This second book in the Southern Reach trilogy had the same feel as the first (which I liked a lot). But I really liked the narrator of the first (the biologist) a lot more than the narrator of this book. I thought he was quite ineffectual, although for me he redeemed himself by the end. I can...
I would highly recommend this book to readers and to libraries for their collections.The illustrations are detailed and interesting; some illustrations were used in the books discussed.This book also catalogues the costumes and art that are now part of Steampunk and also recounts some of the hist...
Nice introduction to the whole steampunk movement. I'd been aware of it as a SF subgenre for decades, but lately it seems to be everywhere. You know it's hit the mainstream when books on steampunk jewelry and the like show up at Michaels and Jo-Ann Fabrics. The book traces the roots and has se...
Podziemia Veniss to książka składająca się z dwóch części – zasadniczej powieści oraz noweli Wojna Balzaka – których akcja umiejscowiona jest w tym samym uniwersum. Czytelnikom "Podziemi Veniss" odradza się przyjmowanie podczas lektury środków halucynogennych. Nie będą potrzebne. – głosi zamieszc...
I recently went through a harvest of Listmania lists on Amazon, from those I found on the page for China Meiville's "Perdido Street Station". It seemed like a promising way to break into reading the current "New Weird" fantasy sub-genre movement, uh, thing. (New Weird. It's a fairly ambiguous ter...