Just over a year ago I had finished the first draft of Hunter’s Garden (link in side-bar) and had an idea rolling around my head for a science fiction setting. I had some abstract ideas and concepts at first but slowly some characters I had in the back of my mind inserted themselves into this…
Category: Book Club
Book Club: Backyard Dungeon – Logan Jacobs
When I first saw the title for Backyard Dungeon, I almost scrolled past. Then I saw the cover and stopped long enough to read the listing. To be clear, in-between science fiction epics and early 20th century detective novels. I enjoy a genre called LitRPG. It’s power fantasy with a game wrapper around it. It’s…
Book Club: The Kaiju Preservation Society – John Scalzi
Book Club: The Kaiju Preservation Society is the most fun thing I have read in a long time. It is literally joy, in the form of a book. John Scalzi himself writes a little letter to the readers at the end, and he refers to it as the book equivalent of a pop song. That…
Book Club: Dune – Messiah by Frank Herbert
I enjoyed Dune. The first one was excellent. It was a little long in places but overall it was cohesive and enjoyable. It put forward interesting ideas and was a verbose but carefully told story. While not totally to my tastes I basked in it’s verbosity and left thinking it was a master piece; though…
Book Club: Dune by Frank Herbert
As much as this is out of character for me I am going to try and keep this brief. The reason is that there is no way anyone hasn’t heard of this book and most people who give a shit will have already read it, or bounced on it already. I tried to read Dune…
Book Club: Just one damned Thing After by Jodi Taylor Another.
This is my current adventure into a category I call “Its trash I read to relax”. It has replaced the unfortunate Emerillia series for me. I was first attracted to this title because I once saw it on sale on Kindle for about 1p or something crazy. I remember picking it up and thinking “I’ll…
My favorite writers.
I was thinking about writers the other day. There are a lot of books I really enjoy but there are not that many writers who I really enjoy consistently. For instance, I love the book ‘Neuromancer’ but don’t consider William Gibson to be one of my favourite writers. He is an interesting person for sure but is…
Book Club: The Iliad by Homer.
I don’t have the classical education required to actually write a review of the Iliad. I’ll be honest, while I enjoyed it a great deal I’m pretty sure that I missed a lot of smart culturally loaded stuff that would have made it way better. I don’t have very much in the way of interest…
Book Club: Komi Can’t communicate (Manga series)
I have recently been reading thought the delightful “Komi Can’t Communicate” a 13 volume manga about a young woman in school who had a serious communication disorder. She is quite literally unable to form sentences around people outside of her family, and even around them its usually a couple of words. Upon starting a new…
Science Fiction and Over tailored characters. A pointless musing.
I read a lot, not as much as some people but a book-a-week when I’m in a reading mood. I read a lot of classic (old) science fiction. I also read more comics than an adult probably should. I have also written a long form work of fiction that’s currently being edited by a friend….