10 Apr, 2025
History's Actors
Donald Kingsbury’s 2001 Psychohistorical Crisis is a stand-alone space opera. Well, stand-alone-ish. More on that later.
Eron Osa, having committed an unspeakable crime, is functionally obliterated. Poor Eron. What is he to do with the rest of his life?
8 Apr, 2025
History's Actors
Marie Phillips’ 2007 Gods Behaving Badly is a modern comedic fantasy.
The Greek gods would (and do) assert that it’s regrettable that they’ve been largely abandoned by their worshippers. They would (and do) assert that it is a terrible development that they’ve been so reduced in power. Mortals (or at least British mortals) might assert that what is truly regrettable is that the small amount of divine power left to the gods is sufficient to wreak havoc on the innocent people of London1.
Take Kate, for example. Kate used to work for Sachs Goldman in mergers and acquisitions. Now Kate is a eucalyptus tree. Why is Kate a tree? Because the gods are dicks.
8 Oct, 2024
History's Actors
2001’s Crossover is the first volume of Joel Shepherd’s Cassandra Kresnov science fiction adventure series.
April Cassidy has a perfectly pleasant life in the delightfully cosmopolitan city of Tanusha on the planet Callay. However, should the Callayans discover that April Cassidy is actually Cassandra Kresnov and that Cassandra is a more a what than a who, a torch-waving mob is not out of the question.
But first! A word about global economic convergence.
26 Sep, 2024
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2004’s Covenants is the first volume in Lorna Freeman’s Borderlands secondary-universe fantasy series. Covenants is not a mystery, but on researching its author, I discovered that the author is a bit of a mystery.
Freston is the border outpost to which the Royal Army of Iversterre dispatches all those soldiers who do not fit the army mold, but who cannot be summarily dismissed or executed. Rabbit is one such, raised in the Borderlands by Iversterre expats, a man who dresses as well as he can under the circumstances and is considered finicky, who nevertheless has considerable woodcraft skills.
Or so everyone, including Rabbit, assumes. But currently Rabbit and the routine patrol for whom he scouts are hopelessly lost. Help arrives in an unwelcome form.