Archive for July, 2009
links for 2009-07-31
July 31st 2009 at 1:01 pm
Bookgasm reviews The King’s Daughters by Nathalie Mallet "Mallet is not subtle with her foreshadowing, so you’ll be racing ahead trying to get the author to admit what you already know, but that’s a minor annoyance, given her penchant for storytelling. Most of her main characters are succinctly drawn, with real motivations and realistic behaviors. [...]
links for 2009-07-27
July 27th 2009 at 1:02 pm
Publishers Weekly reviews Bar None by Tim Lebbon & An Empire Unacquanted With Defeat by Glen Cook Bar None: "A fun, engaging, exceptionally strange and refreshingly original tale for fans of postapocalyptic fiction." An Empire Unacquanted With Defeat: "The stories share settings and characters, including the despotic empire itself, which lurks as an unseen but [...]
links for 2009-07-25
July 25th 2009 at 1:01 pm
BookPage Magazine reviews By Blood We Live edited by John Joseph Adams "More than anything, this anthology demonstrates that the vampire is not only undead but mutable, and in the best writers’ hands, a tool for analyzing our mortal frailty and resilience in the teeth of unadulterated evil and unimaginable love." (tags: Night_Shade_Books By_Blood_We_Live John_Joseph_Adams)
links for 2009-07-24
July 24th 2009 at 1:03 pm
Mad Hatter's Bookshelf reviews Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams "Williams has amazing ideas about technology and what could happen to society given the chance … Williams somehow mashes up conspiracies, zombies, AIs, government bureaucracy, planet crushing weapons, and galactic war yet it never seems absurd. … Williams is definitely not done with this universe [...]
links for 2009-07-23
July 23rd 2009 at 1:05 pm
Book Review: Moon Flights – Monsters and Critics "This collection of fifteen short stories span nearly two decades of Moon’s writing career. … Indeed, those familiar with Moon’s work will recognize and delight in revisiting her many universes. Strong and inventive, some of these stories include adroit social commentary while a couple are liberally sprinkled [...]
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume One table of contents announced!
July 20th 2009 at 4:22 pm
The table of contents lineup for editor Ellen Datlow’s upcoming anthology The Best Horror of the Year, Volume One has been announced. And what a great lineup it is! Table of Contents: Cargo — E. Michael Lewis If Angels Fight — Richard Bowes The Clay Party — Steve Duffy Penguins of the Apocalypse — William [...]
The Night Shade Interview: THE KING’S DAUGHTERS’s Nathalie Mallet
July 20th 2009 at 9:00 am
Recently, I had a chance to sit down and chat with Nathalie Mallet, author of the Prince Amir mysteries, Princes of the Golden Cage and its recently-released sequel, The King’s Daughters, about real-world inspirations, worldbuilding without maps, literary influences, and writing across genres. So take a few minutes, click on through, and read the Night [...]
The King’s Daughters by Nathalie Mallet">The King’s Daughters by Nathalie Mallet
July 20th 2009 at 8:55 am
Far to the north of the hot desert land of Telfar lies the frozen kingdom of Sorvinka. Prince Amir has traveled there, leaving his sultanate in the hands of his half-brother Erik as he seeks to ask the king, the father of the beautiful Princess Eva, for her hand in marriage. But Sorvinka has grown [...]
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3 edited by Jonathan Strahan">The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3 edited by Jonathan Strahan
July 20th 2009 at 8:53 am
An alien world with an argon atmosphere serves as the stage for the ultimate self-examination; an African-American scientist dissects a Lovecraftian slave race while fascism rears its head on the other side of the world; an elderly Jewish artist attracts a celestial muse; a doomed village of scavengers discovers the scattered pieces of a metal [...]
The Lees of Laughter’s End by Steven Erikson">The Lees of Laughter’s End by Steven Erikson
July 20th 2009 at 8:51 am
West of Theft, on a vast stretch of ocean known as the Wastes, the free-ship Suncurl pilots its way along the Lees of Laughter’s end, away from the city of Lamentable Moll. Aboard the ship, three passengers have become the subject of the crew’s gossip: the luckless manservant Emancipor Reese, and his masters, the homicidal [...]
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