Book Review: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Another strong book from the Hugo Awards list. The concept: In the distant future, AIs run space stations and ships. They also get their grimy little electronic mitts into people by way of implants. The Radch are essentially a human empire, run by the Lord of the Radch. She has…

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Book Review: Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

Beautifully written. Bas-Lag is a well-crafted, steam punk world full of fantasy science and fantastic species. I would not want to live there.  Mieville put together a wonderful story that is, in his words, “new weird.” This book won a Hugo Award and it was well deserved. I listened to…

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Extend or Delete: Some Thoughts on Revisions

Today, during an interview, I was asked to read from SPARK. I hadn’t revisited the text for a while other than to fact-check myself. As I read, I found myself distracted by thinking simultaneously about how I’d rephrase a sentence or two if I were writing/revising the text now. That’s…

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