"Starts off by making you think that nothing is what it seems, and ends up by being...well, exactly what it does seem, with little of the edgy, satirical resonance normally characteristic of Reed's work."
Speculative near-future redemption puzzler from Reed (The Baby Merchant, 2006, etc.).
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"The mostly dialogue-driven plot should appeal to early middle-school readers and could serve as a bridge to the more sophisticated yet similarly themed works of Scott Westerfeld, M.T. Anderson, Chris Wooding and the like. (Fantasy. 10-14)"
Trapped in a bizarre, dystopian Mall of America-like complex complete with a spooky theme park, plucky teen heroine Jules Devereaux finds she must join a team of kooky, unlikely juvenile orphan heroes called the Castertown Crazies to save the mall and the town from an evil overlord.
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"A generally engaging tale that demonstrates—without preaching—the pitfalls of virtual romance in a place where no one can hurt you and everybody turns out to be somebody."
The always original Reed (Seven for the Apocalypse, 1999, etc.) perceptively probes that point where reality and the virtual converge as a young married professional woman finds herself more alive and in love when she meets her anonymous lover online each night.
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"Altogether, interesting work, from one of the most inventive and amusing writers working in the genre."
paper 0-8915-6382-X This gathering of the popular SF writer's recent short fiction includes seven stories and her (originally separately published) 1994 novella "Little Sisters of the Apocalypse"—an agreeably weird fable of feminist empowerment ingeniously yoked to a plaintive account of the slow dying of the narrator's (and, it becomes clear, the author's) mother.
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"Terrific takes on time's rush, with a touch of that personal enlightenment offered to a certain generation of moviegoers by The Big Chill—but less glib."
Reedian thoughts about life, marriage, middle age, and children when three couples, their kids, and a close friend spend the summer lumped together in a New England farmhouse.
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"Though it seems intended as a bonk-you-over-the-head novel of ideas, it ends simply as a touching tribute to the author's mother, a bittersweet space-age tale on the nature of women and loss."
From Reed (Thief of Lives, 1992, etc.) a story on two levels- -one far from real life, and one (we can only assume) directly connected to the author's heart.
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"Reed is a clean, clear stylist, everywhere expert and attractive."
Fifteen stories by the author of 1991's psychological thriller Gone (written as Kit Craig and soon to be seen as a TV melodrama).
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