Archive for January, 2012

A Review: Never Knew Another

January 31st 2012 at 9:55 am

Black Gate gives an awesome and thorough review of Never Knew Another, “J.M. McDermott’s third book, Never Knew Another, is a secondary-world fantasy tale told in a sparse yet elegant style, about hunters seeking dangerous magical prey — and also about two people drawing closer to each other without knowing it, despite having to hide [...]

A Review: Tooth and Nail

January 31st 2012 at 9:50 am

“Contrary to the article that graced this blog last week, I have been known to choose a book to read (or not read) based on genre. Usually I do it to avoid things I know I won’t like, as opposed to trending toward things I know I will. For example, I hate paranormal romance and [...]

A Review: Alien Contact

January 31st 2012 at 9:46 am

“Alien Contact is an intelligently edited anthology of 26 first contact stories. And thankfully, Mr. Halpern has decided to mine the last 30 years for his selections, eschewing more well-known and oft-reprinted old favorites from earlier decades. So, this is a huge anthology favoring more contemporary SF and it acquits itself wonderfully. I do not [...]

A Review: Alien Contact

January 30th 2012 at 4:36 pm

“There’s quite a lot of contact in these stories; with many and various life-forms. A recurring feature seems to be hair that grows in snake-like tendrils and has a life of its own. More than one of the authors here seems to delight in that Medusa-like image. And there’s a powerful embedding of mythic motifs [...]

Publishers Weekly Reviews Jane Carver of Waar

January 30th 2012 at 4:34 pm

“In this affectionate and often raunchy parody of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s John Carter of Mars books, the slavery-tolerant Confederate veteran pursued by Apaches becomes a proud biker chick on the run from cops for manslaughter. One mysterious transportation later, Jane is on an alien world. Shortly after arriving, Jane gets stuck helping lovestruck aristocrat Sai-Far, [...]

A Review: Tooth and Nail

January 29th 2012 at 1:00 pm

“I never thought I’d be reading a story about a tooth fairy, but in ‘Tooth and Nail’, Jennifer Safrey takes the premise that such fairies are real, gives them a credible reason for teeth stealing, and weaves it into an awesome and surprising urban fantasy.” Read the full review here.

A Review: The Emperor’s Knife

January 27th 2012 at 6:09 pm

“A plague is running rampant in the Cerani Empire. It infects everyone and the emperor himself has recently been infected and his future uncertain. His brother, Sarmin, hidden away as a child but kept alive as a spare, finds himself suddenly a part of a political game again and set to marry a woman from [...]

A Review: The Whitefire Crossing

January 27th 2012 at 6:07 pm

“I eavesdropped on a Twitter conversation a couple months ago between a couple of bloggers whose opinions I (generally) respect. The conversation was about the tired old issue of genre and sub-genre definitions and classifications. This is generally a topic I have little taste for as I tend to take a pretty broad definition and [...]

Debut Author Challenge: John Love

January 26th 2012 at 5:19 pm

“TQ: What would you say is your most interesting writing quirk? John Rather grandly, I used to tell people that I preferred writing key passages with pen on paper first: the texture of the paper, the feel of the nib, and so on. Like a real auteur. Pretty soon into writing FAITH, all that got [...]

A Review: Hitchers

January 25th 2012 at 5:09 pm

“Will McIntosh’s debut Soft Apocalypse, which I reviewed here, was a brilliant novel about normal people trying to survive while society gradually collapses around them. It was easily one of my favorite novels of 2011. His catalog of strong short stories includes “Bridesicles,” which won the Hugo and was a Nebula finalist. It’s one of [...]

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