Yatterings

The Arthur C Clarke shortlist tend to bring some controversy and this year is no different.
The shortlist:
The Red Men
Matthew de Abaitua – Snow Books
The H-Bomb Girl
Stephen Baxter – Faber & Faber
The Carhullan Army
Sarah Hall – Faber & Faber
The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall – Canongate
The Execution Channel
Ken MacLeod – Orbit
Black Man
Richard Morgan – Gollancz
John Jarrold really [...]

Neil Gaiman’s Odd and the Frost Giants (Amazon) is a fine novella published for the World Book Day and is a delightful little read though perhaps not his best children’s novella.
Odd is a strange child, and when his father is dies rescuing a pony, flees into the forest where he is woken up by some [...]