{"id":3505,"date":"2012-08-23T15:31:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T15:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/08\/23\/books-received-82212-2\/"},"modified":"2012-08-23T15:31:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T15:31:22","slug":"books-received-82212-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/08\/23\/books-received-82212-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Books received 8\/22\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n

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Some Kind of Fairy Tale<\/span><\/a>
\nby Graham Joyce<\/span><\/p>\n

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Acclaimed author Graham Joyce\u2019s mesmerizing new novel centers around the disappearance of a young girl from a small town in the heart of England. Her sudden return twenty years later, and the mind-bending tale of where she\u2019s been, will challenge our very perception of truth.<\/p>\n

For twenty years after Tara Martin disappeared from her small English town, her parents and her brother, Peter, have lived in denial of the grim fact that she was gone for good. And then suddenly, on Christmas Day, the doorbell rings at her parents\u2019 home and there, disheveled and slightly peculiar looking, Tara stands. It\u2019s a miracle, but alarm bells are ringing for Peter. Tara\u2019s story just does not add up. And, incredibly, she barely looks a day older than when she vanished.<\/p>\n

Award-winning author Graham Joyce is a master of exploring new realms of understanding that exist between dreams and reality, between the known and unknown. Some Kind of Fairy Tale<\/span> is a unique journey every bit as magical as its title implies, and as real and unsentimental as the world around us.<\/p>\n

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The Age of Miracles<\/span><\/a>
\nby Karen Thompson Walker<\/span><\/p>\n

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With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker\u2019s The Age of Miracles<\/span> is a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt still amazes me how little we really knew… . Maybe everything that happened to me and my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It\u2019s possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much.\u201d<\/p>\n

On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal disasters of everyday life\u2014the fissures in her parents\u2019 marriage, the loss of old friends, the hopeful anguish of first love, the bizarre behavior of her grandfather who, convinced of a government conspiracy, spends his days obsessively cataloging his possessions. As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues.<\/p>\n

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Yoko Tsuno Vol. 7: The Curious Trio<\/span><\/a>
\nby Roger Leloup<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vic and Pol are working for a television network when, one evening, they meet a young Japanese electronics engineer under very unusual circumstances. A friendship is soon struck up, a project drafted, and the newly formed trio is on its way to investigate an underground river. But they find a lot more than they bargained for and become part of a story that began millions of light years away, changing their lives forever.<\/p>\n

I recently interviewed Jerome Saincantin<\/a>, who translated this book.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Apollo\u2019s Outcasts<\/span><\/a>
\nby Allen Steele
\nCover by Paul Young<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein\u2019s juvenile classics, crafted with a modern sensibility<\/p>\n

Jamey Barlowe has been crippled since childhood, the result of being born on the Moon. He lives his life in a wheelchair, only truly free when he is in the water. But then Jamey\u2019s father sends him, along with five other kids, back to the Moon to escape a political coup d\u2019etat that has occurred overnight in the United States. Moreover, one of the other five refugees is more than she appears. <\/p>\n

Their destination is the mining colony, Apollo. Jamey will have to learn a whole new way to live, one that entails walking for the first time in his life. It won\u2019t be easy and it won\u2019t be safe. But Jamey is determined to make it as a member of Lunar Search and Rescue, also known as the Rangers. This job is always risky but could be even more dangerous if the new US president makes good on her threat to launch a military invasion. Soon Jamey is front and center in a political and military struggle stretching from the Earth to the Moon.<\/p>\n

Books received 8\/22\/12<\/a> was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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