More Books Read in 2010

[drplokta]

8. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
   
9. Eros Ascending by Mike Resnick
   
10. Iorich by Steven Brust
    
11. Eros at Zenith by Mike Resnick
    
12. In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield

No re-reads here.

Comments

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

What did you make of In Great Waters? /pred :-)

[drplokta]

It was well written and characterised, and I enjoyed it, but it wasn't vastly science-fictional. By which I mean that its central premise wasn't particularly rigorously extrapolated or examined. It felt like The Other Boleyn Girl (which admittedly I've not read, only seen as a movie) set in a slightly odd alternate history.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Depends what you think the central premise is. If you think it's the alternate history, probably (though see this). If you think (as I do) it's the depiction of human-but-alien perspectives, then no, not at all. :-)

[drplokta]

I would regard the central premise as the existence of an aquatic hominid species, interfertile with humans, and both the alternate history and the human-but-alien perspectives as being consequences arising from that premise. And I'd have liked to see a little more evidence that Whitfield had thought long and hard about the biology (especially the evolutionary biology).

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I think on that level it is definitely a fantasy.