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Jon PENNYCOOK finished reading Avatars Dance: The Trilogy by Laura J. Mixon (Avatars Dance, #1-3)
Laura J. Mixon: Avatars Dance: The Trilogy (EBook)
Avatars Dance: The Trilogy by Laura J. Mixon (Avatars Dance, #1-3)
Jon PENNYCOOK reviewed The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 by Allan Kaster (The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories, #5)
Disappointing
2 stars
Jon PENNYCOOK finished reading The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 by Allan Kaster (The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories, #5)
Allan Kaster: The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 (EBook)
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 by Allan Kaster (The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories, #5)
disappointing - padded stories trying for novel-style character development
2 stars
Also disappointing. Long stories were often padded shorts. Short stories often tried novel-style character development, leaving no room for actual story. I skipped A LOT of stories. Clearly not enough high quality hard SF is being written these days.
Jon PENNYCOOK finished reading Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 6 by Derek Künsken
Jon PENNYCOOK reviewed Delta-V by Daniel Suarez
very disappointed
2 stars
very disappointed - long infodumps to give information that other characters are supposed to be fascinated by. Also strange unrealistic characterisations of non-USA characters.
Jon PENNYCOOK finished reading Delta-V by Daniel Suarez
very disappointed - long infodumps to give information that other characters are supposed to be fascinated by. Also strange unrealistic characterisations of non-USA characters.
Jon PENNYCOOK rated Delta-V: 2 stars
Jon PENNYCOOK rated Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2): 4 stars
Jon PENNYCOOK finished reading Imago (Xenogenesis, #3) by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis, #3)
Imago (Xenogenesis, #3) by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis, #3)
Jon PENNYCOOK started reading Imago (Xenogenesis, #3) by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis, #3)
Imago (Xenogenesis, #3) by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis, #3)
Jon PENNYCOOK finished reading Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2) by Octavia E. Butler
Jon PENNYCOOK rated Imago (Xenogenesis, #3): 4 stars
Imago (Xenogenesis, #3) by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis, #3)
Jon PENNYCOOK reviewed Conform to Deform by Wesley Doyle
Fascinating review of what happened to Some Bizzare/Stevo presented as a series of soundbites
4 stars
Rather than being a conventional biography of the #SomeBizzare record label, or #Stevo its founder, this is a chronological series of soundbites from each of the important players. This features contributions by artists (including #MarcAlmond who stayed with Stevo for the longest period), #DaveBall also of #SoftCell, one member of #EinstuerzendeNeubauten (fell out with Stevo, ended up working for competing record companies), #TheThe, #PsychicTV, #Coil, #CabaretVoltaire, and others, plus some journalists, and Stevo himself obviously.