Welcome to my favorite reads of 2009! Below is a list by category of the books I most enjoyed reading in 2009. Obviously, this a list based on my personal tastes (which often clash with the accepted preferences I’ve found) and does not mean that other 85 books I read in 2009 are no good, [...]
Posts under ‘Night Shade Books’
Book Review: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
# Genre: Apocalyptic Fiction, Science Fiction
# Hardcover: 300 pages
# Publisher: Night Shade Books
# Publication Date: September 15, 2009
# ISBN-10: 1597801577
# ISBN-13: 978-1597801577
# Author Website: Paolo Bacigalupi
In The Windup Girl, Paolo with-the-unpronounceable-last-name (Bacigalupi), uses fiction to provide social commentary on such things as the environment, big business, international relations, and religion. Using themes of abandonment, failure, [...]
Book Review: Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams
# Genre: Sword and Planet; Hard SF
# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Night Shade Books
#Publication Date: April 15, 2009
# ISBN-10: 1597801518
# ISBN-13: 978-1597801515
They are the greatest questions humanity has ever faced. Who are we? Why do we exist? What is our purpose? We live in a time of questing for the answers, a time of existentialism [...]
Book Review: Eclipse Two edited by Jonathan Strahan
# Editor: Jonathan Strahan
# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Night Shade Books
# Publication Date: November 15, 2008
# ISBN-10: 1597801364
# ISBN-13: 978-1597801362
With Eclipse One, Jonathan Strahan is believed to have nearly single-handedly (kudos go to Lou Anders at Pyr as well) revived the non-themed anthology. Two of the stories were award nominees. It is an oft-talked about [...]
Book Review: The Princes of the Golden Cage by Nathalie Mallet
Genre: Mystery, Fantasy
ISBN: 1597800902
ISBN-13: 9781597800907
Format: Paperback, 256pp
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Pub. Date: August 2007
Nathalie Mallet�s debut novel, The Princes of the Golden Cage, hits the ground with both feet and takes off running. From the very first page the action is heart-pounding, the intrigue mysterious, and the story creative.
Prince Amir and his brothers are all [...]
