This month I am recommending The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. When Harry August dies, he is reborn as himself at the same time and to the same parents, but with the memories of his previous lives intact. When he learns that another person like him is manipulating history for his own selfish ends … Continue reading Recommended Reading: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Of all the sub-genres crowded under the broad umbrella of "speculative fiction," slipstream is probably the trickiest to nail down. Bruce Sterling, who coined the term, called slipstream "...a kind of writing which simply makes you feel very strange; the way that living in the twentieth century makes you feel, if you are a person of a certain sensibility." (Presumably, … Continue reading The slippery genre of slipstream…
I absolutely loved A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. A writer living on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia finds a package washed ashore from Japan containing a diary and becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to the teenage girl who wrote it. This novel has all the elements I enjoy, … Continue reading Recommended Reading: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Today I am recommending The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. Mitchell's latest novel is a genre-bending epic spanning sixty years, about the people whose fates are altered by an ongoing war between immortals. This one is going to make a lot of "Best of 2014" lists. The book grew on me a lot after I was done reading it. I … Continue reading Recommended Reading: The Bone Clocks
