http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/ en Copyright 2013 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.32 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Deprivation presents itself primarily as an immersion in language and dream, rather than a journey along a narrative arc.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/deprivation_by_.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/deprivation_by_.shtml Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000 The collected stories may owe more to Austen and Thackeray than to Tolkien, as the editors point out, but they also owe a great deal more to Dunsany and the Rossettis and Andrew Lang than to Jules Verne. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/queen_victorias.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/queen_victorias.shtml Fri, 17 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Zenn Scarlett is a novel that disappoints on multiple levels.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/zenn_scarlett_b.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/zenn_scarlett_b.shtml Wed, 15 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Utopia becomes a dizzying and intricate balancing act which always seems one moment away from collapse.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/utopia_season_1.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/utopia_season_1.shtml Mon, 13 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000 This is a novel that wants to be a character study first, a romance second, and speculative fiction a distant third. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/the_mad_scienti.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/the_mad_scienti.shtml Fri, 10 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 In Taber's construction, gender is destiny. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/necessary_ill_b.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/necessary_ill_b.shtml Wed, 08 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Adam Robots is a giveaway. Is this a joke? splutters the unwary reader. Well, yes.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/adam_robots_by_.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/adam_robots_by_.shtml Mon, 06 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000 Quietly, without any fuss, the New Weird has won. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/no_return_by_za.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/no_return_by_za.shtml Fri, 03 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 So, is the 2013 Clarke shortlist any good? http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/the_arthur_c_cl.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/05/the_arthur_c_cl.shtml Wed, 01 May 2013 21:14:29 +0000 The judges for the 2013 Clarke award faced an extra challenge. This year, on top of all the usual tasks, it was incumbent upon them to produce a shortlist that would prove that we have not, in fact, lived and fought in vain. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/04/the_2013_arthur.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/04/the_2013_arthur.shtml Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:27:54 +0000 Queen of Nowhere, Jaine Fenn opens a window on a fascinating and vivid science fictional world, seen through the lens of an intriguing character—a world which, ultimately, proves more vivid and coherent than our protagonist.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/04/queen_of_nowher.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/04/queen_of_nowher.shtml Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Paul Kincaid: Why is Reed's work so regularly praised, yet so rarely in receipt of the various honours given out to genre fiction? This superb retrospective collection might provide a few clues.

Chris Kammerud: Kit Reed's stories confront us again and again with the prisons of human existence—guilt, love, family, sex, gender. Her narratives turn on how her characters respond—revolution or acceptance? Delusion or daring escape?]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/04/two_views_the_s.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/04/two_views_the_s.shtml Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:00:00 +0000 "Boat in Shadows, Crossing" is a story in which words often don't mean quite what we expect them to, and keeping track of that slipperiness requires a close and attentive reading. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/04/short_fiction_s.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/04/short_fiction_s.shtml Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:00:00 +0000 If I had to qualify it quickly, I would say that there is a sort of inestimable cuteness to this book. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/04/the_twyning_by_.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/04/the_twyning_by_.shtml Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Trafalgar perfectly enjoyable to read, but the unrelenting spirit of whimsy, even archness, running through the collection may also make them too insubstantial, too easily forgettable.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/04/trafalgar_by_an.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/04/trafalgar_by_an.shtml Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:00:00 +0000