NY: Orbit Books, 2015.
I finally read Jemisin’s earlier “Inheritance” trilogy a few months ago and enjoyed it immensely. I’m pleased to discover that the first volume of her more recent “Broken Earth” trilogy is of equally high quality. There’s a reason it won the Hugo and was nominated for the Nebula and several other major awards. The author’s worldbuilding skills are fully on display and the characters and the setting will rope you into the story from the first page.
NY: Ballantine, 2014.
This is the second of O’Malley’s graphic novels I’ve read and I think I’m becoming a fan. He’s certainly a first-rate writer. This one is about Katie, who’s got things going pretty good in her life — only twenty-eight and already the head chef in her own very popular restaurant, with plans to open another one of which she’ll also be half-owner.
NY: Norton, 2008.
Anyone who studies Classical history has to have read Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — but you should also recognize that modern views of that vanished world have changed considerably since Gibbon’s day, more than two hundred years ago.
Continue reading “Wells, Peter S. Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered.”
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