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4/7/05 21:30Someday I will rail against US Air and the city of Philadelphia. Not today.
Books read on the plane/in the early morning hours when I had little to do:
Hammered by Elizabeth Bear was stunningly good, and not just because I've got a soft spot for Canadian heroines. Yes, okay, the French was kind of off in places. Really off in a place or two. But I don't care at all, not a bit, and if you know how pedantic I am that says a lot about how much I liked the book. Definite nods to cyberpunk, but what I loved was how fully realized the characters were, how much I genuinely liked them...I am glad that I won't have to wait more than a little for the sequel. To the point that I was desperately hunting the airport bookstores for it.
The Family Trade by Charles Stross. It's a pretty shiny idea, I'll admit that--the people who live on the Other Side are getting fabulously rich smuggling things between our side and their side--but everything about it felt adequate, perfunctory. Inadequately motivated romance (what else is new?). Didn't feel much depth in the characters. I liked it enough to finish it, but that's about it.
Books read on the plane/in the early morning hours when I had little to do:
Hammered by Elizabeth Bear was stunningly good, and not just because I've got a soft spot for Canadian heroines. Yes, okay, the French was kind of off in places. Really off in a place or two. But I don't care at all, not a bit, and if you know how pedantic I am that says a lot about how much I liked the book. Definite nods to cyberpunk, but what I loved was how fully realized the characters were, how much I genuinely liked them...I am glad that I won't have to wait more than a little for the sequel. To the point that I was desperately hunting the airport bookstores for it.
The Family Trade by Charles Stross. It's a pretty shiny idea, I'll admit that--the people who live on the Other Side are getting fabulously rich smuggling things between our side and their side--but everything about it felt adequate, perfunctory. Inadequately motivated romance (what else is new?). Didn't feel much depth in the characters. I liked it enough to finish it, but that's about it.