I was able to pick up Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas – all hail scrounged change jars, not to mention change counting machines that will issue you full-credit slips for Amazon – on the Kindle, and let me tell you: damn, that was a good read. Intensely meta, and maybe the codas were the best part – but Scalzi hit this one out of the park. Pick it up.
And that will replace Tigana
Moe Lane
Tigana was written by Guy Gavriel Kay, and I’m not going to beat around the bush, here: Kay is one of my favorite authors, and Tigana is one of the best damn books he’s ever written. It’s low-to-mid-level fantasy based around the late medieval/early Renaissance Italian city-state period, and manages to be extremely evocative of the time period without exploiting it. Check it out.
Yup, short reign for The Collected Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Trying to keep these a little fresher. Continue reading Book of the Week: Tigana.
