This was always my favorite of the Dragonriders series when I was younger (despite the badness of the cover, but that's another rant). I loved watching Pern, as I knew it, come together out into a fantasy story out of this science fiction. In retrospect. I feel that the characters have a little more depth, are a bit more developed and work just a bit more than usual. And glimpsing this behind-the-scenes of Pern is just cool.
It held up pretty well, all things considered.

This series remains engaging and an enjoyable way to kill time. I'm beginning to remember why I eventually got bored with it, however.
Still, that's not the fault of this book in particular. Again, this is a creditable addition to the stories of the Pernese and their dragons, and, more importantly, the world they inhabit. There are, as usual, a few characters who achieve three dimensionality, but the book is not harmed by being mostly a vehicle for an exciting landscape and the intersection of fantasy and sci-fi.

Another nice addition to the backstory of Pern. I seem to really like the stories that explain the transitions from the colonists to the Pern of the Ninth Pass. Not much to say that has not been said before - the world she created is great and the characters only blur together a little.

I'm rereading this series (well, bits of it. The bits of it I feel like rereading, at any rate. They're about as absorbing and fun as I remember, though I keep trying to compare them to Naomi Novik's Dragon books.
Definitely a fun reread and a good break for some lighter fare (which seems to be the theme of this month)

This book took me several weeks to finally work my way through; not because it wasn't interesting, but because it continually required more effort than I expected. This might sound odd, but I really wasn't expecting to think as hard as I did while reading this. Mieville has written what I consider to be the perfect mix of Urban Fantasy and Cyberpunk and it took me a little while to find my way around his world, but in the end it was worth it. His gift, as a storyteller, is that he has such compassion and understanding for his characters that I empathized with every single creatures from whose perspective Perdido Street Station was told.

What a wonderfully terrifying book. The story took me a while to get into, although that was partially my own transition to somewhere where I could hear the main character's voice properly.
It was daring of Moon to take on the challenge of writing from the perspective of a high functioning autist and equally daring for her to write about the question of curing autism. To both in one novel, and do it well, is astounding. Yet she does it.
The way she writes Lou feels right, a glimpse into how someone who thinks differently than I do thinks.
And she asks all the right questions and provides very few easy answers. Questions of what it means to be normal and what it means to be happy lie somewhere around the center of the novel and Moon does us, and her characters, the courtesy of not-answering them.
This is a book that will make you think, in all the right ways.