342 pages
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
*Reto Popsugar #38. Un libro sobre arte o un artista.*
Biografia novelada de la vida de Johannes Brahms.
by Lynne M. Thomas (editora). Varios autores.
Estas revistas tienen una editorial, relatos y podcasts, además de entrevistas de autores. Por lo gra. leo una o dos hiostorias cortas de autores conocidos o que mis amigos recomiendan.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
-"Metal Like Blood in the Dark" by T. Kingfisher - 3.5 stars sci-fi.
An isolated inventor built two machines on a planet: Brother and Sister. Nanite AIs that later are released to eat and grow. Sister is the main character and her awakening to moral dilemmas.
Or a coming of age of Gretel to save Hansel ;)
https://uncannymagazine.com/article/m...
-"Juvenilia" by Lavie Tidhar - 2 stars. Fantasy.
Meh. going for a gothic tale furbling on metatale. After ww1, a woman took a job as caretaker at Wildfell Hall>; an isolated place and strange rules.
-"Anchorage" by Samantha Mills - 3.5 stars
Space opera scifi short story about a ship, it crew, and Geneve , with a background of internal battles and losing Earth, and an encounter with an Anchorage, a sort of space eremite. Had some twist in it.
-"The City of the Tree" by Marie Brennan -4 stars. Fantasy.
wow, another unknown author. I really like the style of the story, about clans of people of the trees, and invaders, traditions, and bringing help, and choices. Reminds me a bit to Martha Wells in Raksura.
Simkitsi gave him a pitying look. “The rituals were meant to placate the archon, to keep him asleep. They won’t do any good now that he is gone.”
“Do we know that?” Aptachi challenged her. “We only know that he woke after the rituals stopped. Maybe their purpose was to strengthen the tree, and he woke because it began to weaken.”
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
For those that still are confused: NOT A COMIC BOOK.
Anthology of short stories and novelletes , ranging from fantasy to horror and post-apocalypsis.
Apparently a good portion of readers know Marjorie M. Liu from the graphic novel "Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening", but I have been a fan of her ever since I read "The Iron Hunt" from her incredible urban fantasy series Hunter Kiss. Here she presents us with some of her short stories, of which I knew a couple; At the end of these Liu gives some comments from when they were written, some of which she considers to be part of the universe of her ideas (like Dirk & Steel), that is to say full of magic.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 52 by John Joseph Adams
"Loneliness is in Your Blood" by Cadwell Turnbull (3.5 stars)
A story about a creature of myth, leaving her skin behind, living of blood and with a life stretching to immortality but solitary. Something that got my attention from the book No Gods, No Monsters.
http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fic...
"Redcap" by Carrie Vaughn (3 stars)
A fairytale about the younger sister , always told of warnings about dangerous things , and an... encounter. A bit in the mocking side, and not really understanding rules or knowing it. Though it looks more like a teaser for a bigger story.
http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fic...
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Querida Señora Bird
by A.J. Pearce
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Novela de ficción historica simpática, pero sin mucha profundidad. Tampoco le hallé mucho humor.
Es 1941 y Londres se encuentra bajo bombardeo alemán, por todas partes arengan patriotismo y conservar la 'normalidad' para presentar buena cara ante el enemigo. Eso implica que las mujeres deben trabajar y lucir lindas y compuestas con carmin en los labios pese a cualquier dificultad.
Blood Rights (House of Comarré 1)
by Kristen Painter
My rating:
2.5 stars
probably it's not you book, but the angel angle ruined it for me. [*For those who join my broadcasts late, I have a particular pet peeve of not reading things related to angels.]
Chrysabelle es una Comarre , una raza mortal que son una especie de siervos de sangre criados para ese proposito: para brindar sus servicios o mejor dicho vender sus "derechos de sangre" a los vampiros nobles millonarios. Aparentemente tenerlos es simbolo de estatus , ademas de que su sangre es más pura y super yummy. Peero Chrysabelle tenia planes de ser 'normal' despues de su periodo de contrato de cien años en que su patron puede liberarla , pero la cosa sale mal, él es asesinado y ella escapa acusada de asesinato buscando forma de probar su inocencia.
by Cadwell Turnbull
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
What do we have around here? Apparently monsters have always lived among us, even organized in secret societies (with all the internal struggles that accompany that), and suddenly everything explodes and comes to light. And that is what some want and others do not. The reason for that precise moment we do not know.
232 pages
Es el año 1908 , en Londres la sensación es la exhibición franco-británica White City, el señor Stewart describe sus maravillas, y asi Jonty convence a Orlando a ir a verla, e inclusive a subir el Flip Flap.
Synopsis: H.A.M. has joined forces with H.A.P., using their differing gifts and combined knowledge to explore new territory and aid “clients” with problems both on land and in the Great Wide above. After priceless Giants-That-Were artifacts vanish from storage and one of their allies is double-crossed by deadly “stingers,” H.A.M. and H.A.P. find themselves at the center of a plot far more sinister than anything they’ve faced before.
En la continuación del libro anterior, el equipo de H.A.M se une a H.A.P. y dividen los equipos, mientras uno va por los hongos que aportan energía al complejo, otros van a un encuentro entre planeadores y aguijones. Mientras tanto, las baterías y otras cosas han ido desapareciendo, ¿faltan o alguien se las está quitando?
Sinopsis: It has been untold years since the Giants-That-Were disappeared, leaving behind the animals forever changed by their strange science. Now, granted the gifts of intelligence and self-awareness, the valiant Hamster Aquatic Mercenaries struggle to keep their horde alive in the dangerous new world.
¡Amigo, hámsters guerreros!
En un mundo postapocalíptico, hámsteres modificados genéticamente viven en un recinto esperando el regreso de los Gigantes. Son los H.A.M. ( Hamsters Acuáticos Mercenarios). Son de varios tipos físicos, de diferentes razas. (El autor afirma tener hámsters y haberse basado en ellos para su cómic)
Durante años sus crías se han estado entrenando para formar parte de una especie de comandos acuáticos de élite, que realizan misiones para sus vecinos, pero no por dinero ni especies, sino que el líder va acumulando "favores" para cuando llegue el momento. ¿A marcharse ?, ¿del regreso de los gigantes? no lo sabemos. Aún.
