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  Things at Planet Ticonderoga	By Russell B. Farr
  Things are busy here but we should have some updates shortly.
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  REVIEW: Sound Mind by Tricia Sullivan	By Liz G
  Sound Mind – Tricia Sullivan
  Hachette Livre Orbit, 2007
  ISBN: 978-1-84149-405-0
  Reviewed by Jacinta Rosielle
  As a reader with an adoration of stories which make me question what is real, and as a musician with a hankering for experimentation, this book had swallowed me whole within the first twenty pages. I hadn't read any books by Tricia Sullivan before and on the few occasions that I'd closed the book I was having to wipe a few spots of drool off the back cover as I eyed the thumbnails of two of her other novels, making plans to order these sometime soon.
  reviews	tags: hachette livre, jacinta rosielle, orbit, reviews, tricia sullivan
  REVIEW: Wicked by Gregory Maguire	By Liz G
  Wicked – Gregory Maquire
  Harper Collins, 2008 (reprint)
  ISBN: 978-0-06-135096-2
  The story of the life of the Wicked Witch of the West is a very intesting premise for a number of reasons. The Wizard of Oz is an iconic story in our culture and has been made reference to in many other forms of text, including television, over the years. Whole cartoons have been based around it and single lines have become part of standard communication. Tapping into that interest while adding to the story and at the same time giving readers a chance to think about how people become who they are always stood a good chance of success. The author has not failed in this.
  reviews	tags: gregory maguire, harper collins, kate smith, reviews
  REVIEW: Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay	By Liz G
  ISBN: 978-0-7432-5251-5
  Reviewed by Cat Sparks
  Fifteen-year-old Canadian Ned Marriner is spending six weeks in France, accompanying his famous photographer father and entourage, worried about his doctor mother who's on assignment for Medicines sans Frontiers in war torn Sudan. A chance meeting with history-savy American exchange student Kate in the Saint-Sauver Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence is followed by an encounter with a bald scar-faced man wielding a knife and a mystery: I think the world will end before I ever find him in time.
  reviews	tags: cat sparks, guy gavriel kay, reviews, simon & schuster
  REVIEW: Incandescence by Greg Egan	By Liz G
  Hachette Livre Orion Gollancz, 2008
  RRP: AU$35
  ISBN: 978-0-575-08163-5
  Reviewed by Mark Cooper
  The thing you have to remember when you're dealing with Greg Egan is that this is hard science fiction. Any review of his work has to start from that point. The science and the ideas that spring from the science are the most important things in his books. If you don't like that, you don't like Greg Egan. If you want more than that, you won't find it here.
  reviews	tags: gollancz, greg egan, hachette livre, mark cooper, orion, reviews
  REVIEW: The Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski	By Liz G
  The Blood of Elves – Andrzej Sapkowski
  Orion Gollancz, 2008
  ISBN: 978-057-508318-9
  Having read, and thoroughly enjoyed his previous book The Last Wish in so many ways, I was a little disappointed in The Blood of Elves. The story continues its focus on Geralt of Rivia but begins to show the larger scope of events in the world.
  reviews	tags: andrzej sapkowski, gollancz, hachette livre, kate smith, orion, reviews
  REVIEW: Firmin by Sam Savage	By Liz G
  Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife – Sam Savage
  ISBN: 9780297854586
  Reviewed by Lev Lafayette
  If all books were this good reviewers wouldn't be needed. The setting, character and plot summary on the back cover would suffice. Usually, I am perhaps a somewhat harsh critic, recognising the empirical truth of Sturgeon's Law with the bell curve of cultural products indicating that the overwhelming majority of novels simply do not reach the standard of greatness – and I love greatness in the arts. But this novel is different; it is a great novel. I have had it my possession for three days and I've read it four times; I'm getting obsessive and that is not at all to my normal temperament by any stretch of the imagination.
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