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Got hold of a review copy of this. Couldn't put it down. Only downside? Over a year to wait for the next part.... Awesome. Well done AJS

I started and finished Great North Road while on holiday, and loved it, but then I've been a fan of Hamilton's work since the Mandel series. I've now...

Immersion is in my opinion a ´Zeitgeist´ story. Touching on themes that are important at the moment, a bit like Liu´s Paper Menagerie last year. I...

Finished Alison Croggon's Black Spring last night. It's like Wuthering Heights (a named reference) crossed with magic. It's really not the usual kind...

I just finished the enjoyable "All the Paths of Shadow" by Frank Tuttle, with a strong lead and a decent amount of humor. Ordered by the king to...

I'm sure I will. I like every book he's put out. Some more than others, but I enjoyed them all. Still reading The Golem and the Jinni by Helene...

Agreed, Kat. Every character, even the main one, is an artificial construction which has SOME function in the story (though it may not be a symbolic...

The good news is that the more you write the better matters become. In two ways. In one, your writing becomes better. After seven books (the first...

Finished Herald of the Storm by R. Ford and I read the last 250 pages in a sitting as they were really compulsive; the writing was still a bit raw...

Yeah, that sort of puts me off - I don't want to waste 500 pages waiting for it to get going. That's a whole novel or so already! Maybe why I've...

Just finished reading Eric Brown's latest, The Serene Invasion - technologically advanced aliens come to Earth with the purpose of creating a world...

Star Trek Into Darkness. I am not a hard core Trek guy (more of a Star Wars/LOTR fanboy) so I enjoyed it alot - just missed being on par with the...

You said that if you brought up the topic of using SF novels and stories in science education, which I had felt you had done before, as opposed to...

I write fast too. Just did 5 chapters, 19,000 words of my fourth book in three days. But I do have my wife read it all right then and comment early...

To quote Amy Tan, bestselling and award-winning author (who occasionally uses fantasy magic realism style): I sincerely hope that this...

I have a tendency to write ridiculously fast. That said, I don't slow down enough to think if what I'm writing is crap or not. When I did that...

Finally time was on my side and I was able to get some words written. Dag nab it. I've gotten 10,000 in the past few days, but I'm still way behind...

Good Neighbors and Other Strangers by Edgar Pangborn I first read this collection in the late 1970s and read it again in the early 1980s. At the...

As always, I checked out the short story nominations. This year, there were only three nominations and one of them is not available for free as they...

In that one, DDC, it's about 500. Stick with it...

This was being discussed in the 1950s http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sce.3730430106/abstract So what if it was deliberately...

Yeah, Sawyer carries on the old time tradition. I have read a number of his novels but none of his short stories but it doesn't surprise me if his...

As you liked the original Magician series then you'll probably like the Empire trilogy written with Janny Wurts. It's set on Kelewan at about the...

Actually, I've found some fairly recent stuff that has served my purpose pretty well. I've used a story by Gregory Benford called "Sanctuary" and a...

I recently finished Exile and Glory by Jerry Pournelle. It's a collection of short stories and one novella strung together by a common theme, escape...