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kmusserTime for another book update, though this batch wasn't as good as last one.
Dragon Bones by Patricia Briggs - decent, light fantasy, of the teenage noble deprived of his inheritance has to go off and find his destiny variety. Not especially inventive, but it is well written. There is a sequel, but I'm not in a hurry to seek it out.
Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb - rarely do I fail to finish a book, but I gave up on this one. After several hundred pages nothing had happened and no one interesting had shown up - plot is essentially Dances with Wolves set in a fantasy world, the characters have just about as much personality too.
The Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster Bujold - I followed that up with one I knew would at least be decent. This is one of the few Bujold books not part of a series. I didn't think it as good as Curse of Chalion, but quite enjoyable nonetheless. Set in a sort of renaissance Italy with magic. About a brash, young, magic using heroine out for revenge, hard to go wrong really :-)
Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge - another early Vinge, dubbed as a sequel to The Peace War which it doesn't really have anything to do with other than being in the same universe. This is a bizarre murder mystery set in a post-apocalyse universe in which humans have the technology to jump forward in time, but not back. There are only a few hundred survivors and the victem is "murdered" by being deprived of the technology (thus stuck alone in "realtime"). The mystery is fairly shallow, but the setting is so interesting that this was still worth reading.
Otherness by David Brin - a collection of short stories with "otherness" as a connecting theme, they vary in quality but are mostly good. One though is sort of a spoiler for Earth so I'd read that first.
Eon, Eternity, and Legacy by Greg Bear - I wasn't sure what to make of these. Hard SF books full of alternate, time bending universes - felt much of the science go flying over my head. Not sure how to describe them otherwise, or really whether I even liked them or not - kept me interested enough to read all 3, but parts of it definitely felt muddled. I thought Legacy was the weakest of them and is only thinly connected to the other two.
Ok, now time to read something that doesn't have any singularities in it.
Dragon Bones by Patricia Briggs - decent, light fantasy, of the teenage noble deprived of his inheritance has to go off and find his destiny variety. Not especially inventive, but it is well written. There is a sequel, but I'm not in a hurry to seek it out.
Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb - rarely do I fail to finish a book, but I gave up on this one. After several hundred pages nothing had happened and no one interesting had shown up - plot is essentially Dances with Wolves set in a fantasy world, the characters have just about as much personality too.
The Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster Bujold - I followed that up with one I knew would at least be decent. This is one of the few Bujold books not part of a series. I didn't think it as good as Curse of Chalion, but quite enjoyable nonetheless. Set in a sort of renaissance Italy with magic. About a brash, young, magic using heroine out for revenge, hard to go wrong really :-)
Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge - another early Vinge, dubbed as a sequel to The Peace War which it doesn't really have anything to do with other than being in the same universe. This is a bizarre murder mystery set in a post-apocalyse universe in which humans have the technology to jump forward in time, but not back. There are only a few hundred survivors and the victem is "murdered" by being deprived of the technology (thus stuck alone in "realtime"). The mystery is fairly shallow, but the setting is so interesting that this was still worth reading.
Otherness by David Brin - a collection of short stories with "otherness" as a connecting theme, they vary in quality but are mostly good. One though is sort of a spoiler for Earth so I'd read that first.
Eon, Eternity, and Legacy by Greg Bear - I wasn't sure what to make of these. Hard SF books full of alternate, time bending universes - felt much of the science go flying over my head. Not sure how to describe them otherwise, or really whether I even liked them or not - kept me interested enough to read all 3, but parts of it definitely felt muddled. I thought Legacy was the weakest of them and is only thinly connected to the other two.
Ok, now time to read something that doesn't have any singularities in it.