by Site Owner | Oct 20, 2011 | From the Editor
Whew! Wordstock 2011 has come and gone. We have a huge pile of books and materials, and hundreds of new friends. We, the editors of Portland Book Review, would like to thank everybody who came to our booth Saturday and Sunday October 8th and 9th. You made us feel...
by Site Owner | Oct 19, 2011 | Science Fiction
Edited by Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant Candlewick Press, $22.99, 420 pages One of the most intriguing sub-genres of science fiction to emerge in the last 10-15 years has been Steampunk, the retro-technical futurism of clockwork automata and impossible science. It’s...
by Site Owner | Oct 12, 2011 | Science Fiction, Young Adult
by Ian McDonald Pyr, $16.95, 274 pages Ian McDonald’s Planesrunner is the first in what I hope is a very long series of young adult science fiction novels. Our hero, the aforementioned “planesrunner” is Everett Singh, the teenage son of a genius quantum physicist....
by Site Owner | Sep 28, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
by Amor Towles Viking, $26.95, 335 pages Rules of Civility is set during a single year, an eventful 1938. Kate/Katherine/Katie, her persona changes as she ebbs or flows within high society, is a working class girl doing a passable job of making ends meet as a...
