The death of grass by John Christopher
Read for the Not just for Stormtroopers sci-fi challenge It is the 1950s, and a devastating virus is sweeping Asia. It attacks grass, and grass feeds the world. Wheat is grass....
8 March 2012
The love letters of an Irish woman
Today, at work, in preparation for our move:”(of which I shall not speak because the work is unending and wearisome)”, I came across The love letters of an Irish woman. Originally...
6 March 2012
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
Joe Spork is mild mannered clockmaker. He wns and runs a shop fixing clockwork devices, from clocks to Victorian dirty toys. He doesn’t make a profit, in fact, he barely scrapes...
5 March 2012
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary by Ken Liu
I recently posted a link to some of the nebula nominees that are available to read online. And today I decided to read one, so at random i clicked a link...
25 February 2012
Josephine Butler
I work in a library headquarters, this means that we process the new stock [1] . Part of this processing means that we have to write the accession number and the...
21 February 2012
Edie Investigates by Nick Harkaway
In a small English village something is afoot. A local gent has lost his head, quite literally. Someone has murdered Donny Crispin by chopping his head off. And so Tim Rice...
20 February 2012
2011 Nebula Nominees You Can Read For Free | The Mary Sue
From The Mary Sue here are the 2011 Nebula Nominees that you can read for free: Novellas “Kiss Me Twice” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2011) “Silently and...
20 February 2012
I love him to pieces by Evonne Tsang
My boyfriend is a monster #1. Illustrated by Janina Garrissen. In St. Petersberg High School, Florida Dicey Bell is looking for Jack Chen. He doesn’t know it but he is her...
20 February 2012
The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
Also published as Sea-Hearts Misskaella isn’t as pretty and slim as her sisters, but as she grows she discovers that she has a power. She has an answer to their endless...
20 February 2012
Glister by John Burnside
Teenage boys are going missing in Innertown. Where they go and what happens to them, nobody knows. Some say that they have runaway, escaping the town with its pollution, disease, death...
19 February 2012
Donegal fairy stories by Seumas MacManus
I do enjoy fairy stories, of all shapes and sorts. When I was younger I read plenty of the children’s versions of the Irish myths and legends. But I don’t ever...
19 February 2012