Book Log 17/2014 - Karen Traviss: View of a Remote Country

[jacey]

I really admire Karen Traviss' writing and so the opportunity to revisit some of her early short stories in this book was not to be missed. Thirteen short stories including some classics such as 'Suitable for the Orient' and 'Does he take Blood?', and my personal favourite, 'Evidence' which is the powerful tale of how an  archaeologist interprets/misinterprets the evidence in the find of an alien burial on a remote planet, with particularly devastating consequences. All the pieces have speculative fiction content, mostly science fiction, some of it social, some of it alt-historical, some of it alien/extra-terrestrial and (unusual for Traviss) a smattering of fantasy. All of it speculative in the widest sense of the term.

Highly recommended.

Comments

[calico-reaction.livejournal.com]

I've never read any of her short fiction, but I'm a big fan of her Wess'Har series, as well as the SW tie-ins I've read to date. :)

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

She doesn't write short fiction these days - no spare time, I guess - so these are a retrospective. I enjoyed them. I remembered 'Evidence' from a Milford I did with Karen way back. (Maybe 14 years ago.) It was one of those stories that stuck and I was delighted to see it included here.

[calico-reaction.livejournal.com]

Are these stories of hers collected somewhere in an ebook or something?

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Err, that's what this thread is about. It's a rteview of Karen's short story collection 'Karen Traviss: View of a Remote Country - available on Amazon as an ebook. (Possibly available elsewhere, too, but I bought the Kindle version.) You might find more at karentraviss.com

[calico-reaction.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's what I was looking for! I don't know why it didn't click that your blog title was the title of the book you were reviewing! Thank you. :)