Newton's Wake : A Space Opera, The Bloody Red Baron

[samvara]

Newton's Wake : A Space Opera by Ken MacLeod. I suspect this was a really good book and I'm going to go back and re-read it after I pry it back out of cricketk who also had reason to believe it was a good book. Lots of very cool ideas including a combat archeology team and AI consciousness storing.

The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman. A dark alternate history where Van Helsing lost and vampires populate the world. It desperately needs an editor to weed out embarrassing typos but the amusement value of seeing all those famous names fighting WWI is high. Dracula (of course) is helping the Germans, Mata Hari has mesmerising vampiric powers and Edgar Poe has dropped his middle name and been whisked off to write the biography of the Red Baron.

Am going to switch to re-reading old favourites until I'm less tired and stressed.

Comments

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

*cuddles and purrryness* because i like to share, and since i've also been distressingly stressed, i'm thinking of you :)

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

I love Ken MacLeod, haven't read that one yet. His Star Fraction loose tatralogy is good.

The Bloody Red Baron is the sequel to Anno Dracula (similar concept, set in Victorian era). There is apparently a third, as well, set in the 1960s fashion set.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Yeah I will have to look up his other books - that was good fun.

I was inspired to read Bloody Red Baron by Anno Dracula - cricketk seems to have various of his stuff.