Being largely unschooled in young adult and middle-grade fiction, I decided to add some to my rotation. And since I trust Ian McDonald’s track record, I thought what better place to start than his YA debut Planesrunner (2011), a colorful science fiction adventure, first in the Everness series. Everett Singh is the hero, a precocious, [...]
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If you had told me three years ago that I would have gotten this blog to 500 posts, I don’t think I would have believed you. But here we are: five hundred posts of wordy review-y media junkie pop culture goodness, awwww yeah! As it turns out, not giving a shit about whether people give [...]
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Ian McDonald has been working his way up my list of favorite SF writers over the past few years, and The Dervish House (2010) just brought him that much closer to the top. Both in the impressive Brasyl and the spectacular River of Gods, McDonald has proven himself to be one of the field’s most [...]
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I used to follow Gardner Dozois‘ year’s best anthology — arguably the annual standard-bearer for quality short fiction in the genre — pretty steadily, but I got out of the habit a while ago. I used to read much more heavily at shorter lengths, and there was easily enough crossover between the magazines and Dozois’ [...]
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