Little Toy Robot

Hosts, by F. Paul Wilson
The Google Story, by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed
The Keep, by F. Paul Wilson
Heroes Die, by Matthew Woodring Stover
Demon Download, by Jack Yeovil

Not a big (or exciting) month of reading for me. I spent the first two weeks in Detroit for work, so I scraped by reading an installment of F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack series along with a nonfiction history of Google (to keep my foot in the real world). The Wilson book was a fast, entertaining read, and the Google book was good but not as philosophical or interesting as John Battelle’s The Search.

The Keep is an earlier Wilson novel, a horror thriller that was surprisingly well written and completely different in style and tone than the Repairman Jack books.

Heroes Die and Demon Download were end-of-the-year treats for me. Heroes Die was actually very good, a dense fantasy story with a science fictional premise and a gritty, realistic style that sort of anticipates the writing of Richard K. Morgan (though isn’t as brilliant). As for Demon Download - Jack Yeovil is a pseudonym of Kim Newman, whose writing I enjoy, so I picked this up in northern Alabama during the “holidays” and scarfed it down like candy.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006 at 10:23 pm and is filed under books.