It's a good book, as they all are, but the portrayal of Timbuktu as a center of culture, learning, commerce and communication is particularly vivid, and directly challenges any perception of pre-colonisation Africa as somehow backward and savage. On the other hand the violence and illness endured by the protagonist and his friends are pretty graphically portrayed as well, so there is a certain squick factor. Still, very much recommended.
Scales of Gold, by Dorothy Dunnett
It's a good book, as they all are, but the portrayal of Timbuktu as a center of culture, learning, commerce and communication is particularly vivid, and directly challenges any perception of pre-colonisation Africa as somehow backward and savage. On the other hand the violence and illness endured by the protagonist and his friends are pretty graphically portrayed as well, so there is a certain squick factor. Still, very much recommended.
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Brain Fetish, by Kinga Korska
Second frame of third page: Second frame of third section I picked up this graphic novel at Octocon. It's a nice little…
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What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Fantasy and SF, by Jo Walton
Second paragraph of third chapter ( A Deepness in the Sky: the Tragical History of Pham Nuwen): In A Fire Upon the Deep we learn early on that our…
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Sex at Dawn, by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethà
Second paragraph of third chapter: True, some of us manage to rise above this aspect of our nature (or to sink below it). But these preconscious…
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