Archive for February, 2008
SF Crowsnest: Wastelands is "impressive"
February 4th 2008 at 10:46 am
SF Crowsnest just published a nice review by Tomas L. Martin of Wastelands: "In this, his first anthology, [Adams] collects together an impressive array of post-apocalyptic short stories. […] Stands out as one of the best short story collections I’ve read in a while."
Locus reviews The Sword-Edged Blonde
February 4th 2008 at 10:43 am
The February 2008 issue of Locus Magazine has a nice review by Faren Miller of The Sword-Edged Blonde, in which Miller says that the book is a good example of "genre hybrids that are more than just an authorial stunts like juggling apples and oranges."
Miller then goes on to say: "The classic hardboiled mysteries […]
The Denver Post and Locus Love Pump Six
February 3rd 2008 at 7:11 pm
In a glowing review in The Denver Post, science fiction reviewer Fred Cleaver describes Paolo Bacigalupi as having made "a big splash with a small number of well-written and emotional stories," and says that his debut collection Pump Six "succeeded brilliantly."
Also, Locus Magazine’s review from their February 2008 issue is now online. In it, reviewer […]
Charles de Lint reviews The Sword-Edged Blonde
February 2nd 2008 at 11:17 pm
Charles de Lint has some great things to say about Alex Bledsoe’s The Sword-Edged Blonde in this month’s issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction: “…once you get past the novelty of a hardboiled fantasy novel, you’ll forget that it’s a novelty because there’s meat on the bones of the story to be found here… I […]
Night Shade authors Make Annual Locus Recommended reading list!
February 2nd 2008 at 10:01 pm
Congratulations to all the Night Shade authors who made the Locus Recommended list:
Fantasy novels
* The Spiral Labyrinth, Matthew Hughes
* softspoken, Lucius Shepard
First novels
* Grey, Jon Armstrong
* The Sword-Edged Blonde, Alex Bledsoe
Collections
* The Imago Sequence […]
