New Review: Connie Willis's Passage
August 13, 2002 (2:50 AM) ( link )

ADDED a review of Connie Willis's Passage. I suppose this deserves to get a Hugo nomination, but I still think that Perdido Street Station is better--and Chronoliths, though less well written, might even edge Passage out in terms of sheer coolness and compression of the story. Nevertheless, as I say in the review, Passage is still worth a read for anybody who enjoys Willis's other books.

I am currently about a fourth of the way through RA Macavoy's Tea with the Black Dragon, which is pretty terrible at the moment. The book is about some person's daughter, who is lost (or worst), but I couldn't give a damn about any of the characters. Plus Macavoy writes with this annoying pseudo-mystic style that is really starting to bother me. Oh well--perhaps it'll get better.

Soon enough I will begin on Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist, a supposedly good novel that will perhaps tide me over for at least a few days of entertainment. At some point I will be reading Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy, which my brother recently re-read and loved.