Jonathan Green – Unnatural History
With this, Abaddon[1] Press’s first in the Pax Britannia[2] series, another patchwork cadaver gets unceremoniously slung on the creaking, lurching bandwagon of steampunk. I had this pressed upon me as...
View ArticleTriumff, Her Majesty’s Hero – Dan Abnett
The premise of this particular alternate history is that the discovery of Scientific Principles of Magick means nothing much has changed since the 1590s or so. Elizabeth I did end up marrying Philip of...
View ArticleSomtow Sucharitkul – The Aquiliad
This is one of Somtow’s early books, and in a 1983 edition (first, I think) from before he began publishing as SP Somtow. Really, the man is incredibly, ridiculously multitalented. It’s actually the...
View ArticleHoliday reading
I’ve just come back from two weeks in the Scottish Highlands, so here’s a brief roundup of what I was reading while I was there. (Some of it, anyway—the ones that interested me enough to post about.)...
View ArticlePaul Hoffman – The Left Hand of God
I was pleased to find this in the library yesterday, since I’ve been seeing strongly negative reviews from a lot of people since it came out, and wanted to see what all the anti-fuss was about. Having...
View ArticleLavie Tidhar – The Bookman
Angry Robot, 416pp paperback. Out in the UK since January 2010, published in the US and in ebook form October 2010. “This is the time of myths, Orphan. They are the cables that run under the floors and...
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