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more about #jaylake petitmorte000: Thank you Grey Area! more » Grey_Area: Well, for anyone interested, Night Shade Books has a free download of the entirety of Trial of Flowers here [www.nightshadebooks.com] . more » mordicai: Super excited for both "Pinion" & "Endurance." more » ticktockman: I like the reviews here, too. If I want to know what Tor is putting out then I can look at the Tor website, or at the sci-fi section at the borders d... more » secretmission: David Hartwell's Year's Best SF 14 is even better than Dozois' anthologies... more » AileenPaterculus: I actually enjoy the way you guys do reviews because book specific sites and forums have always held tons of references for the less "arty" stuff. Th... more » AlessandroGiraffe: The Strain sounds an awful lot like Scott Westerfeld's Peeps, with vampirism portrayed as a parisitic disease that threatens civilization. more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: The Dozois Year's Best anthologies are always, always a delight. Sooo worth picking up and reading. All excellent, across all genres; stuff you alread... more » EbeneezerSquid: You know, I've been lurking here on i09 for quite some time, and these book posts have always seemed odd to me. It seems that the authors I tend to re... more » crashedpc - Haifisch: Jeez, I got my copy of House of Suns like two months ago, and it barely took a week to arrive. Mmmmm.... Can't wait for The Women of Nell Gwynne's to ... more » Heresiarch: I've been looking for another good fantasy book (the local Barnes and Noble only seems to offer Epic Heroic Trilogy bullshit), so I'll give this a try. more » JuanitaCharon: "Green is set on a flat (possibly endless) plain, with a procession of suns drifting across the sky" Frak. I wanted to use that idea. more » alphanumeric1971: "Yes, there are sex scenes involving teenage lesbian warrior nuns that will raise eyebrows among some squeamish readers (like this reviewer) Shoulda g... more » Anekanta - Go Play!: Great Review--thanks Grey Area! Just one question: is a Weaponized Hawaiian shirt anything like a joke so deadly that it has to be assembled in piece... more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Well...lesbian warrior nuns are my favorite kind of nun... more » Grey_Area: Here's a very recent (like yesterday) short story by Mr. Lake set in the same world as Green. It's called People of Leaf and Branch". [www.darkfantasy... more » txtracer: Ender's Game meets La Femme Nikita in a steampunk setting. Next. Maybe I'm too jaded. more » jaylake: I think this might be my favorite review EVAR of one of my own books. Rock on. more » Ruthless, If you let me: Awesome review... I am a bit confused about something. (Maybe it's not important.) She is sold into slavery as a girl and "stolen from...the timeless ... more » AmishJohn: Get a copy quick, before it's deemed 'child porn' by the PWYTotC. more » -
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Madness of Flowers: The City Is...Alive
The brilliant and prolific Jay Lake returns to the City Imperishable, with a Madness of Flowers. This is a decadent, surreal urban fantasy in the New Weird vein. Sex Dwarfs, spoilers, and a Polar Bear await.
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#hotbookshelfinjection
Steampunk Brothel Spies And Million-Year Quests, In June Books
Whether you want a fun beach read or a sweeping philosophical epic, June's books have you covered. You can encounter witches in Toronto and killer courtesans, or you can delve into America's dismal future, or Alastair Reynolds' eon-spanning colonization saga.
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A Courtesan-Turned-Warrior's Head-Kicking Journey
Jay Lake's sixth novel, Green , is an inventive fantasy of exotic cities, weird gods, conspiracies, stabbings, and kicks to the head. And here come the spoilers...
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All the Alternate Histories in "Other Earths"
Explore all the myriad ways of alternate history in Other Earths (DAW Books), ten new stories and a kickass must-read Lucius Shepard novella in a collection edited by Nick Gevers and Jay Lake. More » -
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Metatropolis Is The Best Kind Of Urban Renewal
The futuristic city is often a supporting character in science fiction, but these urban visions rarely feel like places you could live in. So Metatropolis, a new anthology of city tales, is a nice surprise.
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#intelligentdesign
In Recent Scifi, Intelligent Design Is Truth
A new crop of science fiction novels focus on what it would mean if Intelligent Design turned out to be the truth. Jay Lake's Escapement is a perfect example, as is Walter Jon Williams' Implied Spaces — both are novels about people in clockwork worlds designed by some kind of higher power associated with spiritual realms. Other recent tales, such as Charles Stross' Saturn's Children and Iain M. Banks' Matter, flirt with the idea of an Intelligent Designer by suggesting that under some circumstances it is the most logical explanation for reality: For instance, if you are a creature who lives in a synthetic world (or body) designed by sophisticated engineers, your existence has been literally created for you rather than randomly evolved. Are these scifi authors carving out a pro-science version of Intelligent Design theory? More » -
