by Neil | Feb 3, 2009 | Books, Review, Science Fiction
After months of neglect I finally have a new review up at bookrater.co.uk. You can see what I thought of Ian McDonald’s Brasyl here. A short preview follows: Marcelina Hoffman is a reality TV producer who likes martial arts and will contemplate most things in...by Neil | Oct 17, 2008 | Books, Neil Gaiman, Review
I’ve reviewed The Graveyard Book over at www.bookrater.co.uk: The story goes that it was a small cemetery near Gaiman’s house in the eighties, where he used to take his son to ride on his tricycle, that merged, in the author’s head, with The Jungle Book to...by Neil | Apr 6, 2008 | Books, Comment, Entertainment, Fiction, Neil Gaiman, Reading, Review, Thoughts
I read Odd and the Frost Giants yesterday as a break from labouring on The Woodsman. Something I could fall into for an hour in order to think about something else; no real intention to review it. Reviewing Neil’s work is hard because I am quite clearly and obviously...by Neil | Apr 5, 2008 | Books, Comment, Fiction, Reading, Review, Thoughts, Urban Fantasy
I’m generally speaking not a big fan of writers utilising successful, well-established, ideas and conceits as their central Big Idea for novels. On the face of it, that’s what Unlundun is: China’s version of Neverwhere. Albeit aimed at a younger audience. And a...