![]() ![]() A multilayered novel describing a space-station in a hollowed-out asteroid, built by a long-gone alien race who had left behind hundreds of space ships which humanity was learning to operate through trial and error, the novel also scooped the Locus, Nebula and John W Campbell awards and is considered a major milestone in SF writing today. He will perhaps be best remembered for his 1977 novel Gateway, which won the Hugo Award the following year. From his first published work in 1937, a poem entitled "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", printed in Amazing Stories magazine under the pseudonymous byline Elton Andrews, Pohl turned out an astonishingly huge body of work. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I found myself questioning why some stories were there as they added unnecessary bulk. Some of the staff I really liked, others not so much. It’s very much a character-driven story, but with so many of them, I’d almost venture to call it character soup. ![]() This is a book with many storylines and many characters, but not much plot focus. The hotel owner, Xavier, tasks Lizbet with fully staffing the hotel, training, and everything else that comes with hotel management.Īs we get to know the many different staff, we learn about their drama as they struggle not only personally but also with trying to get along with their teammates. This is no ordinary hotel though as legend has it, it’s haunted! When her life-long boyfriend screws up their relationship, Lizbet takes on the challenge of running an old abandoned hotel that has been recently renovated by a billionaire. Release Date: JThank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the Advance Review Copy. ![]() ![]() ![]() The snake swallows his own tail and is never satiated. To solve the mystery, Claire uses clues she finds on the street or on billboards, in dreams, or from I Ching hexagrams that are like none I’ve ever read.: ‘That’s where knowledge lives before somebody hunts it, kills it and mounts it in a book.’” “ ‘Never be afraid to learn from the ether,’ Constance told me. Claire also had the chance to work with Constance Darling, on the Silette’s finest students, until Constance was murdered in New Orleans. ![]() It seems that the book often comes to future detectives in unusual ways. ![]() The book came to Claire in an unusual way when she was a child. Vic’s nephew, Leon, just wants closure.Ĭlaire learned the art of detection from a book written by the eccentric Frenchman Jacques Silette. Victor Willing was probably the only uncorrupted DA in the entire parish, but there still is a hint of possible foul play. He just vanished, like so many others, but he was an assistant district attorney with money and connections. She charges a lot of money and she gets results, but her clients usually end up hating her – and that’s not at all surprising.Ĭlaire has come back to New Orleans, a city she knew well, two years after Hurricane Katrina, to find out what happened to her client’s uncle, who disappeared during the storm. Perhaps, like Claire DeWitt’s introduction to detection, it was meant to be.Ĭlaire DeWitt is nearly forty, and the best detective in the world. I hadn’t read anything by Sara Gran until I picked up Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead out of the 50% off bin. ![]() |