Books
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Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy Published 1983, Bantam Books Martha Macnamara comes to San Francisco to see her daughter, a genius computer programmer, only to discover she’s missing. At the hotel Martha meets Mayland Long, an ancient black dragon taking the form of a human in order to seek enlightenment. Mayland…
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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Published 2011 Sapiens: A brief history of humankind is a very interesting book that challenges a lot of received wisdom about humans – what we are, why we do what we do, how we got to this point in history. Harari is a historian but this isn’t the history of…
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Deathworld, by Harry Harrison Published 1960, by Bantam Books Humans have colonized many planets in the galaxy and in most places they live in sealed bubbles that provide a breathable atmosphere. But on one planet, life has become nothing more than a daily fight for survival. Every living thing on Pyrrus seems intent on destroying…
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Marked, by Sue Tingey Published 2015 by Jo Fletcher Books First read of the books acquired at FantasyCon 2015 is Sue Tingey’s Marked, book 1 of the Soulseer Chronicles. It is the story of a woman, Lucky de Salle, who sees the dead and makes a living helping them pass on. Her best friend is…
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Blue Remembered Earth, by Alastair Reynolds, is the first in the Poseidon’s Children sequence. Set one hundred and fifty years in the future, in a utopian society in which African is the dominant geographical power on earth, the moon and Mars are colonised, and asteroids are mined for water and minerals, the story centres around…
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Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m a fan of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books. They’re a comfort read. I know what I’m getting and I know I’m going to like it. I don’t expect to be surprised. In Make Me, Reacher arrives in a small town called Mother’s Rest. He’s there on…
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I love my kindle. It’s much better not having to carry around several books and I run out of something to read much less frequently. I still read and buy physical books but I don’t think reading on the kindle is a less rich experience. The one downside of the kindle, though, is I can’t…
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A little while ago I decided I didn’t want to write any more reviews of books I didn’t enjoy. There are two reasons for this. First, I don’t like doing it, the posts are hard to write, I don’t want to be negative, and I believe that if you can’t say something nice don’t say…
Boudica Marginalia 