Two tendencies in reviews of I AM PROVIDENCE.

So I Am Providence has been out for a few weeks, and the reviews from both reviewers and readers have generally been positive, with a few unusual twists (e.g., the paperback smells like crayons), and some complaints.

A couple of things I noticed: women reviewers and readers are much more likely to accept the depiction of organized fandom and convention culture as a given, while there is a slight tendency for men reviewers to complain that the depiction isn't quite fair. Umbrage has been taken.

There's a stronger split between horror/mystery reviewers and science fiction reviewers. Fangoria called it a a wacky summer beach read, and the first of two Hellnotes.com reviews recommended it for lovers of Lovecraft, laughs, mystery, and silliness. The second of two Tor.com reviews, on the other hand, denounced the book a novel of horridness [that is a] miserable, meandering thing. (The first, by a woman more interested in horror, was uniformly positive.)

Can conclusions be drawn? Men are awfully fragile and science fiction fans are at sea when they're not being pandered to It is too soon to tell, but you can check out the book and see what kind of person you are.