Archive for October, 2006

Tanglewreck

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

by Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 0747580642
Tanglewreck is Winterson’s first foray into the young adult market. (The King of Capri is an illustrated book aimed at younger kids, and everything else she’s written has been very much intended for adult audiences.) Curiously, I think it is also her longest novel to date. I’ll admit, I very much wanted [...]

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The Light Ages

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

by Ian R. MacLeod
ISBN: 0441011497
Imagine if the power mined from the ground in Victorian England was not coal, but magic.
This is the basis of MacLeod’s fantastic alternate past: the world runs on aether, or so it seems. Royalty doesn’t matter, and science and engineering are stagnant because magic makes things possible that wouldn’t be if [...]

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