A real oddball of a novel, which is mostly good, but occasionally puzzling. Background is thus: a quantum bomb (babble babble something about CERN technobabble) was set off in the early aughts, reordering history and setting Earth in touch with other realms, stuff like where elves and demons and the...
Spoiler Rating: High Hello again, Katie! At last, your long-awaited letter. I write to you about a sci fi/fantasy thing (I struggled to find a word to describe it; "thing" does well enough, I guess) by Justina Robson: Keeping It Real. As you're aware, I'm not really a science fiction reader (u...
I don't usually add a synopsis on my reviews here but I can't do the plot justice so I'll add this to do it for me. The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy co...
Lila Black has had an interesting history with Elves. Magic, elemental energy, demons and technology exist side-by-side in this alternative version of our world. A little Shadowrunish, or maybe TORG, there was a Quantum Bom and the spaces between the different dimensions were pulled together, or r...
First of all, the writing style reminded me strongly of Lilith Saintcrow because it pushed the heroine constantly to the limits of her endurance. More than once I wondered how Lila will come out of the impossible situations she was getting into... and she did come out swinging, although not without ...
Fun read, even if it did wander off into slightly overly romancey territory towards the end (It didn't help that I wasn't rooting for the hero,) and some of the plot/intrigue seemed a bit random. The lively sf-fantasy mishmash of the setting, and in particular the relative darkness of Lila's charact...
Unlike anything I've ever read before, reminiscent of The Lord of the Rings, On the Road, and Blade Runner all rolled into one. Magical and lyric and lovely, this book sweeps from page to page like breathing, wrapping you in the world building so completely it is both foreign and utterly encompassi...
Surprising, unusual world and heroine. The heroine is a cyborg blend, transformed by the government after nearly fatal injuries, and is now unable to contact people from her old life. Reasons for that still remain unclear to me, but it's used to as a device for emotional isolation. For those who l...
Lila Black has had an interesting history with Elves. Magic, elemental energy, demons and technology exist side-by-side in this alternative version of our world. A little Shadowrunish, or maybe TORG, there was a Quantum Bom and the spaces between the different dimensions were pulled together, or r...
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