Worlds of Paul Jessup

Reviews of my work and reviews I’ve written of other people’s work.

“The best way I can describe Glass Coffin Girls? Like Cinderella walking over the shards of her own glass slipper, broken…the blood looks positively gorgeous against the crystalware, don’t you think?”
From- My Fluttering Heart Book Reviews

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And calls it groundbreaking, and compares me to some awesome powerful writers.  Check it out:
http://www.analogsf.com/0911/reflib.shtml
And make sure you grab a copy of the book here-
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And see what all the hubub is about

Damn.
http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/08/the_new_space_o.shtml

There are some Genre books that are perfect.  Absolutely pitch perfect.  Like listening to Chopin, it is the most beautiful thing in the world to read the book, experience the book.  By absorbing this work into your memories, you can realize then that you are absorbing something immaculate, something transubstatiative, something that causes a metousiosis.
Delany’s [...]

One thing I like about the Earthsea books is that each one is completely different than the last.  The first and the third novels bear some resemblance to each other (and are, I think, the weakest of the books), but the others are all very very unique.  Tombs of Atuan is a character study, Tehanu [...]

Is absolutely AMAZING.  Funny, witty, it works in so many levels.  And the real star of this whole thing is Neil Patrick Harris as Doctor Horrible.  He’s just brilliant.  The acting is subtle, and amazing. Lots of character poured through such little space, so little words.  If you get a chance to see it, do.  [...]

And all I can say is yes.  Yes, yes, yes, hell yes.  This is what science fiction should be.  This is amazing, great, character driven mystery sort of thing.  It is so different from anything else I’ve ever read, so unique, so cool, so surreal.  This is abosulutely fantastic.

Only read a handful of stories from the issue of EV, but I love it so far.  Lisa Snelling’s Poppets grace a full cover color, and I must admit, I really like the paper-back book feel to this.  It reminds me more of PostScripts magazine than LCRW, and feels more like a professional production than [...]

This book is beautiful. I love getting collector’s editions of books, they remind me what treasures books can be.  This has a wonderful dust jacket, a really cool looking sign in sheet, excellent layout and design and printed on quality paper that will last generations.  Collectors editions of books really enforce the idea of book [...]