William Sanders (1)Recensioni

And a half star. Marked down for piles of dismembered bodies and marked up for grandfather and an entertaining story. Enjoyed it a lot.

If a novel mentions the highway in front of your house and you still want to put it down, please do so.

Uma excelente história em que Shakespeare é capturado por uma tribo de índios onde fica retido e acaba por escrever e encenar com os índios o seu Macbeth.

This is a hilarious collection of postcolonial indigenous North American science fiction/fantasy written with grit,wit,and poignancy. Any fan of speculative short stories should find this!

Lots of good stuff here, including a magical erotic fantasy which is hot and hilarious.

This book is full of really authentic Native American flavors. For those who've enjoyed Tony Hillerman, it's got even more authentic background, in an area with more collision of tribes and more tension with whites. Definitely worth reading, though not quite as all-the-way screaming hilarious as some of his others.

Hilarious! The SF creaks, but the action and motorcycling are good.

Although the narrator, the Irish con-artist Finn, is a wonderfully engaging character, its his Jewish sidekick Yusuf that really stands out. While he IS a caricature of long-suffering 'Hollywood' Jews, his intelligence and quick wit are readily evident, as are his morals, which set him apart from Finn, who is almost totally amoral.
As for the setting - wow. I've read several alternate history novels where the New World is colonized by the Islamic kingdoms and the Chinese, but this is definitely the most inventive and entertaining, much more so than the staggeringly boring 'Years of Rice and Salt'.

This book is a comedy with a heart - the gags fly fast and furious, from a mule named Francis to a satire of an infamous John Wayne character to sly references of Oliver Cromwell as an inveterate gambler, but underlying it all is a great story that deals with complex issues like the slave and drug trade, war and conquest, and friendship and love. 'Journey to Fusang' is well worth buying... I only wish Sanders would write a sequel.

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