The tale of Lamentation begins with the total destruction of the city of Windwir. Windwir is the religious capital of the Androfrancine Order and home to the greatest Library and scholarly school in the known world. Then in a blink of an eye, it is utterly destroyed. The obliteration is noted in the distance by many including Rudolfo, Lord of the Ninefold Forest Houses. Another is Sethbert . . .
Frak you, Cavil, it is ON.
This episode drew the threads a little bit closer around the Colonial fleet and Cavil’s Cylon fleet, pushing them toward the inevitable final battle.
Being the third book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. Jordan is still writing at a fast page at this stage, The Dragon Reborn is published only eleven months after The Great Hunt. I have always felt that the first three are somewhat different from the books that follow.
Read my not entirely spoiler free review…
At the BSC, Saturday means Sarah Zettel is back with another Things That Don’t Go Away!
Her novel Reclamation won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and also garnered a nomination for the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel. She is the project manager at the Book View Cafe.
Today we have the fourth final installment of her Race and Science Fiction pieces, Still the Same Old Story?. . .
Four new featurettes released for your viewing pleasure as we get closer to Watchmen hitting the big screen! Also, on Twitter yesterday I was directed to an article in the Wall Street Journal about Watchmen. I just wanted to note it as it was written by Lydia Millet, who among other things, participated in our first Synergy!
NY Times Bestselling novelist Sean Williams has announced that his novel Crooked Letter is now available for readers to download for free and read via PDF. This is the first in his Books of the Cataclysm series. . .
Fans of Taylor Anderson’s Destroyermen alternate history/alternate Earth trilogy set in 1942, the wait is over – Maelstrom is here! It is a satisfying, page-turning read that sees the final triumph of Lieutenant Commander (though he’s also referred to as Captain) Matthew Reddy and his crew, who manned the destroyer the USS Walker, and their Lemurian allies, over the ruthless feathered reptilian race known as the Griks. It’s the conclusion of the trilogy, but the Griks live on, albeit with greatly reduced forces, down to only 70 wooden ships.
One of the nice things about Modesitt’s long running Recluce series, there are currently 15 books (and there may be a 16th in 2010) is that once you are familiar with the time line you can more or less reread the books in any order you please. No main character has more than two books and they are usually separated by several generations.
Something for the kiddies here brought to you by the recent recipient of Newbery Medal, Neil Gaiman, and the fantastic Charles Vess! This is a trailer for Blueberry Girl coming from Harper Collins this month . . .
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