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नमस्ते!
你好!
안녕하세요!
Здравствуйте!
Aloha!
வணக்கம்!
Greetings from my AAPI kids, Kavi (with “Namaste” in Hindi), Ivy (”ni hao” in simplified Chinese), Paul (”Annyeong Haseyo” in Korean), Annika (”zdravstvuyte” in Russian), Kaile’a (”aloha” in Hawaiian) and Indi (”Vanakkam” in Tamil).
Gary Ruddell, cover illustration for Sugar Rain, by Paul Park (Avon, October 1990).
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(Book Review) A Princess of Roumania
Reprint from 2006 before I was on Goodreads.
Stopped by the City Center Sam Goody store. Corporate is closing it, so they had a big sale. I bought perhaps too many used CDs and DVDs. Now I will have to go all the way to the megamall if I want to shop them. By the by, after all the jokes I've seen on the Internet about Evanescense, I finally got to hear "My Immortal" and it wasn't half bad. Is the rest of their output also good, or are they one of those bands with one song that's completely atypical and is the only one I'll like? At Minicon, Tor Books gave out free copies of Paul Park's A Princess of Roumania. Since they went to the trouble and expense, I thought I should say a few words. Short version: It's one of those "relatively ordinary teenager discovers that she is, in fact, the magical princess of a fantasy empire" stories. Specifically, an alternate Earth's Roumania. The protagonist, Miranda Popescu, and her friends must undergo many dangers on the way to rescuing her homeland. It's a fair amount grittier than some of these stories, kind of like Twelve Kingdoms. I didn't much care for it. It's the first part of a trilogy, and really shows it, being all set-up. Most of the characters seemed dull to me (including Miranda), and the one I found most interesting is prevented from most interactions with the others early on. And honestly, the empire doesn't strike me as being worth saving. The magic may be Romanian tradition, it may not be, I haven't made a study of that. (And I never did get the Romanian language training I joined the Air Force for.) There's an implication that the "real world" may be a magical construct, but also evidence that it may not be; this seems unlikely to be resolved within the trilogy itself, since the connection is broken. I'm seeing a fairly strong Pullman influence, most notably in the emphasis on people's "spirit animals", which are an infallible guide to their character. There's a fairly high body count, don't get too attached to anyone except the protagonist, who kind of has to survive to the next book. The main antagonist in this volume has the unfortunate name of Ceausescu, which is a plot point, but like the spirit animals tends at times to feel like lazy characterization. I do like that she is a villain on a budget (indeed, impending poverty is her major motivation), but her remoteness from the protagonist's position means a swelling of the book so that we can see what's going on. A second antagonist, working at cross-purposes to the first, comes in about two-thirds of the way through. He's less original, but helps keep the plot going. It's hinted that there's a final antagonist working behind the scenes that we haven't seen yet, who will probably be revealed in the last volume. And the ending of this volume scatters the main players even further, meaning that Tourmaline will be even more fragmented in nature. 2006 before I was on Goodreads.
Meet Terry Bisson and Paul Park at July SF in SF
SF IN SF, in partnership with Tachyon Publications and the American Bookbinders Museum, welcomes the Hugo and Nebula Award winner Terry Bisson and James Tiptree, Theodore Sturgeon, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award nominated Paul Park.
Terry Bisson (Photo: Rosalie Winard) and Paul Park
Each author will read from a selection of their work, followed by Q&A with the audience, moderated by Cliff Winnig. Schmoozing with the authors and book signing follows the end of the discussion.
Sunday, July 19 Doors and cash bar open 6:00PM Event begins at 6:30 PM The American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina San Francisco, CA
$10 donation at the door (no one is turned away for lack of funds).
All donations benefit the American Bookbinders Museum
There will be an opportunity to have books signed at the end of the event. Books will be for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books, and attendees are welcome to bring books from home for signatures. There is no charge for autographs.
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Book review of No Traveller Returns by Paul Park and Mayflower II by Stephen Baxter
Book review of No Traveller Returns by Paul Park and Mayflower II by Stephen Baxter
This review of No Traveller Returns by Paul Park and Mayflower II by Stephen Baxter was written in 2004 for the British Science Fiction Association‘s magazine, Vector. Mayflower II, PS Publishing, 2004, Paperback, 88pp, £10.00, ISBN 1 904619 16 9 No Traveller Returns, PS Publishing, 2004, Paperback, 74pp, £10.00, ISBN 1 904619 02 9 Here are two refreshingly brief new novellas from PS Publishing,…
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i read ghosts doing the orange dance by paul park and did not get it at all ???? there were some cool elements but overall it was really confusing
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After the end of the world, there's still love. And revenge. Read "Ragnarok," by Paul Park.
