A collection of short stories, dealing with various apocalypses. (Wow, that's a weird word to say/type!)Some were actual world ending apocalypses, some just regional apocalypses, some not even what I would necessarily call an apocalypse.All of the stories were well written, McHugh using well tu...
Dans le Maroc du milieu du 22eme siécle, Hariba est une domestique, qui a été "jessed". C'èst a dire que son cerveau a été modifié pour qu'elle soit intrinsèquement loyale à son propriétaire (il s'agit d'indenture volontaire à la Jack Vance, même si la aussi, le coût de racheter son contrat est s...
***WARNING*** This is a reading journal rather than a review, so it will be riddled with unmarked spoilers. You have been warned. China Mountain -- Zhang:- So far, Zhang is nothing like I expected, neither the character nor the book. I expected a cyber-punky action thriller, and it may still beco...
War veteran David Dai has come to ocean-bottom Caribe to work as bodyguard to Mayla Ling, banker and scion to the undersea city's old-money set. But as Mayla negotiates the biggest deal of her life, she draws the attention of terrorists who threaten to plunge her, and David, back into the nightma...
The man sitting in the prow of the skiff was a short, brown-haired Englishman. He was smiling in a self-deprecating way. He was hunched forward, and he looked a little gray. I thought he was scared but trying not to make a big deal out of it. I gathered he had been sick, although he didn’t say so...