New Reviews: Glen Cook's The Dragon Never Sleeps and Jack Vance's The Dying Earth
August 11, 2002 (6:50 AM) ( link )

ADDED a review of Glen Cook's The Dragon Never Sleeps and Jack Vance's The Dying Earth. Neither are the best reviews I've written: in fact, I think they're terrible, and will probably merit re-writing at some point in the future (though I'll probably never get to it). At any rate, The Dying Earth was bad, and The Dragon Never Sleeps was good, but extremely confusing.

I am now deep in the throes of yet another Connie Willis book, Passage which is an excellent read so far (I'm about halfway through in a single day). The feeling I'm getting from it is something like the feeling I got while reading Doomsday Book--very interesting, but not yet fascinating. Of course, we all know how Doomsday Book turned out (it became one of my favorite books ever, with a devastating ending), but I've heard that Passage doesn't have quite as good a conclusion. Oh well: at least it will be fun while it lasts.

Something I noticed: according to the official list of 2002 Hugo nominees, I've read (or am reading) three of this year's nominations: Passage, Perdido Street Station, and Chronoliths. The last two were quite good, and I'm glad they were nominated. I have no inclination to read either Lois McMaster Bujold's book, nor Ken MacLeod's, but I like Neil Gaiman enough (despite my relative coolness toward his prose-only efforts) to perhaps try American Gods some time soon.