Fiction, Revenge vid, etc.

[rivkat]

giandujakiss has a Revenge vid!  An overview of the first season. As the Softer World cartoon has it, “They say when you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. They underestimate me.”

Do not take a car title loan; you are likely to lose the car.

This review of the Chromebox/Chromebook got me slightly interested and might be of interest to those looking for a cheap computer, even though I haven’t been able to log in to my pro account on Chrome in weeks and have been reduced to using IE to blog because of Chrome’s infinite redirect loop when I try to log in. (Yes, I have cleared my cache and restarted my computer. There may be more that I could do, but the fact that I have to do it is indictment enough in my opinion.)

N.K. Jemisin, The Killing Moon: Free LibraryThing Early Reviewer book. Based on Egyptian-esque mythology, Jemisin’s new book takes place on a planet with a huge overhanging moon banded in four colors; four is a big deal, including in the magic of the Gatherers who take dreambile, dreamseed (yes, what you think it is), dreamblood and dreamichor to perform various functions. Among other things, Gatherers kill people, but only those who want to go or are condemned properly for crimes. At least, that’s what the Gatherers think, but it turns out to be far more complicated. Palace intrigue and ideology conflict as two Gatherers, a spy, a prince, and a near-mindless Reaper—a creature of legend that has the potential to disrupt the balance of power entirely—struggle for their various interests. I enjoyed the worldbuilding, and I like the idea that this will be a duology, because it’s nice to see variation from the usual trilogy-or-bust plan.

Kim Stanley Robinson, Galileo’s Dream: Irascible scientist Galileo navigates Italian politics badly; people from the future with their own agendas intervene in his life, some trying to keep him on track to be burned and others willing to help him try to stop it. Robinson’s characteristic landscape descriptions are present, here focusing on Jupiter and its moons where future humanity lives, and his thick description of the tangled relationship between science, personality, and politics—like the tangled currents of time, in a way. I didn’t feel the magic here, though, and the book basically left me cold.

Steven Barnes, Blood Brothers: Fantasy written in page-turner thriller style.  Black geek and white wrongly convicted military bruiser discover that they're linked through family connections--connections that have already been deadly to many and threaten the geek's family.  Turns out the legacy of slavery affects magic, too.  I enjoyed it, though sometimes that was because I was amused by 1996 state of the art technology.  There is a lot of gender role stuff (what it is to be a man, what it is to be a woman), though it was easy to read that as the characters' viewpoints rather than as the author explaining life.  

Comments

[scintilla10]

Thanks for linking to that Revenge vid (or REVEEEEEENGE!!! as I can't help referring to the show in my head every time, lol). I love that show and I'm excited whenever I find some great fanworks for it!

[tehomet]

(Yes, I have cleared my cache and restarted my computer. There may be more that I could do, but the fact that I have to do it is indictment enough in my opinion.)

Absolutely.