
- Dec 9, 2020
- 3 min
Book Review: The Poppy War, by R. F. Kuang
At first, R. F. Kuang’s The Poppy War seems like an edgier version of Harry Potter: an outcast-at-the-academy story with a slightly older...
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- Nov 14, 2020
- 5 min
Book Review: Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove starts with pigs and ends with sorrow. In between lies one of the best books I’ve ever read. The novel is...
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- Oct 14, 2020
- 2 min
Book Review: The Fifth Season, by N. K. Jemisin
N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season is more intriguing than satisfying. But that’s fine by me, because when I say it’s intriguing, I mean it’s
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- Sep 19, 2020
- 2 min
Book Review: The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal
Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars begins as a disaster story and ends as a space race. Both tales are compelling in their own...
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- Aug 11, 2020
- 2 min
Book Review: The Map of Salt and Stars, by Zeyn Joukhadar
Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Map of Salt and Stars sucked me in with a fascinating structure: parallel stories, both anchored in Syria, one set...
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- Jun 20, 2020
- 3 min
Book Review: Assassin's Fate, by Robin Hobb
She did it. Robin Hobb’s Assassin’s Fate might have started slowly—as did the prior books in her Fitz and the Fool trilogy—but the middle...
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- May 17, 2020
- 2 min
Book Review: Fool's Quest, by Robin Hobb
Normally, I like every entry in a series to stand on its own. Not entirely—it’s (obviously!) fun to have a larger narrative that runs...
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- Apr 20, 2020
- 3 min
Book Review: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, by Ken Liu
I think part of why I enjoyed Ken Liu’s The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories so much is that his collection of science fiction and...
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- Mar 14, 2020
- 3 min
Book Review: Fool's Assassin, by Robin Hobb
The first two trilogies in Robin Hobb’s FitzChivalry Farseer series contain some of my favorite fantasy books. Fitz is a compelling...
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- Feb 11, 2020
- 3 min
Book Review: Black Leopard, Red Wolf, by Marlon James
Marlon James’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf is one of the most challenging books I’ve read in a long time. It’s also one of the most...
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- Feb 6, 2020
- 1 min
New Release: Magic in the Mud Show
I'm thrilled to announce that my historical-fantasy novella "Magic in the Mud Show" (set in the Barnum & Bailey Circus of 1892) is in the...
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