http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/ en Copyright 2012 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.32 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Chronicle is a found-footage superhero movie, which is to say that it takes a tired, overused premise and tells it in a tired, overused style. Implausibly, the result is something fresh and immediate.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/02/chronicle.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/02/chronicle.shtml Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000 The Man Who Rained remain insufficiently defined, and consequently neither feels completely real.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/02/the_man_who_rai.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/02/the_man_who_rai.shtml Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000 Songs of the Earth is that it lacks any sort of self awareness.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/02/songs_of_the_ea.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/02/songs_of_the_ea.shtml Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000 The Bone Spindle collects fourteen short pieces, mostly poetry, on the subject of women and the cloth-making arts: spinning, weaving and knitting. Each piece responds to a story—usually a fairy tale, though Sheldon also engages with Dickens, a history of textiles and an overheard story from the University of Chicago. The result is a book whose form expresses its content: it feels woven, with various story-threads combined into whole cloth.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/02/the_bone_spindl.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/02/the_bone_spindl.shtml Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000 Gods Without Men undoubtedly satisfies that need.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/02/gods_without_me.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/02/gods_without_me.shtml Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000 Children is a vast tapestry of political manipulation, but does it deliver the same scope, and the same bangs, as its predecessor?]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/the_children_of.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/the_children_of.shtml Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000 Roberts is a deeply self-aware—and self-reflexive—satirist, who seeks to challenge and even alienate as much as he does to entertain. It is not so much that he doesn't take his own characters and stories seriously, but rather that he is deeply invested in the project of deconstructing them before our eyes. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/by_light_alone_.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/by_light_alone_.shtml Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000 Numerous authors have developed Asimov's Robot/Foundation universe over the last two decades, with varying degrees of success. The selling point of this first volume in a new trilogy is that it takes us back to the early days of Susan Calvin. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/i_robot_to_prot.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/i_robot_to_prot.shtml Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000 One of the most invigorating aspects of a Kennedy story is that you can start on page one confident only in the knowledge that you have no idea of where this writer is going to take you. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/wind_angels_by_.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/wind_angels_by_.shtml Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000 Cloud Permutations is fascinating and infuriating because it is about its own failure to tell its story.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/cloud_permutati.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/cloud_permutati.shtml Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000 Rosen is interested in the small events: getting accepted to your dream school, choosing what to wear, first love. And he is interested in the small players of Victorian times: women, servants, unknown scientists in basements. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/all_men_of_geni.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/all_men_of_geni.shtml Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000 American Horror Story would be a situation comedy, albeit one with rape, torture, vivisection, and massacre.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/american_horror.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/american_horror.shtml Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000 bad puppy.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/theft_of_swords.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/theft_of_swords.shtml Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000 Further Conflicts does not attempt to define a genre or make any particular point about war or the way war is dealt with in SF, but rather to allow its thirteen authors to ring the changes on war as theme, setting, and subject matter.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/further_conflic.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/further_conflic.shtml Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000 Hull Zero Three is further proof that Bear is one of the best writers of science fiction out there.]]> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/hull_zero_three.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2012/01/hull_zero_three.shtml Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000