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Counting down: 25 days to the hen do, 37 days until we fly, 45 until the Big Day!
I figure I might as well do the book report thingummy. So.
1. Chris Roberson - The Dragon's Nine Sons:
This is the first novel set in the Celestial Empire. Imperial China rules the Earth, apart from the lands belonging to the blood-thirsty and savage Mexica. The First Mexica War has been fought to a stalemate. But the Celestial Empire has begun colonising Fire Star (Mars), and the Mexica want it, provoking the Second Mexica War. Fought in space and on the surface of Fire Star, the conflict drags on until a band of Chinese prisoners are chosen to pilot a captured Mexica spaceship to Xolotl, the Mexica's secret asteroid base. Their mission: to destroy the base. But when they get there, they find dozens of Chinese prisoners who will be sacrificed to keep the Mexica's blood-based technology functioning. Their suicide mission rapidly becomes a rescue mission - but the base must still be destroyed.
Well, I wrote a great review. And then realised that I'd actually written the book review I owe Hub, rather than a brief lj review. And since it's a paid review, I can't post it here. Anyway, if you want to read the rest, you'll have to sign up to Hub (which is free; donations always welcome) and wait for it to come out. Sorry!
The Dragon's Nine Suns will be published in February. All-in-all, it's well worth a read. And if you can't wait until it's published, you can always go to Solaris Books, where you can read a free chapter, or read Three Unbroken, which is free. It's another novel about the Celestial Empire and the Second Mexica War, with a new chapter being loaded up each week.
Next up? The new Iain M. Banks novel, Matter, also published in February.
I figure I might as well do the book report thingummy. So.
1. Chris Roberson - The Dragon's Nine Sons:
This is the first novel set in the Celestial Empire. Imperial China rules the Earth, apart from the lands belonging to the blood-thirsty and savage Mexica. The First Mexica War has been fought to a stalemate. But the Celestial Empire has begun colonising Fire Star (Mars), and the Mexica want it, provoking the Second Mexica War. Fought in space and on the surface of Fire Star, the conflict drags on until a band of Chinese prisoners are chosen to pilot a captured Mexica spaceship to Xolotl, the Mexica's secret asteroid base. Their mission: to destroy the base. But when they get there, they find dozens of Chinese prisoners who will be sacrificed to keep the Mexica's blood-based technology functioning. Their suicide mission rapidly becomes a rescue mission - but the base must still be destroyed.
Well, I wrote a great review. And then realised that I'd actually written the book review I owe Hub, rather than a brief lj review. And since it's a paid review, I can't post it here. Anyway, if you want to read the rest, you'll have to sign up to Hub (which is free; donations always welcome) and wait for it to come out. Sorry!
The Dragon's Nine Suns will be published in February. All-in-all, it's well worth a read. And if you can't wait until it's published, you can always go to Solaris Books, where you can read a free chapter, or read Three Unbroken, which is free. It's another novel about the Celestial Empire and the Second Mexica War, with a new chapter being loaded up each week.
Next up? The new Iain M. Banks novel, Matter, also published in February.
