|
|
|
-
1.
Charlie Human – Kill Baxter
-
(Review)
-
I've just been reading a number of (differing...) definitions of Magic Realism and Urban Fantasy, and still cannot decide which of those Charlie Human's books fall into. Heck, it could even be YA... So, ...
-
Created on 12 June 2015
-
2.
Charlie Human - Apocalypse Now Now
-
(Review)
-
Here’s another nice, fresh, and brand new slice of Speculative Fiction from the booming South African SF scene, this time in the shape of Charlie Human’s debut novel; a high-octane Urban Fantasy story ...
-
Created on 04 November 2013
-
3.
Charlie Human - Dance Dance Revolution
-
(Short Stories)
-
Charlie Human has a rather marvellous story up on the World SF Blog, called Dance Dance Revolution.
Essentially this is about crack urben ground assault troops, who control their Killbots by dancing. ...
-
Created on 09 May 2011
-
4.
Charles Stross – Quantum of Nightmares
-
(Review)
-
... the final one... don't count on this with Charlie, though!) lined up, and expect further enjoyment, and hopefully a bit of escapism between the all-too-real-feeling bits extrapolated from our current society! ...
-
Created on 26 March 2023
-
5.
Charles Stross – Dead Lies Dreaming
-
(Review)
-
... topics are actually quite heavy on grief, on personal consequences, on the emotional toll of leaving loved ones (or their shells) in care homes (knowing some of the circumstances Charlie wrote this under ...
-
Created on 03 April 2022
-
6.
Cory Doctorow - Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
-
(Review)
-
... mountain, and his mother a washing machine (no, not kidding). We learn he has several brothers - first there is Billy (or Bob, Brad, Benny…), who can see into the future. Then Charlie (Clem, Carlos, Cory…), ...
-
Created on 19 January 2021
-
7.
Peter Watts Is An Angry Sentient Tumor
-
(Review)
-
... in a discussion on Charlie Stross’ blog, just to throw in another cracking quote; and is the go-to author for a number of people when their outlook on life, our society, and our future becomes a little ...
-
Created on 09 March 2020
-
8.
N.K. Jemisin - The City Born Great
-
(Short Stories)
-
... in its detail and drive towards (re)birth, and reminiscent of the magic Charlie Human can evoke when he's not too focused on action. And if I feel that some parts of the climactic scene do not live up ...
-
Created on 13 November 2018
-
9.
Peter Watts – The Freeze-Frame Revolution
-
(Review)
-
... a “sociological futurist Lovecraft” in a discussion on Charlie Stross’ blog - a quip which predates the story at hand, but is nevertheless fully appropriate, too.
The Freeze-Frame Revolution is set in ...
-
Created on 17 July 2018
-
10.
Charles Stross - The Nightmare Stacks
-
(Review)
-
... in the dating/girlfriend/relationship stakes, and Cassie who has loads, but from a seriously different and unhelpful societal background is deliciously, toe-curlingly embarrassing. And Charlie could have ...
-
Created on 02 April 2018
-
11.
Charles Stross - The Annihilation Score
-
(Review)
-
... blog, antipope.org. And yes, if you’re new to Charlie, or this series - whilst you could start with this book as it’s a bit of a departure and it provides some background data dumps and explanation I would ...
-
Created on 07 May 2017
-
12.
Charles Stross - Empire Games
-
(Review)
-
... so am coming at this with a ‘clean’ background. So, although Charlie considers this be a viable jumping-on point - any misunderstandings below concerning the setting are obviously mine, and most likely ...
-
Created on 12 April 2017
-
13.
Kim Curran - Shift
-
(Review)
-
... in my recent reading, done in a much more entertaining and colourful fashion by Charlie Human in his novels Apocalypse Now Now and Kill Baxter (and the plot summary very much reads the same).
Having ...
-
Created on 07 October 2016
-
14.
Charles Stross – The Apocalypse Codex
-
(Review)
-
... and at the bar. The Laundry Files, of which The Apocalypse Codex is the 4th instalment, is a heady mix of IT-geeky in-jokes (Charlie has a background, you see), British-style secret service capers, and ...
-
Created on 24 March 2016
-
15.
Charles Stross - Neptune’s Brood
-
(Review)
-
... (ok, ok, I help. Flowers). The book is, as I have indicated further up, shortlisted for the 2014 Hugo Award. I have not read all the competitors, so cannot fully judge the field, and Charlie's chances ...
-
Created on 16 August 2014
-
16.
Ellen Datlow (Ed.) - Lovecraft's Monster
-
(Review)
-
... and movements – but always based on Lovecraft's classic horror, if not his style of writing (which has its benefits – just read Charlie Stross' Hugo-nominated Novella Equoid for more on that). Contributors ...
-
Created on 09 June 2014
-
17.
Chuck Wendig – The Blue Blazes
-
(Review)
-
Chuck Wendig is a writer who had escaped my attention so far (except for his endorsement on Charlie Human’s Apocalypse Now Now!), despite ISFDB listing 10 novels, one collection, one anthology, a chapterbook, ...
-
Created on 04 February 2014
-
18.
Peter Watts – Beyond the Rift
-
(Review)
-
... of short stories to his name; Beyond the Rift, the topic of this review, being the latest of those. He was recently labelled a “sociological futurist Lovecraft” in a discussion on Charlie Stross’ blog ...
-
Created on 19 December 2013
-
19.
Harry Connolly – Child of Fire
-
(Review)
-
... from Charlie Stross (thanks, I think!). There definitely is a relationship to Stross stories like Atrocity Archives (which I rather liked); although 20 Palaces is much less geeky (which is one of the attractions ...
-
Created on 24 April 2012
-
20.
The New Weird
-
(Short Stories)
-
... Revolution by Charlie Human.
The (short) story can be read in full on Lavie's Blog: Enter the Dragon. Later, Enter Another.
And to up the weirdness stakes, considerably, I suggest you follow this ...
-
Created on 18 January 2012
|
|
|
|
