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I hope you’ve read Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.  If not, go read it.  If you have, imagine stopping at one of those cities and finding the weirdest, darkest little area in it.  Then imagine a description of that area by Gaiman and Wolfe.  That the city in this case happens to be Chicago is [...]

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I’ve been kind of distracted this month, so I neglected to mention that you can read my review of Michael Flynn’s novel Eifelheim on the SF Site.  I found this novel to be moving and effective and I recomend it highly.

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It’s a YA about techno-geek kids saving the world. Afterword by Bruce Schneier. It will be out from Tor in less than a fortnight. Buy it, read it, love it.

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My review of Tanith Lee’s Indigara has been published on the SF Site. It’s one of the most negative reviews I’ve ever written, which was a little weird for me. I’ve enjoyed some of Lee’s work but this one was way short of the mark. I hope those who read my review will look for [...]

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My review of Firefly Rain by Richard Dansky has been published on the SF Site. Page by page, Dansky builds the tension. This is not a horror novel with much gore or many appearances by the overtly supernatural. Instead it slowly layers on just enough fear, just enough confusion, and just enough weirdness to keep [...]

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My friend Fred (Fredcritter on LJ) sent me Steven Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought presumably because he guessed I’d find a book about language and thought and their mutual interaction interesting. He was right. Mr. Pinker is a psychology professor at Harvard, and has written several books advocating evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of [...]

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