Reviews

Subterranean Magazine, Fall 2011 by Tim Pratt, Catherynne M. Valente, K.J. Parker, William Schafer, Daniel Abraham

jbaltsar's review

4.0

White Lines on a Green Field by Catherynne M. Valente
Coyote der Trickster in Small-Town-America: american football, teenage sex, ein endloser Sommer zwischen Jugend und Erwachsensein, exquisit wie alles von C. M. Valente

Cutting Edge Technology: by K. J. Parker
netter Essay über Schwertkunst damals und jetzt

SHAKA II by Mike Resnick
brillianter Kurzroman: der Zulu Robert ole Buthelezi schwingt sich vom Nobody zum Herrscher über Welten auf; eine Studie in Brillianz und Wahnsinn, Macht und Grausamkeit

Antiquities and Tangibles by Tim Pratt
nette Geschichte über die (schwierige) Suche nach Glück

Balfour and Meriwether in The Vampire of Kabul by Daniel Abraham
viel Holmes & Watson, etwas Steampunk und reichlich Action

arkron's review

4.0

The two main protagonists form a kind of Sherlock and Watson. Far more engaging and entertaining was the Russian Czarina Maria Feodorovna, an adventuress with a history with those two Victorian gentlemen. Djinns, warlocks, shooting mixed in the London atmosphere. Abrahams knows how to catch your attention, provides a fluid narration. Read this in between longer novels to clean your thoughts.

Full review at my blog

thewildewoolf's review

4.0

reading cat valente instead of everything else i am supposed to be doing: a lifestyle i am not ashamed of. if you want the link to this (short story) just ask