Posts tagged: michael-swanwick

Locke Lamora meets Dostoevsky after the Apocalypse -- Review: Dancing with Bears

Posted on 2015-07-29 at 14:33 by Sam

It's a shame there are so few reviews of this 2012 audiobook of this 2011 novel, as this really was pretty fantastic. It's like: Scott Lynch's Locke Lamora meets Dostoevsky in the post-apocalypse. And as always Rudnicki is great; in this one he gets to show off a range of Russian accents, cyber wolves, giants, genetically engineered bear-men and Neanderthals, and a fascinating, hilarious pair of con artists in

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Release Week: TC McCarthy's Exogene, Michael Swanwick's Dancing with Bears, Sergey and Marina Dyachenko's The Scar, and Elizabeth Hand's Available Dark

Posted on 2012-02-29 at 03:49 by Sam

February goes out with quite a splash, with T. C. McCarthy’s Exogene: The Subterrene Trilogy, Book 2, Michael Swanwick’s Dancing with Bears: A Darger and Surplus Novel, Sergey and Marina Dyachenko’s The Scar, and Elizabeth Hand’s Available Dark.

EXOGENE: Read by Bahni Turpin for Blackstone Audio and released concurrently with the mass market and e-book from Orbit, Exogene sets up as a much more traditional military sf novel than did the author’s debut, 2011’s Germline. Germline was read by Donald Corren, an

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged available-dark, dancing-with-bears, elizabeth-hand, exogene, michael-swanwick, release week, review, sergey-dyanchenko, tc mccarthy, the-scar