A lesson in writing: while inditing your villains, don't drag the "heroes" into the same moral quagmire.
read more'Lady Susan' - Book Review
An oddity in the Austen canon, "Lady Susan" features an exceptionally unpleasant protagonist.
read more'The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories' - Book Review
Clarke's follow-up to Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell doesn't have the same depth.
read more'Forest of Memory' - Book Review
A good SF novella about memory in an age of perpetual recording.
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Remains a great and readable book.
read more'The Farthest Shore' - Book Review
The third book (and last of the initial trilogy) in the "Earthsea" trilogy, The Farthest Shore sees Ged and a new companion facing their own mortality.
read more'The Tombs of Atuan' - Book Review
Sequel to A Wizard of Earthsea, this is also a coming-of-age tale - but the feel is radically different.
read moreJohn Varley's 'Millennium' - Book Review
People from the far future use a time machine to steal people from our time.
read more'M is for Magic' - Book Review
A good collection of short stories for teens by Neil Gaiman.
read more'City at the End of Time' - Book Review
Greg Bear's 500 page monstrosity measures its story line in trillions of years.
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