BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: I’m much more a science fiction than a fantasy reader, but on John Scalzi’s recommendation I read Naomi Kritzer’s Freedom’s Gate and liked it very much. That led me to order the sequel, Freedom’s Apprentice, which kept me up later than I meant to stay up last night. Pretty good stuff. But then, it was recommended by Scalzi, whose recommendations are usually pretty good.

Kritzer has a blog, too.