personal original november literary

books:

23 reviews
Molly Glass

Mariner Books, 2001

Thrilling, earthy.
This story is sheer joy on so many levels. The protagonist, Charlotte, is a 35 yr old educated and independent widow with 5 sons, living in the pioneer outbacks in the Washington/Oregon area 100 years ago. She's managed to support her family writing "minor" romantic novels. When her housekeeper's little grandaughter disappears while under the care of the father at work in a logging camp deep deep ...

The Dazzle of Day

22 reviews
Molly Gloss

Tor Books, 1998

An excellent read . . engrossing
I must enter a review to address the comments of other reviewers. First, I don't believe this novel was ever intended to be "typical SF". Molly Gloss writes about deeply rooted issues having to do with relationships and people's lives. Dazzle of Day turned out to be a most entertaining story because she explores the interaction of people in the face of crisis and challenge and she set it in a ...

The Hearts of Horses

25 reviews
Molly Gloss

Houghton Mifflin, 2007

Outstanding character-driven novel
When I was a kid I read every horse story in print and I remember especially Black Beauty (of course) and the books of Will James. Hearts of Horses is the same kind of book. The language is as simple as a pair of leather chaps, and the lead character of Martha is as quiet and soft-spoken, determined and brave, as any character Jimmy Stewart ever played--and almost as tall. It's a Western, but not ...

The Jump-Off Creek

20 reviews
Molly Gloss

Mariner Books, 2005

It's all "between the lines," in the silences ...
I probably shouldn't be reading Molly Gloss. I'm a guy, after all. But maybe, at 64, some of the nastiness of being a guy has finally worn off. Because I love the way this woman writes. The Hearts of Horses hooked me, Wild Life wowed me, and now, this earlier absolute gem of a novel just blew me away. How does she do this thing where the essence of the story lies in what is not said? Lydia ...

ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 14, number 1 - January Jan 1990: Bwana; Warstory; The Caress; Personal ...

1 review
Gardner (editor) (Mike Resnick; Gregory Benford; Greg Egan; Molly Gloss; John M. Ford; Kathe Koja; Tom Purdom) Dozois

Davis Publications, 1990

Not Free SF Reader
Not much else of interest in this mag, apart from the stories - book mentions include Sterling's Crystal Express. Also a short 'neat article' stuff where Orson Scott Card thinks Clive Barker was a dead end. Pretty amusing, having just read 'The New Weird' anthology. A pretty ordinary issue overall, saved a bit by Egan, and a rather creepy drawing for that story, too. ASIMOVS152 : The ...