Tuesday, 4 November 2003
Recent Reading
- Wildtrack, by Bernard Cornwell. One of his modern period nautical
adventure novels, written early in his career. Enjoyable.
- Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson. Quirky and interesting historical
exploring seventeenth century scientific thought and political
intrigue; rather prolix, as one would expect from the ground it tries
to cover. Enjoyable to those who don’t mind a big book.
- The Shadow of the Lion, by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave
Freer. A very good, though demanding, historical fantasy of magic,
religion, politics, and romance in a richly imagined Venice of an
alternate 16th century. While I am reminded to a certain degree of the
Merovingian Nights shared-world anthologies (there were some close but
not exact parallels) this is ultimately a very different story.