teenhood

While I liked to a large extent Ms. Lowachee's loose trilogy Warchild, Burndive, Cagebird - I actually liked the writing a lot and the universe of the series was intriguing but the main characters were somewhat annoying and I generally dislike teen boys as heroes especially in sf, less in fantasy since in medieval times there was no such thing as "teenhood" and a 15-16 year old could be as mature as a 30 year old today, but having modern teens as heroes is like having children as heroes in many ways - I sort of forgot to follow her writing until I saw this somewhere in the links above and it seemed interesting, while for once the none of the main characters seems to be a modern male teenager...

Liviu's Anticipated 2010 Releases Part 2 Liviu 2009

While I liked to a large extent Ms. Lowachee's loose trilogy Warchild, Burndive, Cagebird - I actually liked the writing a lot and the universe of the series was intriguing but the main characters were somewhat annoying and I generally dislike teen boys as heroes especially in sf, less in fantasy since in medieval times there was no such thing as "teenhood" and a 15-16 year old could be as mature as a 30 year old today, but having modern teens as heroes is like having children as heroes in many ways - I sort of forgot to follow her writing until I saw this somewhere in the links above and it seemed interesting, while for once the none of the main characters seems to be a modern male teenager...

Liviu's Anticipated Novels of 2010 - collated post to be referred to and updated frequently as books come Liviu 2009

While I liked to a large extent Ms. Lowachee's loose trilogy Warchild, Burndive, Cagebird - I actually liked the writing a lot and the universe of the series was intriguing but the main characters were somewhat annoying and I generally dislike teen boys as heroes especially in sf, less in fantasy since in medieval times there was no such thing as "teenhood" and a 15-16 year old could be as mature as a 30 year old today, but having modern teens as heroes is like having children as heroes in many ways - I sort of forgot to follow her writing until I saw this somewhere in the links above and it seemed interesting, while for once the none of the main characters seems to be a modern male teenager...

Archive 2009-11-01 Liviu 2009

Newell and his fellow Englishman David Yates — director of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and future director of both installments of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — have a good grip on teenhood.

Sex and the Single Wizard 2009

She had her first agent at nine and then went from teenhood into Wild Orchid.

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

She had her first agent at nine and then went from teenhood into Wild Orchid.

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

Newell and his fellow Englishman David Yates — director of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and future director of both installments of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — have a good grip on teenhood.

Sex and the Single Wizard 2009

She had her first agent at nine and then went from teenhood into Wild Orchid.

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

Newell and his fellow Englishman David Yates — director of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and future director of both installments of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — have a good grip on teenhood.

Sex and the Single Wizard 2009

The prepubescent children of days gone by have given way to a cooler kid — the tween — who aspires to teenhood but is not quite there yet.

It's cooler than ever to be a tween, but is childhood lost? 2009