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I picked up Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan last night and trail-blazed the first 100 pages before I fell asleep. If I maintain my current pace, I should complete the novel before the end of the week (only 434 pages, with plenty of illustrations and large print, to [...] Paolo Bacigalupi has been making a name for himself in the science fiction community over the last half-dozen years, penning several short stories and collections preoccupied with the same dystopian future (he won two Locus awards for 2008’s Pump Six and Other Stories. In his debut novel,The Windup Girl, Bacigalupi expounds upon his vision of a world dependent on human muscle as its primary energy source. In this grim imagining of Earth’s future, the environment was devastated by global warming and rising [...] Another review coming, most likely on Monday, this time for the very satisfying debut novel from Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl. But for now, miscellaneous tidbits and morsels from around the web. Bon Appétit! Any old-school RPG’ers out there? Do you own an iPhone? If so, happy news. SquareEnix just announced that both Final Fantasy I [...] After 100 pages of The Windup Girl, exactly 8 chapters, I’m astounded. The buzz around the blogosphere has been very positive for this novel (expect awards now that we’ve reached the end of the year), and I can see why. Paolo Bacigalupi wields his brush brilliantly, painting a grim vision of a dystopian future, an [...] Jeff Vandermeer’s City of Saints and Madmen is a sometimes bewildering collection of works related to the fictional city of Ambergris. Almost immediately, it becomes apparent that this is not your typical fantasy; instead, Vandermeer’s literature is a bizarre amalgamation of fantasy, horror, and postmodern literary techniques. [...] More tidbits from around the web, some of it pretty exciting stuff! One of the more exciting announcement to hit the internet in the last few days: Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy has been optioned for film. I read Mistborn this fall, and I remember thinking, as I was reading the scene in which the Steel Inquisitors [...] Guy Gavriel Kay, a Canadian author with a dozen published manuscripts under his belt, has established himself as an author of “historical fiction,” or at least that’s the description often given to his novels. Tigana, set in a fictionalized version of medieval Italy, continues this [...] Another book-reading challenge for 2010 rears its bookish head, and this contest has the added bonus of obscure categories, which should help me branch out a bit when it comes to selecting my reading; I’m especially fond of the “new in 2010″ category, and the “recommended by another blogger” category. This challenge is courtesy of [...] After much-needed time off for the holidays, it’s time for me to throw together whatever tidbits have most recently garnered my attention. Without further ado, I bring you: A big, big explosion (Big bada boom!) jolted the Earth about five years ago (technically, it happened a little bit longer ago than that, more like 50,000 years [...] |
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