Written by Mercedes Lackey, Steve Libbey, Cody Martin and Dennis Lee, Invasion: Book One of the Secret World Chronicle is the novelization of a series of podcasts. And “being included in the Humble eBook Bundle” is about the only justification I can give for reading it. For starters, I’m apparently not much for superheroes. In… Read more »
Posts Categorized: First Lines
First Lines: Pirate Cinema
Cory Doctorow’s Pirate Cinema—part of the Humble eBook Bundle—is part novel, part manifesto. While it’s a story about a boy running away from home, growing up and creating an identity and place for yourself in the world, it’s also a manifest about creativity, freedom and copyright reform. The story just worked for me. On both… Read more »
First Lines: Zoo City
In Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City, part of the Humble eBook Bundle, we follow Zinzi December, a girl with a knack for finding lost things, who has a sloth on her back—just like a proverbial monkey. You see, in her version of the world, when you mess up good, you get a spirit animal to remind… Read more »
First Lines: V for Vendetta
Before anything else, V for Vendetta was a comic. Or a graphic novel, if you insist. Just forget about the movie. Unless you’re, like, really into Natalie Portman. V for Vendetta is a lot of things. It’s an tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a bleak, post-nuclear-apocalyptic, fascist-police-state, dystopian nightmare. It is… Read more »
First Lines: Catch-up edition
The list of books I have to write about is only growing, so it’s time to play catch up. Before Twilight and The Vampire Diaries, before Blade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Interview with the Vampire, even before Dracula there was John Polidori. In his 1819 novel The Vampyre—conceived in the same time and place… Read more »