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Napier's Bones
— published 2011 — 3 editions |
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Wasps at the Speed of Sound
— published 2005 — 2 editions |
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Cast a Cold Eye
by Derryl Murphy (Goodreads Author), William Shunn (Goodreads Author), Charles de Lint — 2 editions |
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Wasps at the Speed of Sound and Other Shattered Futures
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Mythspring
by Julie E. Czerneda (Goodreads Author) , Tanya Huff , Alison Baird — published 2006 |
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Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction
by Nalo Hopkinson , Geoff Ryman , Jerome Stueart — published 2005 |
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Tesseracts Twelve: New Novellas of Canadian Fantastic Fiction
by Claude Lalumière (Goodreads Author) , Brett Alexander Savory (Goodreads Author) , E.L. Chen (Goodreads Author) — published 2008 |
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| While not necessary, I do think it's a good idea if you first read The Stress of Her Regard (one of my all-time favorite novels) as well as the story "A Journey of Only Two Paces" from the collection The Bible Repairman and Other Stories, which acts...more | |
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Napier's Bones is a very entertaining mix of sf and UF; the structure is all UF (evil being with superpowers, awakened in our day and time wants to take over and change all, good guys have to stop it but to start they are too puny, so there are ch...
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Amazing world-building. Unobtrusively but uniquely Canadian. Would love to read more set in the same world. The only quibble I had was that I felt like I was reading it despite the characters rather than because of them. I wanted to know more abou...
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| I was not a kid who was hooked on Rinty, but was aware of him, of course. But what a marvelous surprise to find out just how he got into my brain, and to discover the incredibly dedicated and obsessive people who helped get him there. A great story,...more | |
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| The only thing about this book that disappointed me was the ending, notes from another time that told us Who and Why and How. For me, it would have been better to leave questions unanswered, except for the answers supplied by my fevered imagination....more | |
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| Jo gives us someone who, for the longest time, seems like the ultimate in the Unreliable Narrator. Because this story is told in diary form, we have to take her word for it that everything pans out exactly as she says. But things are wrapped up nicel...more | |
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| I came close to giving it four stars, but in the end a few moments of overwrought exposition pushed me back a shade. Call it 3.5 stars, even if Goodreads won't let me do the .5. That said, this is a fun and fine novel, with a story that carries the r...more | |
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
by Wade Davis
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| Wade Davis has done a marvelous job bringing the reader back to a very different time, to men who carried themselves in a different fashion than they do today (in the end notes, when he quotes some of the climbers who find Mallory's body, this is mad...more | |


























