Torque Control (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... Cashore (with much discussion) Paul McAuley on arbitrary divisions , and on the film of The Road Jonathan McCalmont and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro on Ark by Stephen Baxter ; Adam Roberts’ take here Catching up on Clute: Excessive Candour columns on The Windup Girl and on The Complete Stories of JG Ballard (the comments on the latter are … numerous); and at Strange Horizons, a review of The...
Waiting For My Aineko (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
This is the fourteenth review I've written this year, and the twelfth to be published. I encourage anyone who enjoys grand-scale hard SF with a mild but distinct existentialist bouquet to seek out Baxter's novels FLOOD and ARK. ARK is the better of the two. My review appears with Jonathan McCalmont's take on the same novel, meaning you get two different viewpoints for the price of one...
Strange Horizons Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Jonathan McCalmont: Is Baxter to be praised for his seemingly ever-increasing control over an array of themes and issues that few other authors bother to tackle? Or is he to be condemned for writing and re-writing the same kind of book over and over again? Alvaro Zinos-Amaro: It travels much farther than its predecessor. It takes even bigger risks, and the emotional pay-off is consequently...
