Val's Random Comments

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is another one of those books everybody but me has read. It is one of the few works of science...

I read The Dragon's Path , the fist novel in Daniel Abraham's Dagger and Coin quintet in 2011, not too long after it had been publ...

Since I have been reasonably productive over the past few weeks I decided to sign of for NetGalley the other day and look around for a few...

In September 2011, prompted by the many references to science fiction novels in Jo Walton's Among Others , I ran a poll on the blog a...

South Afircan writer Lauren Beukes created quite a stir with her first two novels. They were published by Angry Robot, a publisher who lik...

I picked Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang as my third read for the Women of Genre Fiction reading challenge . It's another one that I...

The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate is one of the three stories by Ted Chiang I hadn't read yet. The other two are What's E...

I'm terribly late reading this book. Usually when Robinson has a new novel out I read it as soon as I can get my hands on it. For some...

I ran out of books to read on my recent trip to Norway so I borrowed one of the books that my girlfriend had left behind. Sheepfarmer'...

Luck of the Wheels (1989) is the final part in Robin Hobb’s Ki and Vandien quartet. I’ve reread the previous three volumes last year and ...