Dance Family: In War Times: An Alternate Universe Novel of a Different Present (Paperback)

from EndsWell

This alternative history was an interesting read, although it did drag at times. If you enjoy World War II literature (and I am on a WWII kick for sure), with a little bit of sci-fi thrown in, then pick this one up. I may look at Goonan's Nanotech Quartet in the future.

from stubbyfingers

I first looked at this book because I had read in some forums that people think it could win this year's Hugo Award. The description on Amazon was intriguing and I was excited to read the book. But it was definitely a let down. This is a story about a machine that modifies human DNA to affect how...

from cdogzilla

Explores themes around progress, the applying ethics to technological development, growing more resistant to change with age, altruism, and dealing with loss in some intriguing ways as characters live and die and live again by working on a technological macguffin across multiple timestreams. The ...

from dukedom_enough

The "Times" of Kathleen Ann Goonan's novel refers to at least three meanings of "times" - historical eras, the everyday time in which our lives are lived, and musical time signatures, as fractured and complicated by modern jazz. OK, at least four meanings - time as a physical dimension which may ...

from kd9

I nominate and vote on the Hugo awards. I even moderate panels at Baycon and Loscon about Hugo Nominees. This is the first book of 2007 that is definitely on my Hugo nominating ballot for next year. It starts off as a simple elegiac report of one youth's experiences in World War II. Yes, he has a...