Enemy of Entropy

Review: Carnival by Elizabeth Bear

21 March 2008, 1:16 am. 2 Comments. Filed under Reading.

Cover of CarnivalEliz­a­beth Bear suc­ceeds where David Brin failed in Glory Sea­son. What would a woman-​​dominated human soci­ety look like? How would it come about? Why? What, if any, role would males play? How would that soci­ety inter­act with more “tra­di­tional,” male-​​dominated human soci­eties?
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Review: New Amsterdam

16 February 2008, 6:30 pm. 4 Comments. Filed under Reading.

I’m all infat­u­ated with yet another author, my friends, so I must warn you that you’ll be read­ing much more about Eliz­a­beth Bear here in com­ing weeks.

Cover of New Amsterdam by Elizabeth BearNew Ams­ter­dam is an anthol­ogy of con­nected sto­ries twined around two main char­ac­ters. “The Great Detec­tive” is vam­pire Sebastien de Ulloa. Lady Abi­gail Irene Gar­rett is a foren­sic sor­ceror, Detec­tive Crown Inves­ti­ga­tor in His Majesty’s Ser­vice in the colony of New Ams­ter­dam. At the begin­ning of the 20th cen­tury, North Amer­ica is still a patch­work of Euro­pean colonies, with all the atten­dant polit­i­cal intrigue and mil­i­tary ten­sion.
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I hate it when that happens

17 January 2008, 12:31 am. Comments Off. Filed under Blogging, Family, Health, Home, News, Relationships, Sex, politics.

I had an entry almost com­pletely writ­ten, and it was good. Then I hit some­thing badly with my numb hand, and my browser backed up a page. Now the entry is all gone. Yes, I should have saved some­time while writ­ing, but I was on a roll.

So you’ll have to set­tle for know­ing that I spent the day recov­er­ing from yes­ter­day but my body is still pissy at me. Oth­er­wise, I think the ACLU is very con­fused about what “pub­lic” means. Accord­ing to the APA, I am not myth­i­cal (which is a big relief), and researchers at the Uni­ver­sity of San Diego say that same sex rela­tion­ships may be health­ier than oppo­site sex cou­plings. Finally, the Queen is firmly “low­er­ing the ‘chav’ fac­tor” at Royal Ascot, which is sure to make the world a far safer place. Or something.

 

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