Search Results for "Sherwood Smith": 8 results
November, Sharyn, ed., Firebirds: I have a tentative thesis after reading Firebirds, an anthology edited by Sharyn November that's made up of original fantasy and science fiction and meant for a YA audience: one of the main failure modes of short fiction is didacticism....
Smith, Sherwood, and Dave Trowbridge: (01) The Phoenix in Flight: Space opera! To be precise, The Phoenix in Flight, book one of the Exordium series by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge. I'd seen this recommended in conjunction with the Mageworlds books—to be precise, on the web pages of the...
Smith, Sherwood, and Dave Trowbridge: (02) Ruler of Naught: Ruler of Naught is the second book in Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge's Exordium series, following The Phoenix in Flight. It's hard to know how much to say about the plots of these, especially since I know most of...
Smith, Sherwood, and Dave Trowbridge: (03) A Prison Unsought: I'm discovering that the other bad thing about the Exordium series being comprehensively out of print is that I don't have anyone to discuss spoilers with. The end of book three, A Prison Unsought, is so cool—a brilliantly done,...
Smith, Sherwood, and Dave Trowbridge: (04) The Rifter's Covenant: Yesterday, I finished book four of Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge's Exordium series, The Rifter's Covenant. It doesn't end on as a wham-bang note as the previous one, but I'm even more eager to find out what happens in...
Smith, Sherwood, and Dave Trowbridge: (05) The Thrones of Kronos: Last Friday night, when I finished reading The Thrones of Kronos, the last book of Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge's Exordium series, I had the following thoughts more-or-less in this order: Arrgh! You looked up "exordium," you should have...
Smith, Sherwood: Crown Duel: Too bleh to read, so will write about reading instead. This may be slightly scattered, but the more time passes, the worse it's going to get, because we're going way into the backlog now, all the way back to...
Smith, Sherwood: Wren to the Rescue; Wren's Quest; Wren's War: Sherwood Smith's Wren Trilogy (Wren to the Rescue, Wren's Quest, Wren's War) ought to be really good, but it isn't, and I can't put my finger on why, which is annoying. (And no, it's not just the cold pills,...