Category: Book Reviews
High Fantasy continues to be the dominant branch of the Fantasy tree on the market, and every year a new author aims to make…
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2011, edited by Gordon van Gelder Review by Joey O’Donnell The Magazine of Fantasy and Science…
AMG Publishers/Living Ink Books 978-0-8995-7877-4 October 2010, Trade Paperback http://swordinthestars.com/ Wayne Thomas Batson has written a number of well-received young adult novels and…
Night Shade Books 978-1-5978-0214-7 January 2011, Trade Paperback http://www.kameronhurley.com/ Government assassins, organ removal and resale, and bugs – lots and lots of bugs,…
The Lost Fleet: Dauntless Volume One of the Lost Fleet Series By Jack Campbell (aka John G. Hemry) First published in the US by…
When one of the most anticipated novels publishes and it happens to be the follow-up to one of the most widely praised debut…
The Prestige by Christopher Priest Reissued by Gollancz: first published 1995, reissue March 2011. ISBN: 9780 575 09941 8 370 pages First published in…
The Heir of Night by Helen Lowe Published by Orbit UK, March 2011. ISBN: 978 0 35650 000 3 464 pages www.helenlowe.info Review by…
The Savage Gentleman by Philip Wylie Published by Bison Books (University of Nebraska Press), March 2011. Originally published 1932. Review copy received. 186 pages…
Mass Market Paperback Bantam Spectra ISBN 9780553593228 http://www.timlebbon.net/ Pseudo-science and revolution converge in Echo City the post-apocalyptic/dark fantasy novel by Tim Lebbon. …
The Crippled God by Steven Erikson ISBN: 978-0593046357 944 pages Published by Bantam, February 2011. (Review copy received.) This then is the end of…
Roc, Mass Market Paperback February 2010 www.james-knapp.com ISBN 9780451463104 The shorthand description I’d use for James Knapp’s debut novel, State of Decay, would…
Pyr, Trade PaperbackISBN: 978-1-61614-240-7 Author Web site: http://www.sextonblake.co.uk/ Sample: http://pyrsamples.blogspot.com/2010/10/strange-affair-of-spring-heeled-jack-by.html Urban legends, creatures out of folklore, and real life heroes converge in Mark…
Dragon in the Sea by Frank Herbert (1956) First published as Under Pressure in Analog Magazine (November and December 1955, January 1956) and by…
David Weber is one of the most prolific and popular writers in Science Fiction and Fantasy, his novels hit the best seller lists and…
Son of Heaven by David Wingrove Published by Corvus, February/March 2011 (Review copy received) 368 pages ISBN: 978 1 84887 524 1 http://chung-kuo.net/ Review…
Rivers of London/ Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovich Published by Orion UK/US (Review copy received) Published January 2011 392 pages ISBN: 978 0 575…
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve. By William H. Patterson, Jr. Published by Tor US, August 2010…
January 2011Black Library AudioRead by Martyn Eliis The Imperium of Man is at the heights of its power, expanding across the galaxy and…
The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie Published by Gollancz, January 2011 (Review copy received.) ISBN: 978 057 508 3837 680 pages Review by Mark Yon…