Val's Random Comments

About a month ago author Emily Devenport approached me with a request to review her Young Adult novel Spirits of Glory . I was not familia...

For my fifth Grand Master reading challenge, this project may well be the only one at Random Comments that runs on schedule, I decided to ...

The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award clearly shows signs of the imbalance between men and women in science fiction. Of the 28 winn...

Ken MacLeod is one of the science fiction writers whose works has been on my wishlist for quite a while but I've never actually gotten...

I came across this particular project on one of the many blogs I follow. Unfortunately, it drowned in the dozens of entries from this week I...

I reread the first two parts of this trilogy in 2011 so I thought it was past time to wrap it up. Kushiel's Avatar is the third novel...

Got back home around 20:00 last night. Very tired now, especially since I had to work today. Don't think I was much use there. Had a gre...

I've been a little preoccupied recently, mostly with my new job but also with an upcoming trip to Bergen in Norway. I'm flying there...

Ride the Moon is the first publication of Canadian publisher Tyche Books . It appeared on the last day of February but due to my extremel...

I've always been a bit obsessed with statistics so Google Analytics is a treasure trove for me. Not that there is too much to see there....