A lot of people describe Scalzi’s Old Man's War novels as military science fiction, but I would classify its sequel Zoë’s Tale as a space opera. It’s a story about, well, Zoë, a teenage girl whose parents are invited to take leadership roles in building a colony on a new planet. Zoë is an enthusiastic member of the group sent to colonize Roanoke, despite the risks—and the risks are considerable even before the political machinations of greater powers boil to the surface. Continue reading Zoë’s Tale
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Someone posted some lame review on Amazon. Sounds like she didn't read the whole book. Complained about the first 2 lines of the first 2 chapters, and then made up a third line to complain about!
Everyone go mark it 'not helpful'!!
Similarly, the dialogue was a bit jarring: the prince and the princess particularly sounded like a couple of cocky, fairly smart college students.
I promptly went out and bought Elantris and started reading it. I then found out it was about $10 cheaper at Amazon, ordered it there, returned it to Barnes and Noble, and have been about to bite my hand off ever since. It shipped yesterday. It can get here tomorrow, right? Right?!
Is Ruth the mountain biker or was that someone else entirely?
As for sexism still being around, of course it is. It's just reversed its direction. We now live in a world where a man can be vilified for a statement he didn't make just because people are willing to belive the worst...because he's male. And where men can be widely portrayed as stupid and bumbling on TV with never a word said about it...because they're male.
"They believe if their love is strong enough they can change their partner's behaviour," Darker-Smith said.
Raoden looked the old man's eyes.
The Barnes & Noble Review
Brandon Sanderson's debut novel, Elantris -- an instant fantasy classic about a fallen city of the gods and its inexplicable rise from its own ruins -- is a singular storytelling tour de force that is absolutely beyond compare.
The city of Elantris was once the most beautiful in the world. Inhabited by a godlike populace and home to innumerable wonders, it attracted people from far and wide. But then something happened. The magic that powered Elantris suddenly disappeared. The once-radiant Elantrians became leprous creatures, and the city fell into shadow.
Ten years after the Punishment, Elantris is a ghost town, a "land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition," inhabited by those few who become afflicted with the Shaod, a dread disease that blackens the skin, stops the heart, and suspends those ill-fated souls in a state of nightmarish half death. Raoden, the beloved crown prince of Arelon, contracts the ailment just as he prepares for his wedding to Princess Sarene of Teod. He is secretly whisked away to Elantris, where King Iadon informs his people that his son has died of an "unexpected disease." Sarene arrives shortly thereafter, finding a kingdom on the verge of collapse. In the shadow of the ghostly city, Sarene vows to do what she can to stop the religious and political upheaval. Raoden, meanwhile, uncovers the jaw-dropping secrets of Elantris.
In a genre where mainstream success regularly leads to mind-numbing repetition (unnecessarily prolonged series that recycle predictable plotlines) and shameless mass imitation, true creative genius is often hard to find. Fantasy fans need not look any further for such genius -- Brandon Sanderson is his name, and Elantris is his calling card. Paul Goat Allen
