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Lord of the Silent

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books

I fin­ished read­ing Eliz­a­beth Peter’s Lord of the Silent. I really like how she’s altered the rela­tion­ship between Ram­ses and Ameila to be more open and more like they’re equals rather than just mother and child; how­ever the more I see Sethos in his new rela­tion­ship to the Emer­sons, the less I like it. It just feels a bit cheesy and make Sethos less of an inter­est­ing char­ac­ter. Also, while I had fun read­ing this book; it’s defi­nately not one of her bet­ter works. The plot felt fairly con­trived, rather than flow­ing smoothly like most of her ear­lier books did. Still, over­all it was a fun read; so I’ll give it 3.75 points out of 5.

Next up, I’m read­ing Mas­ter­pieces: The Best Sci­ence Fic­tion of the 20th Cen­tury. I was in B&N the other night brows­ing their Sci/Fi-Fantasy selec­tions, say­ing to myself that it was all schlock, when I stopped by the Orson Scott Card shelf to see if his lat­est Alvin the Maker book was in paper­back yet (if it was, it wasn’t on the shelf) and noticed this Mas­ter­pieces book. When I saw that Mr. Card was the edi­tor; it imme­di­ately peeked my inter­est as I’ve enjoyed his own work for many years now and I was curi­ous to see who he’d pick for a col­lec­tion titled Mas­ter­pieces. Then I looked over the cover and saw the top 6 names that had been choosen: Asi­mov, Clarke, Gib­son, Hein­lein, Le Guin and Pohl. All authors I’ve read and enjoyed, so I knew I’d end up buy­ing the boo (though I made Ariesna wait a bit for me to read the first story in the book. Not very nice of me I sup­pose, but she’d gone won­der­ing off look­ing at all the trans­lated manga first; so I fig­ured turn about is fair play. :)

Side­note: While I was double-checking that I’d got­ten the link to Mr. Card’s site cor­rect; I noticed that appar­ently an Ender’s Game movie is in pro­duc­tion! Hope­fully, Hol­ly­wood won’t totally destroy it. For more details, go here.

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