Read for the Coursera online course, Carl’s 2012 Science Fiction Experience, the Not Just for Stormtroopers Sci-Fi challenge, & the Gender in Fantasy & Sci-Fi 2012 Genly Ai has been on Gethen for two years. He is the First Mobile, … Continue reading
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God’s War by Kameron Hurley
War is hell. Especially on a planet torn up between warring religious countries. Nyx has done her time at the front, been a hero and had her body rebuilt. Then she joined the bel dame, government mercenary/bounty hunters to you … Continue reading
26 June 2010
Genre: biography, graphic novel
Setting: Pennsylvania
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Fun home : a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Like many father, mine could occasionally be prevailed on for a spot of ‘airplane’.
This is the memoir of Alison Bechdel, her recollections of growing up in an emotionally-distant family, the role of literature in her, and her father’s, life, her identifying as a lesbian at college and coming out, by letter, to her parents. It is the story of growing up in a house that can seem more like a museum than a home. Of living in a funeral home. Of trying to connect with her father. All told in graphic form.
26 July 2009
Genre: Juv/YA, sff
Setting: Britain - modern
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Hero by Perry Moore
ISBN: 9780552555869 I never thought I’d have a story worth telling, at least not one about me. I grabbed this at work, while wondering if I should catalogue it as a children’s book or as a Young Adult. In the … Continue reading
8 January 2009
Cast: Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Genre: historical fiction, sff
Setting: alternate Europe
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Ilario: the lion’s eye by Mary Gentle
ISBN: 9780575080416 ; Delicious links We are so often a disappointment to the parents who abandon us. This is a return to the world of Mary Gentle’s alternate world of mercenary captain Ash[1] although this book is set in a … Continue reading
8 January 2006
Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal
Script: Diana Ossana, Larry McMurtry
Genre: drama, romance, western
Setting: 1960s
10 Stars
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Brokeback Mountain [based on book] by Annie Proulx directed by Ang Lee
In a way it is a pity that this film has received so much press coverage, it’d be interesting to watch it not knowing what was going to happen between Ennis and Jack. But it is pretty much known as … Continue reading
21 July 2005
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction, sff
Setting: 1610s, C17th, France, Japan
9 Stars
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1610: A Sundial In A Grave by Mary Gentle
ISBN: 0575072504 According to the mathematic calculations of the Hermetic astrologer Robert Fludd, 1610 is the pivotal year in deciding the world’s future. It is the year that the King of England must die. And as his assassin he picks … Continue reading