By the Mountain Bound by Elizabeth Bear – Review
By the Mountain Bound is the prequel to Elizabeth Bear’s All the Windwracked Stars and may be of most interest to those who have read that first, acclaimed novel. Loosely based upon Norse mythology, the story unfolds like a myth with power and force, and yet the characters seem too childlike and human to be part of a myth.
Full review after the jump…
Short Thoughts on Short Fiction Vol. 6
I rather enjoyed my first go at the Short Thoughts on Short Fiction format so I picked a fresh bunch of stories of the web for your entertainment. This batch is all science fiction, I’ll see if I can make the next one more varied. This edition contains reviews of stories by James Van Pelt, Kim Stanley Robinson, Elizabeth Bear, Alastair Reynolds and Ursula K. Le Guin. All of these stories are available online for free.
Book Review – Whiskey and Water: A Novel of the Promethean Age
Author: Elizabeth Bear Publisher: Roc Publishing Date: January 2009 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Cover Artist: Paul Youll Whiskey and Water is the second novel published in Elizabeth Bear’s series of the Promethean Age and should be considered as an independent sequel to Blood and Iron. The story of Whiskey and Water takes place about seven [...]
Book Review – Blood and Iron: A Novel of the Promethean Age
Author: Elizabeth Bear Publisher: Roc Publishing Date: June 2008 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Cover Artist: Paul Youll Elizabeth Bear is a very talented, imaginative and highly prolific writer, who, since publishing her first novel from 2004 (Hammered), already has 13 whole novels under her belt (though one of them, A Companion to Wolves, is co-authored [...]
“Join me or Die!” by Elizabeth Bear
Today BookSpot Central re-presents Join Me or Die!, an essay by the award winning novelist and short fiction author Elizabeth Bear (check out what we have on Bear and her work at BSC). This is much like how we re-presented Jessa Crispin’s (of Bookslut fame!) article earlier this year inthat I find what I think are interesting essays or articles and give them another spin via our platform! Join Me or Die! was first put to words in 1997, and I want to thank Elizabeth Bear for allowing us to (re)feature it!
Book Review – Dust
Author: Elizabeth Bear Publisher: Bantam Spectra Publishing Date: January 2008 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Cover Artist: Paul Youll Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Arthur C. Clarke) This well-known, and perhaps even iconic, statement of Clarke’s is, in many respects, particularly pertinent to Elizabeth Bear’s new novel Dust, the first canto in a [...]
Damon’s Weekly Noise – Oct 26 2008 – Halloween Edition
This is my special Halloween edition, I know everyone is excited. I even took some time to photoshop a new column picture for the occasion. Without any more delay (as I have to sample the Halloween candy before it goes out, I am an official candy taster), the first special edition of Damon’s Weekly Noise. [...]
Book Review – All the Windwracked Stars
Author: Elizabeth Bear Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: October 28th 2008 Cover Design: Jean-Sebastian Rossbach Elizabeth Bear has been quite prolific in the past few years. She is perhaps best know for her ambitious Promethean Age novels, the fourth of which appeared this summer. She’s written a number of other novels as well, two [...]
Book Review – Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
Editor: John Joseph Adams Cover Artist: Daniel Kvasznicza Publisher: Night Shade Books Binding: Paperback Publication Date:2008 In the anthology Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse John Joseph Adams collects 22 pieces of post-apocalyptic short fiction. It includes stories by big names such as Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Orson Scott Card and Gene Wolfe as well [...]
Book Review – New Amsterdam
Author: Elizabeth Bear Publisher: Subterranean Press Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: May, 2007 Set in a Victorian era and a New Amsterdam still apart of the British Empire, where many of the familiar vampire tropes made popular by the likes of Anne Rice and Laurell K. Hamilton, and a good bit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [...]
Book Review – Hammered
Author: Elizabeth Bear Cover Artist: Paul Youll Publisher: Bantam Spectra Binding: Paperback Publication Date: December 2004 In Hammered by Elizabeth Bear, the year is 2062 and the world has changed. Civil war has broken out in the United States while China is surging forward in the arms race of the future. Canada is close behind [...]
