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Posted on 2015-11-04 at 6:14 by angelablackwell

The new location for this convention, Embassy Suites Concord, was quite an improvement over the crowded hotel of years past. There were more function rooms of larger size so all the panels had enough room, even those featuring John Scalzi. The dealer room was larger and had more vendors. The hallways are very wide so even with tables on both sides of the hallway people browsing on the two sides didn't bump into each other.

The location is not far from Concord Mills and all the eateries surrounding it so

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews The Builders by Daniel Polansky

Posted on 2015-11-03 at 5:51 by angelablackwell

Review of The Builders by Daniel Polansky (Tor.com November 3, 2015)

As fans of Mouse Guard, Mice Templar and Redwall stories, Your Humble Reviewers were thrilled to find an animal adventure story among the novellas. The Captain is a mouse who wears a hero coat, boots and a hat. He is fierce looking for a mouse because of a scar running down his face across where his right eye should be. He calls all his old cronies to meet at a bar called the Partisan’s. The party consists of a French-sounding stoat

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Supersymmetry by David Walton

Posted on 2015-10-29 at 17:37 by angelablackwell

Review of Supersymmetry by David Walton (September 1, 2015)

The physics-loving Kelleys of Superposition are back! This time Dad is retired, Sean is a Marine and the twins created in the last book, Sandra and Alex, are a cop and a physicist. Alex is working on a project with technology related to that which caused the incident fifteen years before. The brainchild behind it is a neurotic but brilliant man named Ryan Oronzi.

The varcolac return, of course, and for some reason seem really upset with the

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The Exploding Spaceship HonorCon Special Edition: Reviews of A Call to Arms and The Search for Gram

Posted on 2015-10-29 at 5:19 by angelablackwell

We have a military science fiction column this week because David Weber and Chris Kennedy will both be guests at Honorcon (www.honorcon.org) this weekend. This is a regional military science fiction convention which has many events centered on Weber’s Honorverse. [Editor's note: This year, HonorCon has expanded its programming to truly become a fully-fledged general military science fiction convention, with additional guests including Taylor Anderson (of the Destroyermen series), Marko Kloos, A.G. Riddle,

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman

Posted on 2015-10-26 at 23:59 by angelablackwell

Review of Silver on the Road: The Devil’s West #1 by Laura Anne Gilman (Saga Press, October 6, 2015)

A Weird West story with a teenage girl employed by the devil as the main character? The concept was so intriguing that Your Humble Reviewers had to read it.

Isobel comes of age and goes from being a child in the devil’s household to being the Territory’s Left Hand. Gabriel takes on being her mentor on the road and the two of them leave the town of Flood where Isobel has lived most of her life.

It is a

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace

Posted on 2015-10-20 at 5:23 by angelablackwell

Review of Envy of Angels: A Sin du Jour Affair by Matt Wallace (Tor.com, October 20, 2015)

Lena and Darren are chefs who have been friends since high school and now are roommates in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. After losing their jobs and wondering about their futures long enough for Darren to enter “manic cheese straw making mode”, they get called to a short term job at a catering company.

It is not exactly what they expected. The other employees don’t all appear to be human and the clientele

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Of Sorrow and Such by Angela Slatter

Posted on 2015-10-13 at 16:19 by angelablackwell

Review of Of Sorrow and Such by Angela Slatter (Tor.com, October 13, 2015)

This is a fantasy tale centered on the experiences of witches and female werecreatures in the small town called Edda’s Meadow. The setting is a traditional fantasy tech level and along with that comes the disdain of the men of the town who think they should be in charge and have the right to order the women in their lives about.

Patience is the town healer whose workaday life is completely disrupted by the arrival of a witch on

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The Exploding Spaceship Release Day Review of Empire Ascendant and an Interview with Kameron Hurley

Posted on 2015-10-06 at 18:44 by angelablackwell

An interview with Kameron Hurley about her new novel Empire Ascendant

Exploding Spaceship: The universe of the Worldbreaker Saga has multiple cultures and you even have parallel world versions of those cultures. As writers ourselves, it seems a daunting task to keep everything straight when you are writing. How do you keep track of the cultural differences between parallel worlds?

Kameron Hurley: The worlds are actually very different – it’s the characters who share faces. Which may sound like it’s even

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews The Last Witness by K.J. Parker

Posted on 2015-10-06 at 14:54 by angelablackwell

Review of The Last Witness by K.J. Parker (Tor.com October 6, 2015)

This is a first person point-of-view story about a man who can look into people’s heads and remove memories. He feels and remembers all the things he removes, and thus has many unpleasant experiences stored in his head, because those are the most common type of memory that people want to lose. Some people also want no one to know their secrets and they trust the memory-yanking man more than they do their associates. This type of work

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Windswept, The Dragon Engine and Hexomancy

Posted on 2015-10-05 at 16:27 by angelablackwell

Review of Windswept by Adam Rakunas (Angry Robot, September 1, 2015)

This story chronicles the adventures of Padma Mehta, a labor organizer on an alien planet which has a very restricted economy that depends upon the growth of a single plant species. The plant is sent off-world by the ton because it is used for energy/fuel for modern technology. Corporations have workers who are really slaves (sounds familiar, right?). Independent union workers, corporate slaves, crop failures, and bad liquor make for an

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