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Three Days to Never / Tim Powers.
The Machine's Child / Kage Baker.
The Jennifer Morgue / Charles Stross
Taltos, Phoenix, Athyra, Orca, Dragon / Steven Brust (rereads)
Are there really people who never decide to reread a series as a retrospective? Probably, but I don't think I know many of them. The most intriguing thing about Brust's work on Vlad Taltos is the artistic interconnectedness of all things, while writing the series out of order. The most irritating thing is the way that in _Dragon_ he skips seamlessly among three or four different timelines and merges them.
Baker is still taking many, many books to finish off the Company series. If it weren't the case that she can write so well, I would have tossed her aside several volumes ago. As it is, I'm glad she's occasionally writing non-Company standalone novels.
Powers does occult timetravel. Hardly anything is explained. The good guys win. This is not his best work.
Charlie brings my favorite computational demonologist back in what might be his fastest reading novel to date. A large part of this is due to the intentional emulation of James Bond novels and movies in _The Jennifer Morgue_, which zips along with just a few complications and the perfect mix of cool occultech and stupid-but-physically-plausible gadgets. You'll never see a PowerPoint presentation the same way again... you may never see another PowerPoint slide, in fact. Muahahaha! Highly recommended for the IT-literate.
The Machine's Child / Kage Baker.
The Jennifer Morgue / Charles Stross
Taltos, Phoenix, Athyra, Orca, Dragon / Steven Brust (rereads)
Are there really people who never decide to reread a series as a retrospective? Probably, but I don't think I know many of them. The most intriguing thing about Brust's work on Vlad Taltos is the artistic interconnectedness of all things, while writing the series out of order. The most irritating thing is the way that in _Dragon_ he skips seamlessly among three or four different timelines and merges them.
Baker is still taking many, many books to finish off the Company series. If it weren't the case that she can write so well, I would have tossed her aside several volumes ago. As it is, I'm glad she's occasionally writing non-Company standalone novels.
Powers does occult timetravel. Hardly anything is explained. The good guys win. This is not his best work.
Charlie brings my favorite computational demonologist back in what might be his fastest reading novel to date. A large part of this is due to the intentional emulation of James Bond novels and movies in _The Jennifer Morgue_, which zips along with just a few complications and the perfect mix of cool occultech and stupid-but-physically-plausible gadgets. You'll never see a PowerPoint presentation the same way again... you may never see another PowerPoint slide, in fact. Muahahaha! Highly recommended for the IT-literate.
