His entry begins:
I'm reading a lot this year, because I'm judging a couple of awards, and my Table of Judgment is heaped high with copies of things to consider (and my Tablet of Judgment is likewise full of digital books). Just at the moment I'm finishing up Paul Tremblay's collection Growing Things, a very strong book of horror (or at least dark and weird) stories by one of my favorite writers of scary things. The stories are pleasantly varied, from the surreal and creepy to the grounded and poignant to the...[read on]About The Forbidden Stars, from the publisher:
The ancient alien gods are waking up, and there’s only one spaceship crew ready to stop them, in this dazzling space operaVisit Tim Pratt's website.sequel to The Wrong Stars and The Dreaming Stars.
Aliens known as the Liars gave humanity access to the stars through twenty-nine wormholes. They didn’t mention that other aliens, the ancient, tyrannical – but thankfully sleeping – Axiom occupied all the other systems. When the twenty-ninth fell silent, humanity chalked it up to radical separatists and moved on. But now, on board the White Raven, Captain Callie and her crew of Axiom-hunters receive word that the twenty-ninth colony may have met a very different fate. With their bridge generator they skip past the wormhole, and discover another Axiom project, fully awake, and poised to pour through the wormhole gate into all the worlds of humanity…
Writers Read: Tim Pratt.
--Marshal Zeringue
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