel: Only Ever Always, by Penni Russon Fantasy Novel: Ember and Ash, by Pamela Freeman Science Fiction Novel: The Courier’s New Bicycle, by Kim Westwood
(via Sf Signal)
Analog and Asimov’s Reader’s Awards
The same weekend as the Nebulas (suddenly suspicious — did I blog about the Nebulas?...
Anyway, here’s some recent awards that you probably already know about:
2011 Aurealis Awards
The Australian national awards for Sf and other imaginative literature were given out three weeks ago (I know, I know!), and the full list has been available since then.
Here’s the novel-length awards, just because:
Young Adult Novel: Only Ever Always, by Penni Russon Fantasy Novel: Ember and Ash, by Pamela Freeman Science Fiction Novel: The Courier’s New Bicycle, by Kim Westwood
(via Sf Signal)
Analog and Asimov’s Reader’s Awards
The same weekend as the Nebulas (suddenly suspicious — did I blog about the Nebulas?...
- 6/4/2012
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
I enjoy reading short fiction; it’s remarkable how much world building and ambiance can fit into a small piece. I usually look forward to Daw anthologies, because they’re themed but the themes are loose enough to offer a wide interpretation, which leads to some very interesting stories. The news that Martin H. Greenberg had passed away last Saturday made me feel sad, because his name is one of the ones that I regularly search for when I’m book shopping, trolling through the shelves and websites to find my next anthology.
Boondocks Fantasy is billed as “urban fantasy” that takes place in rural or isolated areas. That’s honestly what it says in the introduction. I think a couple of brain cells popped when I read that, because I know what urban means, and I know how utterly nonsensical that explanation really is. It’s so clear that politicians could have written it.
Boondocks Fantasy is billed as “urban fantasy” that takes place in rural or isolated areas. That’s honestly what it says in the introduction. I think a couple of brain cells popped when I read that, because I know what urban means, and I know how utterly nonsensical that explanation really is. It’s so clear that politicians could have written it.
- 7/7/2011
- by dragonwomant
- Boomtron
Gene Wolfe is famous for science fiction and fantasy novels that do a minimal amount of hand-holding. He often dispenses world-building details via brief bits of dialogue or narrative asides that readers may not even realize are important until much later. His plots can become almost impenetrably dense, as incident piles atop incident, and his characters are rarely spelled out in easy-to-digest chunks of text. Wolfe expects his readers to do the work, and when he’s on his game, there’s nothing like reading one of his books in either genre. His prose is vivid, his characters well-conceived, and ...
- 2/24/2011
- avclub.com
At Bea last week, BSCreview captured a video highlight of Paizo Publishing’s Pathfinder table-top role-playing game, including modules and additional content, as well as the Pathfinder fiction novels forthcoming 2010. BSCreview would like to thank Erik Mona of Paizo Publishing for providing us with this great promo spot. Head on over to Paizo’s website and [...]
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- 6/3/2010
- by B.T. Robertson
- Boomtron
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