Category: Fiction

The People on Privilege Hill — Jane Gardam

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The People on Privilege Hill -- Jane Gardam

The People on Privilege Hill – 2009
Pangbourne – 2009
Babette – 2009
The Latter Days of Mr. Jones – 2009
The Flight Path – 2009
The Milly Ming – 2009
The Hair of the Dog – 2009
Dangers – 2009
Waiting for a Stranger – 2009
Learning to Fly – 2009
The Virgins of Bruges – 2009
The Fledgling – 2009
Snap – 2009
The Last Reunion – 2009

Jane’s Page

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Byrd Land Six — Alastair Reynolds

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Byrd Land Six -- Alastair ReynoldsYou’ll find this in the anthology, Deep Navigation.

In this short we’re off to an Antartic research station, in Marie Byrd Land: oh yeah, you get to learn about real stuff with Alastair.

Anyway, someone’s been playing with quantum entanglement and has totally messed all kinds of things up for the people at “Byrd Land Six”, and also on the Moon, where the other half of the entangled pair is residing.

Once again, super good sci-fi from a real physicist: we like!

Next up in the Alastair Reynolds timeline is Spirey and the Queen.

Alastair’s Page

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The Ringworld Engineers — Larry Niven

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The Ringworld Engineers -- Larry NivenOnce again, we’re treated to more Seventies kitsch sci-fi with bizarre humanoids added to the mix of bizarre non-humanoids: there’s even vampires in this one.

On top of the bizarre creatures we are now treated to a never ending list of utterly unpronounceable names, obviously to make sure that you understand that this is real sci-fi, not some lame sci-fi with easy names that humans can pronounce.   To be honest Larry finds all kinds of ways to ruin a really good story and concept, and if it wasn’t for the fact that this is such a good story with such a good concept i would have stopped reading long ago.

But instead of stopping i’m going to carry on with the next book, The Ringworld Throne, just because it is such a good story, and i’m already bracing myself for even more jibbledy babbledy names and even more fucked up Seventies kitsch sci-fi creatures.

Ho hum, the trials and tribulations of the sci-fi reader.   To be honest, i’ll be glad when this Ringworld series thing is over and i won’t ever be reading Larry Niven ever again.

Larry’s Page

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