BEFORE THEY ARE HANGED (First Law #2) by Joe Abercrombie
Joe Abercrombie has done it again. He’s written another page-turner which plays with genre convention with a narrative style and pace that easily pulls…
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Starship: Mercenary by Mike Resnick
Published by PyrISBN 978-1-59102-599-3December 2007323 Pages Having given up the life of a space pirate, Captain Wilson Cole tries his hand at the…
Thunderer by Felix Gilman
Published by Bantam Spectra January 2008 ISBN 978-0-553-80676-2 437 Pages http://www.felixgilman.com/ City novels are something of a subgenre their own. Jeff VanderMeer’s…
The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod Published by Orbit, March 2008 ISBN: 9781841493497 370 pages plus interview extra Review by Hobbit…
Snake Agent by Liz Williams
Published by Night Shade Books January 2008 ISBN: 978-1-59780-107-2 352 Pages Liz Williams’s Live Journal: http://mevennen.livejournal.com/ Liz Williams writes in many sub-genres of…
Helix by Eric Brown
Published by Solaris June 2007 ISBN: 978-1-84416-472-1 526 Pages Eric Brown: http://www.ericbrown.co.uk/ While some people are bemoaning the dwindling of science fiction…
Swiftly by Adam Roberts
Swiftly by Adam Roberts Published by Gollancz UK Published March 2008 539 pages (ARC); 368 pages (Hardback) (ARC copy received for review.) ISBN:…
SHADOWBRIDGE by Gregory Frost
Published by Del Rey January 2008 ISBN 978-0-345-49758-1 255 Pages http://www.gregoryfrost.com/ Stories within stories are one of the greatest tricks in fiction…
The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V. S. Redick
The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V. S. Redick Published by Gollancz UK Published February 2008 539 pages (ARC); 384 pages (Hardback) (ARC…
The Dragons of Babel by Michael Swanwick
Tor hardcover 2008 Will le Fey is a teenage orphan of uncertain parentage. He lives in a rural village not far from the…
War Machine by Andy Remic
Published by Solaris November 2007 ISBN 1-88416-522-1 392 Pages Andy Remic: http://www.andyremic.com/ The statement atop Andy Remic’s War Machine bills the author…
Matter by Iain M. Banks
Matter by Iain M. Banks Published by Orbit UK and US Published February 2008 585 pages (ARC); 593 pages (Hardback) (ARC copy received…
Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
Blood Rites: Book Six of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher Published October 2005 (UK), by Orbit UK, US 2004. ISBN: 1841494038 452…
Killswitch by Joel Shepherd
Published by PyrISBN 978-159102-598-6November 2007450 Pages Web site www.joelshepherd.com In Killswitch, Joel Shepherd continues what some may consider an examination of humanity as…
Death Masks by Jim Butcher
Death Masks: Book Five of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher Published October 2005 (UK), by Orbit UK, US 2003. ISBN: 1841494011 405…
Solaris Book of New Fantasy, The by George Mann
Published by Solaris October 2007 ISBN 1-88416-523-X 503 Pages George Mann: http://www.solarisbooks.com/authors/george-mann/george-mann.asp Solaris Books is a new imprint with publishing operations in both…
Firstborn by Arthur C. Clarke
Firstborn by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter Book 3 of A Time Odyssey series Published by Del Rey, December 2007 (ARC copy…
The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock
Published by PyrISBN 978-1-59102-596-2October 2007370 Pages http://www.multiverse.org Michael Moorcock needs no introduction, nor does the character depicted by John Picacio on the…
In the Eye of Heaven by David Keck
Published by Tor MMPB March 2007 ISBN 0-765-35169-2 446 Pages http://www.keckbooks.com/ David Keck’s debut novel, In the Eye of Heaven tells the…
Fleet of Worlds (with Edward Lerner) by Larry Niven
Published by Tor October 2007 ISBN 0-7653-1825-3 299 Pages Larry Niven: http://www.larryniven.org Edward M. Lerner http://www.sfwa.org/members/lerner/ In all my genre readings, some of…
