New Reviews: Two of them
March 17, 2005 (6:52 PM) ( link )

ADDED reviews of Lyda Morehouse's Archangel Protocol (not recommended) and editor Michael Chabon's McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (mildly recommended).

CJ Cherryh's Cyteeen is extremely tough going. I'm a couple of chapters into it right now and still baffled about what the hell exactly is going on. Maybe I'm wearying of science fiction (it happens every once in a while); for some reason I find myself drawn to more literary fiction, like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (which still hews pretty close to the speculative fiction line) or, astoundingly for me, nonfiction like Rebecca Goldstein's book on Kurt Godel, or one of Barbara Tuchman's elegant histories. We'll see how long I can stick with Cherryh, whose previous books I intensely disliked anyway.