The Strain by Guillermo del Toro
The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan Published by Harper Collins, April 2010. 464 pages ISBN: 978-0007311293 Review by Mark Yon In…
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Player of Games, The by Iain M. Banks
Published by OrbitISBN 978-0-31600-540-1April 2008416 Pageshttp://www.iain-banks.net/science-fiction/ Iain M. Banks’s Culture spans several civilizations and galaxies, and the books over a great many years. …
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Random HouseJune 2010ISBN 13 9780345504968766 pageshttp://enterthepassage.com/ It begins in the year 2017 with a young girl who is born of an affair between…
Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Pyr, March 2010Trade Paperback, 508 ppISBN: 978-1-61614-192-9http://shadowsoftheapt.com/ Part Epic Fantasy, part Military Fantasy, and part espionage thriller, Empire in Black and Gold is…
Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
TorApril 2010ISBN 978-0-76531-250-2352 PagesAuthor Web site: http://www.iantregillis.com/Excerpt: http://images.iantregillis.com/downloads/BitterSeeds_Prologue.pdf World War II is one of the most widely used historical periods in any genre,…
SHADOWRISE by Tad Williams
Where to start with a review of the third book in a four-book sequence? A third book that was thought to be the…
The World Beyond the Hill by Alexei Panshin
The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence By Alexei and Cory Panshin. Published by Phoenix Pick: http://www.phoenixpick.com/ ISBN: Hardcover,…
Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth
Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth Published by Hodder and Stoughton, June 2010 391 pages ISBN: 978-0340998144 Review by Mark Yon As we’ve said before…
The Burning Skies by David J Williams
The Burning Skies by David J. Williams Book Two of the Autumn Rain series Published by Spectra/Bantam, 2009 (Review copy received) ISBN: 978 055…
Sword of Albion by Mark Chadbourn
Sword of Albion / The Silver Mask (US) By Mark Chadbourn. Published by Bantam Press (UK) ISBN: 978-0593062470 420 pages Published May 2010 (Review…
Neverland by Douglas Clegg
April 2010Vanguard Press, 113 pagesPaperback, 9781593155414http://douglasclegg.comhttp://douglasclegg.com/neverlandgame.html Family secrets, old houses, local legends, and corrupted youthful innocence thrown together with a healthy dose…
The Spiral Labyrinth by Matthew Hughes
Night Shade Books, Trade Paperback978-1-59780-093-8November 2008http://www.archonate.com Matthew Hughes has been writing for quite some time, but what he’s been receiving the most recent…
Kraken by China Mieville
Kraken by China Miéville Published by Macmillan ISBN: 9780333989500 400 pages May 2010 (ARC galley received.) Review by Mark Yon After the interesting reaction…
SHADOWPLAY by Tad Williams
Tad Williams is one of the preeminent epic storytellers, having built his reputation in the late 1980s with Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, and…
Watch by Robert J. Sawyer
Ace, Hardcover978-0-44101-818-5April 2010http://wakewatchwonder.com/http://sfwriter.com/Sample Chapter: http://sfwriter.com/scw2.htm Robert J. Sawyer’s near future, artificial intelligence, post-cyberbunk trilogy continues with Watch. With her ability to see enabled…
Small Favour by Jim Butcher
Small Favour: Book Ten of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher Published April 2008 (UK), by Orbit UK, US 2008. ISBN: 9781841496887 437 pages…
Spellwright by Blake Charlton
TorMarch 2010ISBN 978-0-76531-727-8350 PagesAuthor Web site: www.blakecharlton.com Very few fantasy stories are completely original; most borrow something from those that came before or…
Sons of Dorn by Chris Roberson
January 2010 416 pp ISBN: 9781844167883 Mass Market Paperback www.chrisroberson.net Military Science Fiction, many people rightly say, was given birth with Robert A.…
Mad God’s Amulet, The by Michael Moorcock
Tor Trade Paperback April 2010 207 Pages Last month I reviewed The Jewel in the Skull, the first book in Michael Moorcock’s Hawkmoon series,…
Gardens of the Sun by Paul J. McAuley
462 pp ISBN: 978-1-61614-196-7 Trade Paperback September 2010 http://unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com In this sequel to The Quiet War, the cast of characters returns with one addition:…
