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Travel allows one plenty of time to read Having spent some six or seven weeks this summer traveling, I churned through quite a bit of reading material without time to review it here on the blog. Rather than subject you all to a lengthy backlog of discourses on half-remembered
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A Strange House in the Republic of Heaven How much love can one bear to have for a book which will only ever be half-finished? No matter how long I wait or how wrenchingly I romance the text, this first half is all there is of Aspects, and all
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Touring the Mediterranean, Sexual-Style In 2024 I read Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey because I’d found it in a tiny free library. But really I read it because ads for the book had haunted me from tweenhood, twining alluringly through the pages of my mid-aughties Dragon
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Last week: the plot of A Mirror for Observers. This week: the point of A Mirror for Observers. Every week: some weird thing you've never heard of. Relevance? How do the musings of a 1950s-produced alien bear upon the world of 2026? AMfO has its highs and
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I Needed This Edgar Pangborn: you would think more people might remember him on account of having such a weird name, but he is a now-little-known mid-century science fiction author. To the degree that anyone knows him, he is known for the pastoral themes of his writing,
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Last week we pondered why I'd rate a book which took me an entire year to finish over a new awards-darling I finished easily in two weeks. As it turns out, sometimes what makes reading easy is when the content is simply not that deep despite the
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Reading A Drop of Corruption and Memory together Last year, during my ill-fated and soul-crushing encounter with the 2025 Hugo nominees, I accused Robert Jackson Bennett of writing a book redolent with fasco-libertarian dogwhistles: The Tainted Cup. Not an unentertaining book full of fasco-libertarian dogwhistles, so
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Reviewing How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore It often seems most history books intended for the general audience are written with moms in mind, unless they’re about World War II or Abraham Lincoln. Nothing else could tempt a sixty-something dad out of his beer garage.
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A 1950s Collection Which Rips We’ll start with the cover: A beautiful blonde woman staring wistfully past a green scaly alien who has a big green conehead. Behind them looms a rocket ship and a purple glowing planetoid. I believe this image to be derived from one of the
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Post-America, Written Too Soon I accidentally read two books about the collapse or rising irrelevance of America while I was on vacation last month. This is why I can’t do leisure time: I box myself into the grindset by accident. The funnier coincidence about these two books is
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Q-in-Law by Peter David Man contains multitudes. Once, I reviewed War and Peace for this blog. Now I will review Q-in-Law, a Star Trek: The Next Generation tie-in novel wherein the omnipotent space asshole Q and Deanna Troi’s overbearing mother Lwaxana both attend an
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RIP Mr. Sheckley, You Would Have Loved GTA Online I found a copy of The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley on my shelf. I don’t remember how it got there. Though I’d like to say my friend sent it to me, I cannot pretend to certainty in this