Category Archives: Book Review
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The Wonderful Quality of New Weird
Leave a commentFebruary 2, 2013 by Charles Dickey
This is a review of The New Weird, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer and published by Tachyon Publications, 2008 …
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Kurzweil’s Sexy Machines
Leave a commentNovember 27, 2012 by Charles Dickey
This is a review of Ray Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines, cross-posted from Goodreads. I didn’t bother to write …
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Highly Sensitive? Highly Subjective.
Leave a commentAugust 22, 2012 by Charles Dickey
Here’s my review of Elaine Aron’s book The Highly Sensitive Person, published in 1997. Like all my reviews, it’s cross-posted …
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Don’t Read The Night Strangers
Leave a commentJuly 29, 2012 by Charles Dickey
Here’s my review of Chris Bohjalian’s novel The Night Strangers, cross-posted from Goodreads: Disappointing. Bohjalian’s characters largely fall out as …
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I Wanted to Read Fritz Leiber, but Martin H. Greenberg Got in the Way
Leave a commentMay 1, 2012 by Charles Dickey
I play Dungeons & Dragons. I’ve played Dungeons & Dragons since I was knee high to a duergar. If you …
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