Aspects

It starts with a duel and then rushes on to a tense parliamentary vote about the regulation of magic -- in a fantasy world as detailed and fully realised as anything in the field. If Ford could have finished this it would be a masterpiece. Even as it is, it's so very worth reading.......more

I received an advance copy courtesy of NetGalley. This is a book unlike any other I've read: it is being published in unfinished form, as the author died in 2006. An introduction to the work is written by Neil Gaiman. I felt leery as I began to read--how rough was this book? Would the lack of an endi......more

Since 2000, I've been grumpy with Dave Eggers because I hate the title A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (and yes, I know it's ironic). I was about 2/3 of the way through Aspects, the late great John M. ("Mike") Ford's unfinished masterwork, when I realized that this book is, in fact, a hear......more

This is a hard book to review because of the fact that the author has been dead for sixteen years (he passed in 2006). The book was unfinished at the time of his death, and has been published in its incomplete form due to the almost singlehanded efforts of a magazine writer, as told here. (And do st......more

3.5 stars, Metaphorosis Reviews Summary The Coron Varic is a distant ruler - spending all his time in the capital, Lystourel, working on revisions of the Constitution rather than in his cold home province. A master of Parliamentary procedure and intrigue, he nonetheless finds time to visit Strange H......more