http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/ en Copyright 2009 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:00:00 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.32 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss God of Clocks is the final volume of the Deepgate Codex, concluding the trilogy that began with Scar Night and was continued by Iron Angel. And yet, I like it.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/07/god_of_clocks_b.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/07/god_of_clocks_b.shtml book review Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:00:00 +0000 Legend of the Seeker.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/07/legend_of_the_s.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/07/legend_of_the_s.shtml tv review Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:00:00 +0000 McDonald's concerns are avowedly science fictional, at first sight quite at odds with Singh's more mystical, at times barely more than metaphorical, approach. Yet each author in their own way allows science fiction to inform our imaginings of one of the planet's most important and exciting nations. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/beyond_balram_s.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/beyond_balram_s.shtml book review Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:00:00 +0000 The old complaint goes that fantasy writing is rooted in a handful of concepts and milieus. Contemporary "urban fantasy" aside, Medieval Europe (and a simplistic, stereotyped version of it at that) is far and away the predominant one—as those hostile to the genre (prone to seeing it as all consisting of J.R.R. Tolkien knock-offs) often charge. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/ages_of_wonder_.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/ages_of_wonder_.shtml book review Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0000 The Forest of Hands and Teeth, suffers through most of the book. It was also mine on reading some of the many glowing reviews the book has received since its US publication earlier this year.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/the_forest_of_h.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/the_forest_of_h.shtml book review Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0000 I suspect most readers of this review are employed in ways enviably less difficult than one Martin Kindred, the protagonist of Alexander Irvine's highly enjoyable and gut-smart new novel. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/buyout_by_alexa.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/buyout_by_alexa.shtml book review Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:00:00 +0000 While there are plenty of risks taken and is plenty of originality to be found in the book, this is ultimately a no-frills collection of pirate stories. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/fast_ships_blac.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/fast_ships_blac.shtml book review Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0000 This amalgamation of Platonic dialogue, Stapledonian fictional history and accessible SF prose yields rich rewards for Beckett right up until the book's climax where an undignified scramble for a conventionally satisfying ending comes dangerously close to undermining the entire work. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/genesis_by_bern.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/genesis_by_bern.shtml book review Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0000 Up's opening minutes]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/up.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/up.shtml film review Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:00:00 +0000 Retribution Falls doesn't do anything particularly groundbreaking or startlingly original, but it is great good fun.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/retribution_fal.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/retribution_fal.shtml book review Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0000 The mirror of the mind that produces life, indeed. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/steal_across_th.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/steal_across_th.shtml book review Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0000 This Is Not a Game sees Walter Jon Williams stepping into the increasingly SF-adjacent demesne of the technothriller. ]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/this_is_not_a_g.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/this_is_not_a_g.shtml book review Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:00:00 +0000 Nights Of Villjamur is a fairly mush-mouthed novel.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/nights_of_villj.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/nights_of_villj.shtml book review Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0000 When this book focuses on emotional truths, it is a good read; when it tries to convince the reader with facts, it is rather more frustrating. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/blood_and_ice_b.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/blood_and_ice_b.shtml book review Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0000 It has sorcerers, beautiful women, demons, kettle-drummers, paradisiacal gardens, beautiful women, lovers, wars, poem fights, beautiful women, magical devices, daring escapes, bazaar scenes, beautiful women, and of course, the promise of sequels with more of these very things. Twenty-three more volumes in fact, if the Urdu Project has its way. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/hoshruba_book_o.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/06/hoshruba_book_o.shtml book review Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:00:00 +0000