SFFWorld Archive: A Cavern of Black Ice by JV Jones
Occasionally we resurrect old reviews to show what we thought of a now-regarded-as-classic book. Today it’s the turn of J.V. Jones’ novel, A Cavern…
Category: Book Reviews
House of Windows by John Langan
I am suspicious that if I were to ask the readers of horror to name a few novels about vampires or zombies that most…
ARCANUM UNBOUNDED by Brandon Sanderson
Opening Arcanum Unbounded, the first collection of short fiction from Brandon Sanderson, I was struck by something rather quickly. No, not that “short” is…
SFFWorld Archive: Temeraire by Naomi Novik
Occasionally we resurrect old reviews to show what we thought of a book when it was first published. Today it’s the turn of Naomi…
Gilded Cage by Vic James
Gilded Cage is an exquisitely wicked book. The gilded cover only hints at what lies within. Author Vic James unleashes a lavishly opulent, yet…
Last Year by Robert Charles Wilson
Robert Charles Wilson’s latest novel, Last Year, is a strange one: a near future SF novel set in an Illinois of 1876. With the…
DREADNOUGHT by April Daniels
Superheroes / superhero fiction are perhaps the most popular things in popular culture today that don’t involve a boy wizard or are set in…
The Massacre of Mankind by Stephen Baxter
I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while. You may know that I recently reread the original book to which this is an…
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born Omnibus
**This is the first entry in what will be a series of reviews on Stephen King’s Dark Tower universe, starting with the comic book…
SFFWorld Archive: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Occasionally we resurrect old reviews to show what we thought of a book when it was first published. Today it’s the turn of Patrick…
The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman
When it’s your job to save the day – where do you start? Librarian spy Irene has standards to maintain, especially while on probation.…
SILVER ON THE ROAD by Laura Anne Gilman (The Devil’s West #1)
Weird Western is a cagey growing category / subgenre within Speculative Fiction, but a natural one. Often set amidst the still burgeoning United States,…
Empire Games by Charles Stross
You know you’re in for a complicated read when the first thing you read in a new novel is a summary of four different…
Mr. Gaunt and other uneasy encounters by John Langan
John Langan is one of the newer batch of horror writers to come on the scene in the last 10 years. Having written a…
THE HEART OF WHAT WAS LOST by Tad Williams
Tad Williams is a seminal writer for me and his Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy chronicling a tumultuous, war-torn Osten Ard sits atop my…
NINE OF STARS by Laura Bickle (Wildlands #1)
When is an Urban Fantasy not an Urban Fantasy? What makes a story / novel an urban fantasy? The criteria is rather nebulous, so…
Five Stories High, a haunted house anthology
Five Stories High features (surprise surprise) five horror stories of substantial length, arguably six—and it would be a churlish reviewer who cast the book…
THE GUNS OF EMPIRE by Django Wexler (The Shadow Campaigns #4)
Django Wexler’s fantastic flintlock fantasy saga continues in The Guns of Empire, the fourth installment of The Shadow Campaigns. With only one volume remaining…
The War of the Worlds by H G Wells
“Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects…
Not This August by Cyril Kornbluth
Imagine the unthinkable: in the Cold War of the 1960’s, the United States has surrendered to the joint forces of the USSR and…
