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Cargando... Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014por Adam Roberts
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An award winning author in his own right, Adam Roberts makes no concessions when appraising the work of others. His reviews are honest, forthright, and never timid. Following the success of Sibilant Fricative (Steel Quill Books, 2014), Adam now takes on the daunting task of providing an overview of the science fiction and fantasy produced during 2014. As ever, he pulls no punches, and Rave and Let Die features nearly 100 reviews, packed with the sort of insight, wit, and honesty that characterised the first volume. One thing the author never loses sight of is the need to entertain. What the Critics have said of Sibilant Fricative: "Sibilant Fricative is undoubtedly one of the finest collections of essays that genre criticism has ever produced." - Jonathan McCalmont, BSFA Vector magazine ..".the essay on the "Two Hobbits" is worth the entry ticket alone, and there is so much more entertainment within... Erudite, entertaining, intelligent collection of essays and reviews." - The Bristol Book Blog "Adam Roberts makes everything wonderful. If he wrote non-fiction about drying paint, I would still be the first in line to read it." - Jared Shurin of Pornokitsch. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This was a book I picked up on the basis that it was likely to be on the BSFA long list (as indeed it is), and also because the bulk of it consists of Roberts' reviews of sf and fantasy books published in 2014, many of which I also read for the Arthur C. Clarke Award (Roberts was also a juror for two of the Kitschies' awards). We agree more often than I had expected, but where Roberts' opinion differs from mine it is always entertainingly so.
The reviews, of course, cannot be separated from the wider context. As Roberts says,
"...to cast a cold eye over the landscape of SF and Fantasy as it appeared in 2014 is surely to be struck by how polarised, how ideologically and aesthetically divided it has grown."
He goes on to say many interesting things about awards, and the landscape of the genre, and though (of course) I completely disagree with his views on the Hugos, it's a well-presented argument. (