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Matt Fraction: The Five Fists of Science
So, basically, Edison is a villain (we knew this) and has teemed up with some other powerful men to try to summon a bunch of Lovecraftian horrors. Elsewhere, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla are cooking up a scheme to bring about world peace by way of steampunk mecha. Their plans... kind of collide. And it's fun.
Sandy Mitchell: Ciaphas Cain - Hero of the Imperium
Admittedly not great literature, but quite entertaining nevertheless. Cain really doesn't seem like the sort of character you'd expect walking around in the grimdark future, although his narration kind of tips over into "the-lady-doth-protest-too-much" territory. But it's fun and it has footnotes (what, it's all Terry Pratchett's fault, footnotes are cool!) and secret Hornblower cameo and stuff...
Den nye koloni
Well, science fiction is certainly not getting any less creative - interdimensional bicycle paths, pagan-gods-who-are-really-advanced-aliens meeting space travelling Christian monks, a really creepy invasion by alien giant bugs story, AU with Sarah Palin as US president initiating a project to turn the Moon into a giant cross in the sky...
Total number of books and comics read this month: 37
Currently reading: Bag Adonais spejl - ny dansk fantasy 2011 (which is more fantastic literature and less fantasy, really - I mean, the first short story wasn't even really fantastic, it was just fooling its main character into thinking it was...)
So, basically, Edison is a villain (we knew this) and has teemed up with some other powerful men to try to summon a bunch of Lovecraftian horrors. Elsewhere, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla are cooking up a scheme to bring about world peace by way of steampunk mecha. Their plans... kind of collide. And it's fun.
Sandy Mitchell: Ciaphas Cain - Hero of the Imperium
Admittedly not great literature, but quite entertaining nevertheless. Cain really doesn't seem like the sort of character you'd expect walking around in the grimdark future, although his narration kind of tips over into "the-lady-doth-protest-too-much" territory. But it's fun and it has footnotes (what, it's all Terry Pratchett's fault, footnotes are cool!) and secret Hornblower cameo and stuff...
Den nye koloni
Well, science fiction is certainly not getting any less creative - interdimensional bicycle paths, pagan-gods-who-are-really-advanced-aliens meeting space travelling Christian monks, a really creepy invasion by alien giant bugs story, AU with Sarah Palin as US president initiating a project to turn the Moon into a giant cross in the sky...
Total number of books and comics read this month: 37
Currently reading: Bag Adonais spejl - ny dansk fantasy 2011 (which is more fantastic literature and less fantasy, really - I mean, the first short story wasn't even really fantastic, it was just fooling its main character into thinking it was...)
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