Comments on: MIND MELD: The Last Book That Blew Your Mind

By: Richard R.

Richard R. — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:44:14 +0000

Fantasy it's not, but the best book I've read in a couple of months was an old Berserker collection by Fred Saberhagen. Love his sf.

By: Graham Edwards

Graham Edwards — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:03:27 +0000

Lanark by Alasdair Gray. Challenging, cheeky, dark, defiantly difficult to classify unless you want to settle on 'magic realism' or 'metafiction'. Mind-blowing it is.

By: Bob Blough

Bob Blough — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:51:13 +0000

The Dervish House by Ian McDonald - definitely

By: Ryan Viergutz

Ryan Viergutz — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:16:21 +0000

Mike Carey's Thicker Than Water. It floored me in the end, after a load of twists. I feel like I've seen the weirdest, nastiest parts of London and Liverpool after reading it. Is it wrong that I want to visit London even more? The Salisburg estate is a place of my nightmares now. "Now it bleeds." Yes it bloody well bleeds! Yowch.

By: John Stevens

John Stevens — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:16:05 +0000

I just finished Paul Jessup's Open Your Eyes, and it did indeed blow me away. I would rate more highly than Mr. DeNardo did, although there were a few moments when I was confused about what was happening, and the ending is too straightforward and swift compared to the rest of the book. But it is a very well-done work.

Also, Kit Reed's new collection What Wolves Know was quite stunning. My review will be up here on SF Signal soon.

I am now going to go hunt down Point Omega.

By: Jamie Todd Rubin

Jamie Todd Rubin — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:29:17 +0000

Connie Willis' Blackout/All Clear. Hands down. There have been some phenomenal time-travel novels in our genre and until I read Connie's latest, Robert Silverberg's Up The Line was probably my favorite, but Connie outdid him. She wrote a compelling, human story combinging two things I love: time-travel and history, and she did so in such a way as to make it feel like you were right there in the Blitz in London, going through the terror that those British citizens experienced day-in-and-day-out, with the added terror of the historians who seemed to be trapped there for some reason. I often know that a book is something special when I get close to the end and wish the book was longer. Fortuntely, this book was so enormous it was published in two volumes and even then there wasn't a dull moment. It was an incredible effort, one that I think will be difficult to duplicate any time soon.

By: Andy W

Andy W — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:22:53 +0000

Death of Grass by John Christopher – I have been hunting for this book for years and finally managed to find a copy of it in my local library… last checked out in 1998… apparantly it had been sitting in a box that hadn’t been opened… anyway spotted, borrowed and read… and lived up to all the expectations I had been given.

Heroes by Joe Abercrombie – was given a copy of this to review by Amazon and really enjoyed the visceral pleasure of reading this novel and am planning to get hold of his other novels as this is the first I have read by him.

By: Paul (@princejvstin)

Paul (@princejvstin) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:38:25 +0000

I am going to go with a non genre choice:

Cleopatra, by Stacy Schiff. I was highly impressed by Schiff's biography of the most famous Queen in history, and although I know a fair bit on Ancient History, I learned a lot. I would not be surprised to see it nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. It's that good.

By: marco

marco — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:08:59 +0000

The last I've finished, actually: Diana Wynne Jones' Fire and Hemlock. It was my first book of hers, bought out of curiosity after the news of her death - I only expected to be mildly entertained, what I've found is one of the most beautiful, moving, intelligent books I've ever read.