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Reviews for the week of 9/15/08: Review.; Monday: Sideways in Crime edited by Lou Anders, reviewed by William Mingin
Wednesday: Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan, reviewed by R. J. Burgess
Friday: Year Million, edited by Damien Broderick, reviewed by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
That Fairy-Tale Feel: A Folkloric Approach to Meredith Ann Pierce's The Darkangel, by Marie Brennan (7/31/06): Article.; The Darkangel evokes more than one genre, including the gothic and (in certain places) science fiction, so what quality are we pointing to when we say it echoes the feel of a fairy tale?
Ireland's Ancient Code, by Marie Brennan (4/25/05): Article.; The questions of how and why ogham was developed have puzzled linguists and archaeologists for decades.
Bull-Leaping in Bronze Age Crete, by Marie Brennan (1/24/05): Article.; The average individual could not possibly hope to take a flying leap at a charging bull and emerge in one piece on the other side.
The Logic of Sacrifice, by Marie Brennan (12/6/04): Article.; [H]uman sacrifice ... has been practiced in a number of real-world human societies, where the entire population was made up of real people, rather than the one-dimensional caricatures bent on slaughter which populate so many fantasy novels.
Mesoamerican Calendars, by Marie Brennan (8/30/04): Article.; In ancient Mesoamerica, measuring time was a complex business, often involving multiple different calendars at once . . . [but] explanations rarely go beyond the math.

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