I love KING LEAR. When I took Shakespeare in college, I wrote my research paper on Edmund. I argued that he had little chance to be anything but a villain given the thoughtless mistreatment of bastards at that time. He wore his illegitimacy like a scarlet letter, and even more than Hester Prynn’s, his crime […]
I vaguely recall seeing FALSE HEARTS around when it came out last year, but I wrote it off b/c conjoined twins—just one of those things I have no patience for. If I hadn’t read and enjoyed Shattered Minds, I doubt I’d have ever picked this one up. But I did, so here we are. And […]
This book . . . Gah. I didn’t know what I was getting into. I didn’t know the outside world would cease to exist the moment I started it until the moment I finished it (at roughly 3am, FYI). I didn’t know I would be haunted by the images from Carina’s dreamzealscape. Speaking of Carina, […]
In MARTIANS ABROAD’s version of the future, Mars has four colonies, all set up as independent business ventures. Polly and Charles Newton are the (nominally) twin children of the equivalent of one of Mars’ colonies’ President and/or CEO. Nominally b/c: . . . we were uncorked at the same time and grew up together. But […]