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hawkwing_lbBooks 2010: 99-100
99. Gail Carriger, Soulless.
I'm not actually prepared to recommend this book, you understand. But as a pseudo-Victorian werewolf/vampire urban fantasy, it has the virtue of some novelty. And it succeeds in being fun, if rather relentlessly upbeat.
100. Walter Jon Williams, Implied Spaces.
With long strides the swordsman walked across the desert.
So opens Implied Spaces. Aristide is a scholar, a traveller, a swordsman, a poet, a man who in his very long life has helped create the science fictional universe in which he dwells. In the course of his travels through the pocket universe of deliberately pre-technological Midgarth, he uncovers a plot which may ultimately result in the end of civilisation. The results are anything but predictable.
Williams writes with an economical grace of language. A wry, rich sense of humour and, at times, an almost elegiac sadness infuse this book. It's taut, fascinating, and poetical. I can't recommend it highly enough.
99. Gail Carriger, Soulless.
I'm not actually prepared to recommend this book, you understand. But as a pseudo-Victorian werewolf/vampire urban fantasy, it has the virtue of some novelty. And it succeeds in being fun, if rather relentlessly upbeat.
100. Walter Jon Williams, Implied Spaces.
With long strides the swordsman walked across the desert.
So opens Implied Spaces. Aristide is a scholar, a traveller, a swordsman, a poet, a man who in his very long life has helped create the science fictional universe in which he dwells. In the course of his travels through the pocket universe of deliberately pre-technological Midgarth, he uncovers a plot which may ultimately result in the end of civilisation. The results are anything but predictable.
Williams writes with an economical grace of language. A wry, rich sense of humour and, at times, an almost elegiac sadness infuse this book. It's taut, fascinating, and poetical. I can't recommend it highly enough.
