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The Hidden Family
Charles Stross
The second book in Stross’ new fantasy series. This one wraps up the story started in the first.
The heroine spends much of this story in a third parallel world, building up interests to protect herself from the various people out to kill her.
This is very entertaining, well written fantasy and I’d recommend it to anyone interested in the genre.
Rating: A
Oh, yeah and I read The World According To Clarkson by Jeremy Clarkson too. I’m not proud. Oh and it was crap.
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08:13, September 27th 2005
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My Latest Novel – Saint Jude’s Infirmary
I’m friends with the guys in Saint Jude’s Infirmary and I turned up to this one as I’ve got a terrible record of attending their gigs. It’s the perils of commuting mostly, well that and my frequent bouts of avoiding social contacts as much as possible.
Saint Jude’s are incredibly tight these days and have built up a really good set of songs. They did well in spite of some sound issues. I also managed to take a few pictures of them playing (110 or so!) and some have turned out well. I’ll link to them once they’ve gone up on the band’s site.
My Latest Novel were much better in more intimate surroundings, but their songs still lack much in the way of punch. This is not a bad thing, but as a result, I still think that they’ll work best on record where the fluid dynamics of the songs can work their way into your head.
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16:20, September 3rd 2005
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Permutation City
Greg Egan
This one was a re-read.
The story is mainly about uploaded humans, insanity, guilt, alternate biochemistry in a virtual environment and other such everyday concerns.
The book is genuinely quite insightful, but I feel it no longer works as well as it did on my first couple of reads. This time round it felt like a long novella fleshed out with tenuously related short stories.
Definitely worth picking up if you’ve never read any of Egan’s work before. I used to think that he could end up a genuine SF great, but a few of his latest books have passed me by entirely.
Recommended for anyone who likes the hard, techy end of Science Fiction.
Rating: B-
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08:56, September 1st 2005