Tag: Dave Freer
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Books, Art, Varied Diversions
I have a couple of books to commend to you all, dear readers. By some of my favorite living authors, they are fresh off the press. Smell those toasty electrons! mmmm new books… Dave Freer’s Cloud-Castles is a space opera with his usual intense world-building based in sound science, peopled by all-too-human characters and delightfully…
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Eat This While You Read That: Dave Freer
This is a repost of the First Reader’s favorite thing I made during the year of authors and food I blogged a while back. I miss that, I wish I had the time again… but today, it’s the First Reader’s birthday, so I’m sharing this recipe and plan to make it for him this evening. …
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Review: Tom
Continuing with my impromptu Young Adults reading week, I offer you Tom, by Dave Freer. While not sold exclusively as young adult, and certainly eminently readable by all ages, Tom is going to be appealing to teen boys (and girls who don’t want a romance as the central plot all the time). I’ve been a…
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Review: Aggregation
While I have been reading this past week or so, I haven’t read any of the books I’d planned to review. I read Dave Freer’s deeply tongue-in-cheek noir detective send up, The Bolg and the Beautiful, a continuation of the adventures of his immortal Pictish king turned private eye. This one centers around Freya, her…
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A Little Circus
#hugoawards #sadpuppies The guy who is just too damn obstinate, brave, hell maybe even stupid to accept he’s beaten. Who takes on odds fifty or fifty thousand to one and… Probably gets knocked flat. And gets up again and tries again. It’s a frontier thing, I think. Kowtowing to authority (no matter who that…
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An Alternative Point of View
Dave Freer on the ongoing Hugo Brouhaha Speaking of points of view, I wanted to add something to Brad’s Torgersen very gentle point of view on the pushback against the Sad Puppies 3. I think it is fairly important when writing a point of view to establish where it comes from, and what could motivate…
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Coffee in the Fog
I’m sitting here sipping coffee with almond milk in it, looking out at the fog. There was a train a little bit ago, with the whistle blowing all the way through town because of the heavy fog. I’m still not used to train whistles, living in New England and Alaska, trains were not part of…
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Science Fiction Question
My mother and I have been talking about small livestock – it’s her specialty – and space colonization. She brought something up, and the only title that leaped to my mind was Dave Freer’s Slow Train to Arcturus. Only (it’s been a while since I read that) I think the segments of that generation ship that…
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Review: Joy
So my review is a day early, but it gives me an opportunity to say I’m thankful for someone. *Redacted* years ago, I fell into good company. A small writing support group, they helped me regain confidence after an earlier bad writing group experience where in time I had learned to just shut up, or…
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Not a Review
This isn’t a review, per se, because I haven’t been reading the ‘right’ books recently. Not the ones I would normally review for my readers. If you’re wondering what that means, it means I haven’t had the time to give full mental capacity to the books I need to review, and I was sick yesterday,…
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Bureaucracy and Voting
As some of you know, I’m part of the regular Raiding Party that guests over at According to Hoyt. My post today deals with the Rule of Law, and the way it is insidiously being threatened all around us. Dave Freer is talking about publishing over at Mad Genius Club today, but what he says…