King Rolen's Kin: Rolen's Bastard Trailer

I found the link to this trailer through Locus's monitor section. If you like scifi, its great to troll through the list and see what new books are out. Its got pretty handy encapsulation of reactions to the books on the list, and notes on their extra features, marketing, ect.

William Gibson's new book trailer - "Zero History"

Found this on io9.

Major Karnage Chapter 1. and other matters.

I was looking at the publisher Chizine's website, and found this. I haven't watched it yet, so it may be terrible, but felt obligated to post something on here. So...



I'm reading A Book Of Tongues right now, by Gemma Files, also out on Chizine. It is pretty good, despite bordering on gay erotica. When I picked it up I knew it featured a homosexual relationship, but it goes father than that. It's not the gay sex that's been problematic for me, its the presence of graphic sex as a major part of the narrative. If you have a kid under 18 it may not be appropriate. I probably would have put the book down if it was hetero sex, But my liberal sensibilities haven't let me act on any possible bias. I', glad I listened to them because the book has just gotten interesting again.

So far the book has been enjoyable, the weird west style is tight, the magic is dirty, multicultural, and dark. I see some problems with the end of the second act, but I'll save my judgment until I finish the book. I may or may not write a review, although given all I've read and not written about, I doubt this will be the book to change anything.

The Electric Church in One Minute

The Avery Cates books (The Electric church, The Digital Plague, and The Eternal Prinson) are among the best cyberpunk ever written, and certainly worth being ranked in top 3 best cyberpunk stories of last 5 years (as a trilogy). In this youtube video, Author Jeff Somers sums up his first book, The Electric Plague in under a minute. Warning: There are a few spoilers and loads of whit.