THE DEVIL’S ARMOR (Bronze Knight #2) by John Marco
John Marco’s latest novel, The Devil’s Armor, is a direct follow-up to his first hardcover release, The Eyes of God. As such, he picks…
Year: 2003
Shatterpoint by Matthew Woodring Stover
Mace Windu is perhaps the most intriguing and mysterious character in the Star Wars prequel films. He is a character that is just about…
Ilium by Dan Simmons
Readers of science fiction should be familiar with the name Dan Simmons. His Hugo® Award winning novel, Hyperion established his name in Science Fiction.…
The Battle of Evernight by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
And so onto Book 3. The story here starts pretty much where Book 2 (The Lady of Sorrows – see earlier review) left us,…
Outremer Saga (Book 1 and 2) by Chaz Brenchley
Chaz Brenchley’s Outremer saga has been receiving praise since its initial UK publication in 1998. In July 2003, ACE books began publishing this saga…
Darkness That Comes Before, The by R. Scott Bakker
Opening the pages of an author’s first novel can be a daunting endeavor, or at least one mitigated with amounts of joyful anxiety and…
Lord of Snow and Shadows by Sarah Ash
All too often Epic/High fantasy, for all the supposed imagination, is a genre rife with cliché, dark lords, magic, young innocents-who-inherit-power. Part of the…
Fan Fiction: Bane or Boone? by Noelle Hay
Remember that really weird dream you had about Legolas? You might call it a fantasy, but write it down, it becomes “fan fiction.” Fans…
The Gift of Immortality by Paul Kieniewicz
So, you want to be immortal? Or at least to live longer than 80 years without becoming decrepit or having to contend with deteriorating…
The Economics of Being a Fantasy Writer by Jeff Wheeler
With the economics not necessarily being in my favor, why do I write stories? Why do I write novels? Is a $1250 check really…
Literature as a Form of Science Fiction by Peter Bottomley
There seems to be a growing trend in the literary world that views Science Fiction as the second-rate, poor-relation member of the literature family.…
Starting An Internet e-Publishing Business Was Not Easy by Jay Dubya
On July 1st, 1999 I had retired from the Hammonton, New Jersey Public School District as a middle school English teacher after thirty-four years…
Interview with Mark Lavine
Q: Can you tell us a bit about how you came up with the idea for Forever Child? A: Well, often times writers, particularly…
The Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells
In the opening volume of the sequel trilogy to The Death of the Necromancer, Martha Wells further fleshes out the world she introduced in…
Forever Child by Mark Lavine
Three-hundred years into the future, and the world has changed. Among a chosen few, life expectancy is now hundreds of years; these are the…
The Lady of the Sorrows by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
And so onto book 2, which pretty much continues where Book 1 (The Ill-Made Mute – see review) left off.Imrhain is now no longer…
The Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
The basic outline of this book is one of those that can be simplified down to ‘the child destined for greater things’. Think EH…
Viewing the Icons by William Alan Rieser
If you peruse the SF section of a modern library, you might be surprised by what you’ll find, especially if you are not accustomed…
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
Mind-numbing. Big Ideas. Suspense. These are only three things that begin to describe Richard K. Morgan’s debut novel, Altered Carbon. The title of the…
Mojo: Conjure Stories by Nalo Hopkinson
Edited by Nalo HopkinsonNoted author Nalo Hopkinson has turned her considerable skills to anthology editing in this balanced and satisfying collection. Mojo: Conjure Stories…
