The Quantum Rose
This is one of those stories about a buncha Mayans being abducted by aliens, genetically manipulated and given super far future tech and left on a new planet, exploring space and doing their own genetic manipulations to populate lots of planets while starting an empire run by a family of super telepaths, then losing everything with all the worlds regressing to Iron Age tech until Earth catches up with the space Mayans and everyone starts traveling the stars searching for lost weird humans again. Ok, really it’s a story about one space Mayan falling in love with one abusive guy and one alcoholic guy and the author pretends it has something to do with quantum physics. Read the rest of this entry »
The Unicorn Dancer
Usually books about unicorns require that the female characters be virgins. They also decide that the best way to bring about tension about the female/unicorn relationship is to threaten her with rape constantly. Except there was this one book I read many years ago about a teenage boy virgin who was a post-apocalyptic samurai with a unicorn best friend and he chooses banging his girlfriend over his unicorn pal who walks away sadly into the sunset, but I digress. This book is refreshing in that while the unicorn prefers the company of women, he looks for traits other than an intact hymen when selecting who he will allow to ride him.
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Dragon's Tongue
I finished reading this book two days ago. I’ve been procrastinating when it comes to writing about it because there’s not a whole lot I can do to make it funny. It’s a pretty standard fantasy romp that has been executed well. I found little about the story itself objectionable. The writing occasionally tries to be more clever than the author is capable of but it never gets painfully self indulgent. But just when I think there’s nothing to say about Dragon’s Tongue, I remember the introduction.
