Ninth City Burning J. Patrick Black Ace Release Date: September 6, 2016 ISBN 978-1-1019-9144-2 This is our future – one that is unrecognizable. That it is our future is inconsequential. It’s not clear why some people are fontani and most others are not. What is clear is that those who […]
Uprooted Naomi Novik Del Rey First Edition: May 19, 2015 ISBN 978-0-8041-7904-1 Agnieszka is a girl who lives in a quiet village in a green valley. She is sweet natured, and indistinguishable from the other children save for the fact that she always seems to be disheveled and dirty, constantly […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.