I don’t read a whole lot of litblogs, but one of the few that I do is http://www.chasingray.com/ . Colleen wrote such a glowing review of this book that I asked our teen librarian to buy a copy when...that are being raised while you’re racing to see if Sophie and Mikael make it through, but though the setting is historical, the issues are still blazingly relevant. This is a rare and delightful gem
Heaven's Net Is Wide , Lian Hearn This is the prequel to the stunning Tales of the Otori - Across the Nightingale Floor . Grass for His Pillow , Brilliance of the Moon and The Harsh Cry of the...why it shaped the future we have already read. Even though I knew, in general, everything that was going to happen, I simply couldn't put the book down until I'd finished it. Simply beautiful.
Nation by Terry Pratchett Everything can change in an instant. As plague sweeps through London, devastating the royal line, the Heir to the Throne must be retrieved from the New...not be the first Robinson Crusoe-esque adventure I’d recommend, but if it interests you, go for it. To read more about Nation , buy it or add it to your wishlist, click here.
I've come up a twist on the DCU and a twist on the Marvel Universe. The first thing for the DC Universe is that Batman becomes the model of heroes, as opposed to Superman. This creates a darker-edged...ultimately are drawn into dangerous games with another character who is part of my interconnected multiverse, Ravcel Kerigstophros of the Greater Bizjarran Empire, prior to her Shades of Grey adventure
What Actually Happened : After World War I, the US was in a position to quickly displace the British Royal Navy as the strongest naval power in the world. The US had enough powerful modern battleships...World War II approximately on schedule? If so, how is that war different from the historic one? Who wins? Do we end up with more cool battleship versus battleship naval battles? .
The era of battleships overlapped the era of biplanes from shortly before World War I until maybe early1942, when all of the major combatants except to some extent Italy had phased out biplanes, and battleships...into mass-production of much superior fighter plane, and opposing airforces were scrambling to catch up. We might still have a World War II, but it might be postponed or take a very different shape.
At Pacificon/ConQuest, I had the great fun of listening to John Hill lecture on the underrated Union General Benjamin F. Butler. Before that, I only knew him by his New Orleans "Beast" reputation, although...sufficiently that Grover Cleveland doesn't become President -- he was a decent guy and a pretty good President, considering the economic cataclysm visited upon him through no fault of his own
Title: KUSHIEL'S AVATAR Author: Jacqueline Carey Series: book three of Kushiel's Legacy Publisher: Tor Pages: 750 Publication Date: 2003 Price: $10.99 CAD, Status: keeper Amazon...the R.I.P. III and Fall Into Reading Challenges. Click here to see my other posts relating to R.I.P. III. And if you've reviewed this book on your blog, please let me know so I can link to it!
* I'm back from Omaha, where I drove for my niece's wedding. Hence the dissociation, no doubt; a man doesn't just come out of an Omaha wedding the same kind of man he was going into it. Sure, we've all...idiot; the end result is a rather catastrophic loss of sympathy for Carmichael and of belief in Walton's world. The first is no great wound, but Walton's excellent AH worldbuilding chops deserve better
Series: The Missing Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2008 Genre: Science fiction Sub-genre: Alternate history/time travel, YA Rating: 3 1/2 pints of blood So I've apparently been living under a rock...abruptly, leaving readers hanging until the next installment is published in 2009. If cliffhangers annoy you as much as they do me, you may want to wait until the second volume comes out to read this one
