Julia wrote:
> Doug Pensinger wrote:
> >
> > Anything good?
>
> Well, the Gordon Dickson collection _Ends_ was good. Then again,
> anything containing "Lost Dorsai" will probably be on the better end of
> the good/bad spectrum.
>
> The anthology containing 3 novellas, _Triax_, was reasonably good. I
> really liked the Jack Vance one, "Freitzke's Turn". It was a detective
> story, and a little weird, and some fun.
>
> _Star Guard_ by Andre Norton had a good theme -- suppressed Terrans work
> on outwitting the more powerful galactic races that are trying to keep
> them in their place. That was a fairly easy read, as well, and the
> chapter lengths (10-18 pages or so, which I could read at a rate just
> under 2 pages per minute, on average) were good for the circumstances
> under which I was reading it.
I just finished _American Gods_ by Neil Gaiman. Oh, wow. Wow, wow, wow.
Good stuff. I'm not going to drop any spoilers, but I'll say that it's some
of the best fantasy of the year. Like a punch to the gut followed up with a
shocking cold shower. It's that good.
Adam C. Lipscomb
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