Reviews still pending
November 19, 2002 (3:31 PM) ( link )

Work still oppresses me. Nevertheless, I have finished another two books: Elven Star (the second Death Gate Cycle book), and The Genocides by Thomas Disch. Neither too strongly recommended, although Elven Star can be very, very funny. (The Genocides, as its name suggests, is considerably less cheery.)

In my copious spare time I have started reading Tim Powers's The Anubis Gates (lots of weird exposition) and the third Death Gate Cycle book, Fire Sea, which is supposed to be far more serious and depressing than the first two. The Anubis Gates is (so far) much better than Expiration Date, the last Powers book that I read. We'll see if the plot continues on its crackling and mysterious pace.