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dsrtao_End of the Century_, Chris Roberson
_Bad Blood_, L.A. Banks
Roberson writes three stories in three eras: Arthurian England, Holmesian London, and London 2000. Of course they all seem to have eerie parallels, and of course they all converge into a single story later on. I can best describe the plot, without too many spoilers, as being Introduction to Charlie Stross for Young Adults. The events in Palimpsest (the novella in _Wireless_) are remarkably similar... a product of our times, perhaps. Some characters apparently appear in other Roberson books.
_Bad Blood_ is a slightly confusing urban-fantasy, by which I mean there is a female protagonist, she is pictured on the cover with her back to us, wearing leather pants, and she is a werewolf who gets to have supernaturally good sex. The confusing part is in the taxonomy of supernatural entities: there are werewolves, who are humans who turn into wolfmen, and there are demon-infected werewolves, who are the same but nastier, and there are shadow wolves, who are supernaturally cooler than anybody else (go on, guess what kind our heroine is) and are people who turn into wolves and can fly through shadows and hide in them and maybe teleport, and there are vampires, fairies, and probably Greater Ozark Mountain Trolls, though we don't see any of those. All of them have some degree of appetite for raw flesh and/or blood, and all of them get to have supernatural sex, which is like being in a porn movie but more literary. There are at least two more following in this series. There is a plot, but I think I lost track of it in between the bits that came from MacGyver, the bits that came from a Chuck Norris movie (did he ever do one with werewolves?) and the bits that implied that the Ute were the only Native American people who Really Understand What's Going On, or at least the only ones the author had done any research on. Not much, though.
_Bad Blood_, L.A. Banks
Roberson writes three stories in three eras: Arthurian England, Holmesian London, and London 2000. Of course they all seem to have eerie parallels, and of course they all converge into a single story later on. I can best describe the plot, without too many spoilers, as being Introduction to Charlie Stross for Young Adults. The events in Palimpsest (the novella in _Wireless_) are remarkably similar... a product of our times, perhaps. Some characters apparently appear in other Roberson books.
_Bad Blood_ is a slightly confusing urban-fantasy, by which I mean there is a female protagonist, she is pictured on the cover with her back to us, wearing leather pants, and she is a werewolf who gets to have supernaturally good sex. The confusing part is in the taxonomy of supernatural entities: there are werewolves, who are humans who turn into wolfmen, and there are demon-infected werewolves, who are the same but nastier, and there are shadow wolves, who are supernaturally cooler than anybody else (go on, guess what kind our heroine is) and are people who turn into wolves and can fly through shadows and hide in them and maybe teleport, and there are vampires, fairies, and probably Greater Ozark Mountain Trolls, though we don't see any of those. All of them have some degree of appetite for raw flesh and/or blood, and all of them get to have supernatural sex, which is like being in a porn movie but more literary. There are at least two more following in this series. There is a plot, but I think I lost track of it in between the bits that came from MacGyver, the bits that came from a Chuck Norris movie (did he ever do one with werewolves?) and the bits that implied that the Ute were the only Native American people who Really Understand What's Going On, or at least the only ones the author had done any research on. Not much, though.
