Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
Thursday, Jun 21, 2007 at 9:37pm
Sacred Games, by Vikram Chandra is a lush, rich story that spills out of the pages, soaking the reader in the culture of India, its earthy smells, complex tastes, fierce loves, corruption, bribery, murder, blood and death.
Categories: ReviewsIan McEwan's On Chesil Beach
Thursday, Jun 21, 2007 at 9:43pm
McEwan is the master of the one moment that can change a life utterly. In this short novel, set in July, 1962, Edward and Florence, having just been married, contemplate the consumption of their marriage, she in disgust and both of them in terror.
Categories: ReviewsFragile Things, by Neil Gaiman
Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 8:53pm
Do you love old stories, the myths, the fairy tales that link us to the past, that swirl out of the dark mist that shrouds the land? If so, you'll be enchanted by Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things.
Categories: Reviews, SciFi & FantasyA Small and Remarkable Life: A Review
Tuesday, Jun 05, 2007 at 4:17pmTink Puddah is an orphan, struggling to survive in the Adirondack Mountains of 1845. But Tink is also a blue skinned alien from Wetspace. In Nick DiChario's debut novel from Robert J. Sawyer Books, we are seeing what author Nancy Kress has called "one of the most original first-contact novels ever."
Categories: Reviews, SciFi & FantasyRollback: A Review
Saturday, Apr 28, 2007 at 4:34pmI had the pleasure of joining Robert J. Sawyer for dinner prior to his reading of Rollback, his seventeenth novel, at our Grant Park location. We had a great discussion at Cafe Carlo about the past, present and future of Science Fiction in general, and Rob's place in it in particular.
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