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Seed by Rob Ziegler

Matt Hilliard — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:46:43 +0000

My review of Rob Ziegler’s first novel Seed, a science fiction story about humans struggling to use genetic engineering to survive in the midst of a decades long ecological collapse, is up at Strange Horizons.

The Fecund’s Melancholy Daughter by Brent Hayward

Matt Hilliard — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:52:59 +0000

My review of Brent Hayward’s second novel, The Fecund’s Melancholy Daughter, has been posted by Strange Horizons. Next up for this blog is a review of another unusual book with an even longer title, How To Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu.

Home Fires by Gene Wolfe

Matt Hilliard — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:32:59 +0000

My review of Gene Wolfe’s recent novel Home Fires has been published today by Strange Horizons. This is the first review I’ve written for a venue other than this site. If something possessed you to read through the archives of this blog chronologically, it would probably be obvious that a couple years ago I tried to “raise my game” as Martin Lewis later put it. This is an avocation without a lot of obvious yardsticks for how well one’s doing, so this is a fairly gratifying moment.

This doesn’t mean reviews on this site will be any less frequent (not that they are very frequent to begin with). Expect to see an in-depth review of Patrick Ness’ widely acclaimed but in my view slightly problematic Chaos Walking trilogy here later this week.