Pavane – Keith Roberts
This might be the most well-written book I disliked reading.
Fiction
The Atheist in the Attic – Samuel R Delany
What does it mean when you are struggling with a book that, by all descriptions, you should easily love?
The Hellbound Heart – Clive Barker
For a person who doesn’t care much for horror, I rather enjoyed this.
The Expert System’s Brother – Adrian Tchaikovsky
There is a lot buried in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Expert System’s Brother’
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Safe Drivers – Grant Naylor
A book that is a rehash of a TV show could be disappointing, unless it is a really good TV show.
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob) – Dennis E. Taylor
Some books challenge you directly. Other can challenge you indirectly.
The Aeneid – Virgil – Robert Fitzgerald (translator)
Epic poems are a medium well out of date, but Fitzgerald’s translation seems to hold a lot of fidelity to them.
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Speaker of the Dead – Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead won me over, despite a slow start.
The Snail on the Slope – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Every read something and feel like your education really wasn’t up to the task of understanding it?
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Space Opera – Catherine M. Valente
Exuberance! is a stylistic choice.
Failures in Polymathy 