Tag Archives: books
Niccolò Rising and Rogue One
I’m not going to bother to try and draw thin thematic parallels between Dorothy Dunnett’s Niccolò Rising and the movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, except that they’re both media I consumed (or finished consuming, in the case of … Continue reading
Recent stories and reviews + BioShock Infinite
Dusting off this poor neglected thing: I’ve had book reviews out recently of Emma Newman’s Between Two Thorns and Joyce Carol Oates’ The Accursed, both located over at Strange Horizons for your perusal. SH is currently up for a Best … Continue reading
Holy shit, BBC One’s doing Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Via Den of Geek, I may sincerely expire of wild hopes and tremendous anxieties.
The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton
This book was… weird. To some degree “weird” has lost all meaning as a descriptor — I don’t even mean the revival of the term to describe fiction, I mean that to most readers, most anything even slightly off the … Continue reading
Orestes Drunk and Pylades Fasting 