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%T The Red Tape War
%A Jack L. Chalker
%A Mike Resnick
%A George Alec Effinger
%I TOR
%D December 1991
%O paperback, US$
%P 244
%G ISBN 0-812-51282-0
What happens when three accomplished SF authors sit down to write the genre
equivalent of Naked Came The Stranger? Read this and find out.
The three have no end of fun spoofing themselves, each other, and every SF
cliche in sight. The result is riotous, extremely silly, and lots of fun.
%T Wild Magic
%A Jo Clayton
%I DAW
%D December 1991
%O paperback, US$4.99
%P 364
%G 0-88677-496-9
Jo Clayton's well-known skills with dialect shine through in "Wild
Magic", a tale about a society caught in a battle between a powerful
young goddess and a declining smith-god. As usual with Clayton's
fiction, it is filled with dramatic imagery and vivid confrontations.
Unfortunately, unlike her best work, it relies a little too strongly
on the reader's ability to discern the nature of the society in which
the story is set from context and poetic clues. Despite this flaw,
the book is still a good read. [CCO]
%T Dragon Season
%A Michael Cassutt
%I TOR
%D December 1991
%O paperback, 247 pp, US$4.99
%G 0-182-50392-9
In "Dragon Season," Michael Cassutt gives us a clever, superficial,
yet charming fantasy about an Air Force lieutenant who falls in love
with a young woman from a nearby alternate universe where the Creator
exists in flesh and blood and technology is indistinguishable from
prayer. Cassutt writes well enough to suggest that he may produce
more meaty works after he tires of playing with clever plot gimmicks
such as those in this book. [CCO]
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