Category Archives: Reviews

In Review

Posted on Tuesday, February 5, 2013 by Keith

There’s a nice little review of my novella, The lives of Perfect Creatures over at Indie Ebook Reviews. (Don’t worry about the typo issue in the first sentence, I’m pushing a fix out as we speak).

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And That’s Why Goonies is the Greatest Movie Of All Time

Posted on Tuesday, August 7, 2012 by Keith

Over at Crooked Timber, John Holbo is discussing BFI’s Top 50 greatest films of All Time list. Like any such list, it’s subjective, peculiar, and bound to cause howls of outrage. John does make an interesting observation though, that overwhelmingly, … Continue reading →

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One More Shade of Grey, Just For Good Measure

Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 by Keith

For anyone who thought I was being harsh about Fifty Shades of Grey, here’s a review by Katrina Lumsden, who completely destroys any notion that it is in any way feminist: Now I’ll be totally honest, the biggest issue I … Continue reading →

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Fifty Shades of Perspective

Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2012 by Keith

Over at the New Statesmen, Laurie Penny writes in defense of Fifty Shades of Grey, and gets it all wrong: When you get down to it, the problem most people seem to have with Fifty Shades of Grey is that … Continue reading →

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The World of the Angrazi Raj

Posted on Monday, January 23, 2012 by Keith

The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling My rating: 4 of 5 stars Starting with an intriguing alternate history premise (a comet impact in the 19th century instigates the British empire to relocate to the Raj. By 2030, this Indian-English empire … Continue reading →

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The Word For Human In Any Language

Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2011 by Keith

Embassytown, By China Mieville This was a strange one. Not quite what you’d expect, either form a space opera or from China Mieville, and both in a good way. I don’t even know if you’d want to call it Space … Continue reading →

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How To Find Your Own North Pole

Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 by Keith

I just finished reading Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat. Leave it to a French Verne Fanatic to get Steampunk right. Instead of just gluing a bunch of random gears to a top hat and calling it Steampunk, Valtat incorporates the aesthetic … Continue reading →

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The Sound of One Atlas Shrugging

Posted on Friday, April 15, 2011 by Keith

So, Atlas Shrugged (Part 1 of what is sure to be the most interminable trilogy, ever) has a 6% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. As the faithful Randites tell it though, this is just the slander of parasites, who do not … Continue reading →

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Friends and Enemies

Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 by Keith

We weren’t going to see the Social Network but then we heard the inexplicable: that was good. You wouldn’t think there could be a way for this to be true. A 2 hour movie about the legal troubles of the … Continue reading →

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If You’re Seeing Snow, it’s Time to Change the Channel

Posted on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 by Keith

The book club is discussing Neuromancer this month. This is the second book by William Gibson I’ve read, the first being Spook Country. Since they were written a good 20 years apart, I’m taking them as emblematic of his writing … Continue reading →

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