New Reviews: Christopher Priest's The Inverted World, Margaret Weis's Dragon Wing, and Thomas Disch's The Genocides
December 6, 2002 (8:06 PM) ( link )

ADDED reviews of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragon Wing, Thomas Disch's The Genocides, and Christopher Priest's The Inverted World. These reviews have actually been sitting on my server for a while--I just haven't felt like compiling them into the pages yet, since there are four other books I have to review and I wanted to do them all at once. Since that will clearly be impossible at least for another week, I decided to put up what I have so far.

Right now I'm reading David Gemmell's Legend and Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory. Legend is pretty badly written but fun in its own way; Gemmell is a traditional purveyor of "heroic fantasy," and I have to say he does it pretty well (though his technique is very obvious).

Greene's novel is short but, so far, pretty dull. One thing I don't get about mainstream fiction: why don't authors feel the need to explain what the hell is going on? It took me a brief search on Google to figure out the background of The Power and the Glory, and I'm already a quarter of the way through the book. At any rate, I hope it gets more gripping than it is--I'm certainly not immune to the charms of a good mainstream book even though nowadays I primarily read science fiction and fantasy (as a form of escapism, I'm sure).