… I’m reminded that some authors will get insanely angry if you go with three rather than five stars.
Amazing.
And then I just go back to reviewing like I did before, except I’m probably going to be ignoring a tiny, tiny subset of books published in SF/F.1 This is quite useful, for there are many books and so little time.
A mysterious girl in the royal extended family, some say a demon because of disturbing markings around her eyes, is banished from the palace. A very young prince discovers her living in the gardens on the kindness of servants.
Like all princes, even ones that don’t reach the waist of their eldest sister, he wants to save her. But the only way to remove the demon’s markings from her eyes is for her to tell, bit by bit, the stories written upon them.
Thus begins The Orphan’s Tales, a well-woven tapestry of fairytales-within-fairytales in the world of Ajanabh, both like and unlike its inspiration, The Arabian Nights.
DVD extra #13, “Limits”, has been added at the official Shadow Unit site and also to the unofficial (but approved) bootleg Season 2 Extras ebook files!
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (Kindle/Mobipocket) (147.6 KiB, 167 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (EPub) (350.9 KiB, 86 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (Sony Reader) (229.9 KiB, 77 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (Microsoft Reader) (350.3 KiB, 71 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (PDF) (168.6 KiB, 92 hits)
It’s the end of the world like you’ve never known it: snarky and sassy with strangely touching moments weaved into a quick-moving story, Greg van Eekhout’s Norse Code manages to turn a fresh edge on old myths. And it’s probably the only re-weaving of Ragnarok where the poor blind guy, the one who started the countdown to Doomsday, is actually a sympathetic and participatory character rather than a footnote in lore.
Shadow Unit’s newest DVD extra, “Acronyms”, is up, and I’ve added it to the ever-growing Extras collection for Season 2:
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (Kindle/Mobipocket) (147.6 KiB, 167 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (EPub) (350.9 KiB, 86 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (Sony Reader) (229.9 KiB, 77 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (Microsoft Reader) (350.3 KiB, 71 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (PDF) (168.6 KiB, 92 hits)
The newest Shadow Unit DVD Extra, “Sufficient”, is now available at the official website.
It has also been added to the ever-growing DVD extras pack for Kindle/Mobipocket, EPub, Sony Reader, Microsoft Reader, and PDF.
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (Kindle/Mobipocket) (147.6 KiB, 167 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (EPub) (350.9 KiB, 86 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (Sony Reader) (229.9 KiB, 77 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (Microsoft Reader) (350.3 KiB, 71 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (PDF) (168.6 KiB, 92 hits)
In Tides from the New Worlds, Tobias Buckell does what the best SF/F writers do: tells stories that touch our minds with wonder and endow our hearts with perception. Reading this collection, for those of us culture-bound West or East, brings science fiction and fantasy to a fresh awakening. And for those of us who miss seeing ourselves in the fiction we so often read, it’s quite moving.
A new Shadow Unit episode is up: “Getaway”.
Now also available in the following formats for your digital reading convenience.
Shadow Unit - 2x04 - Getaway (Kindle/Mobipocket) (230.0 KiB, 56 hits)
Shadow Unit - 2x04 - Getaway (Epub) (386.4 KiB, 37 hits)
Shadow Unit - 2x04 - Getaway (Sony Reader) (275.4 KiB, 36 hits)
Shadow Unit - 2x04 - Getaway (Microsoft Reader) (395.2 KiB, 40 hits)
Shadow Unit - 2x04 - Getaway (PDF) (221.7 KiB, 44 hits)
[Link for iPhone Stanza users.]
DVD extra #10, “Tactics” is now up on the official Shadow Unit site, and has been added to the Season 2 DVD Extras pack.
Further new extras will be added to existing files as they come along (I’ll always blog to let you know).
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (Kindle/Mobipocket) (147.6 KiB, 167 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (EPub) (350.9 KiB, 86 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (Sony Reader) (229.9 KiB, 77 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (Microsoft Reader) (350.3 KiB, 71 hits)
Shadow Unit Season 2 - Extras 1-13 (PDF) (168.6 KiB, 92 hits)
Previously I made Journey of the West available in nicely formatting Mobipocket and ePub formats. Kate Nepveu, who also runs the illuminating Lord of the Rings Re-Read columns over at Tor.com, has converted the HTML to eReader format. Thanks, Kate!
Journey to the West, now available in:
Journey to the West: Epub (1.5 MiB, 420 hits)
Journey to the West: Kindle/Mobipocket (2.1 MiB, 435 hits)
Journey to the West: eReader (1.8 MiB, 47 hits)
