Friday, April 25, 2008

The Ways Of Love - Poul Anderson

Space spread out.


3 out of 5

Schwarzschild Radius - Connie Willis

War message disease.


3.5 out of 5

The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky - Kate Wilhelm

Get rid of that damn piano.


2.5 out of 5

Blooded On Arachne - Michael Bishop

"Sej, you burgundy bastard," he hissed.

...

"Sej, he thought, Sej, you treacherous spidherd."

...

"Oh, what a man you are now," Sej said. "You're stained and smeared and shredded, just like a spidherd. Just like a spidherd, lovely one."

I'm spewing about being a pilot now!


4 out of 5

The Listeners - James Gunn

Big Ear, Little Ear, dead.


3.5 out of 5

The Big Flash - Norman Spinrad

"To make a long story short and sweet, I gave the network the royal screw. I signed the Horsemen to a contract that made me their manager and gave me twenty percent of their take. Then I booked them into the American Dream at ten thousand a week, wrote a check as proprietor of the American Dream, handed the check to myself as manager of the Four Horsemen, then resigned as a network flunky, leaving them with a $10,000 bag and me with 20% of the hottest group since the Beatles.

What the hell, he who lives by the fine print shall perish by the fine print."

Apocalypto Rock and Rollo.


4 out of 5

The Big Flash - Norman Spinrad

"To make a long story short and sweet, I gave the network the royal screw. I signed the Horsemen to a contract that made me their manager and gave me twenty percent of their take. Then I booked them into the American Dream at ten thousand a week, wrote a check as proprietor of the American Dream, handed the check to myself as manager of the Four Horsemen, then resigned as a network flunky, leaving them with a $10,000 bag and me with 20% of the hottest group since the Beatles.

What the hell, he who lives by the fine print shall perish by the fine print."

Apocalypto Rock and Rollo.


4 out of 5

The Dragon Line - Michael Swanwick

Throat cutting, gonad slicing megalomaniac Arthurian remnants.


3.5 out of 5

Radio Praha - Tony Daniel

Smoking spies like us radio stasis time.


3.5 out of 5

Fallen Angel - Robert J. Sawyer

Fallen Angels - Robert J. Sawyer

Circus acrobat devil clown deal drives one batty.


4 out of 5

Poor Man Beggar Man - Joanna Russ

Even if I am a spook boy, you still can't take it with you.


3 out of 5

A Knight Of Ghosts and Shadows - Gardner Dozois

You left me you steely old battleaxe, piss off.


4 out of 5

A Rite Of Spring - Fritz Leiber

Seven times too long.


3 out of 5

A Rite Of Spring - Fritz Leiber

Seven times too long.


3 out of 5