This book contains the following interconnected short stories: Wild Garlic, On a Phantom Tide, The Shade of Lo Man Gong, Pagan Night, Desert Night Ride, Caravan of Death, Tong Yun Guy, Shaunessy Fong, Tinsel Chink, In the Temple of Forgotten Spirits. They capture the adventures of Jack Hong as he hi...
Brainycat's 5 "B"s:blood: 4boobs: 2bombs: 4bondage: 1blasphemy: 3Stars: 3.5Bechdel Test: PASSDeggan's Rule: PASS (with a non-literal interpretation of the test that preserves the intention)Gay Bechdel Test: PASS Please note: I don't review to provide synopses, I review to share a purely visceral rea...
This book was fun and engaging, which is typical for this series. One character--not telling who!--makes a major confession as to his/her identity and history. That was a good thing, but the one problem with it was that same character's beat-around-the-bush reference to an STD. The character says...
This continues the wonderful "Robot City" series. It'll be interesting to see how it ends, since this is the penultimate novel.
This is not the best book in the series. Firstly, I'm not very interested in the Jerry character. He's written with no arc to speak of, just a flat pathos that is perpetually stuck in the same monotonous routine, over and over.A new type of ace is introduced, the "jumpers". The way this power works,...
I picked this edition only because it has the cover art. I have it in hardback (same cover), but for some reason GoodReads' record for the HB lacks the art. Anyways, I read this back in 2000. A very intriguing anthology. Here is what I wrote in my journal back then: >>The book is a collection of sho...
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