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Book Review – A Sword From Red Ice
Author: J.V. Jones Cover Artist: Jean Pierre Targete Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: October 2007 A Sword From Red Ice brings us a long-awaited continuation of J.V. Jones’ Sword of Shadows series. In the Northern Territories, the situation is rapidly growing ever more dire for all those living – the clans, the cityfolk and [...]
Book Review – The Separated
Author: Troon Harrison Publisher: Brown Barn Books Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2006 In the land of Verde, the evil sorcerer Lord Maldici is plotting to gain even more power to augment what he inherited from his ancestor Lord Morte. His minions already hold most of the land of Verde under his sway – looting and [...]
Book Review – The Wannoshay Cycle
Author: Michael Jasper Cover Artist: Alan M. Clark Publisher: Five Star Books Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: January 2008 The Wannoshay came to Earth from their far-distant planet – a planet that has become increasingly uninhabitable as the sun begins to burn out. They landed their ships across the Midwestern US and Canada, amongst a populace [...]
Book Review – Stamping Butterflies
Author: Jon Courtenay-Grimwood Cover Artist: Stephen Youll Publisher: Bantam Spectra Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2004 A condemned man known only as Prisoner Zero. A Chinese emperor in the distant future. A young street punk in Marrakech. These are the players in a struggle that spans space and time, a struggle that the fate of humanity [...]
Book Review – Kris Longknife: Audacious
Author: Mike Shepherd Cover Artist: Scott Grimando Publisher: ACE Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2007 The titular heroine of Mike Shepherd’s Kris Longknife series returns in Kris Longknife: Audacious. As the story opens, Kris has arrived on the planet of New Eden, ostensibly for some long-overdue rest after a tour of duty in the Rim Territories. [...]
Book Review – The Book of Joby
Author: Mark J. Ferrari Publisher: Tor Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2007 Mark. J. Ferrari’s debut The Book of Joby is an inventive spin on Arthurian legend and the Biblical story of Job. As the book opens, God is offered a wager by Lucifer, with the fate of all Creation riding on the outcome. Should Lucifer [...]
Book Review – John Dies At The End
Author: David Wong Cover Artist: Christian Dovel Publisher: Permuted Press Binding: Paperback Publication Date: August 2008 John Dies At The End began as a short story on author David Wong’s website. Due to popular demand, it was expanded into a serial posted in installments and finally published in book form. Featuring Wong himself as the [...]
Book Review – The Ivory and the Horn
Author: Charles de Lint Cover Artist: John Jude Palencar Publisher: Orb Binding: Paperback Publication Date:1995 Charles de Lint’s collection The Ivory and the Horn gathers together 15 of his tales set in the city of Newford – revealing not only the darkness but the beauty that always lies beneath the surface of life. I read [...]
Book Review – Monstrocity
Author: Jeffrey Thomas Publisher: Prime Books Binding: Hardback Publication Date: 2003 Punktown, on the planet Oasis. In this sprawling metropolis, a Lovecraftian evil is stirring – spreading its shadowy tentacles through the city. When his girlfriend discovers a copy of the Necronomicon – an ancient text reputed to summon the Great Old Ones – Christopher [...]
Book Review – Farseed
Author: Pamela Sargent Cover Artist: Daniel Dos Santos Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardback Publication Date: October 2007 Almost 25 years after the publication of her acclaimed young adult novel Earthseed, Pamela Sargent’s Farseed continues the story. Although it is billed as a sequel to the original novel, Farseed does actually stand alone quite well despite a [...]
Book Review – The Culled
Author: Simon Spurrier Cover Artist: Mark Harrison Publisher: Abaddon Books Binding: Hardback Publication Date: 2007 In the near future, the hideous plague known as The Blight has swept across Earth like wildfire, killing a massive segment of the population with a particular blood type, leaving only scattered pockets of survivors across the planet. In the [...]
Book Review – Darkness of the Light
Author: Peter David Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardback Publication Date: 2007 In the far future on Earth, now known as the “Damned World”, humanity is all but extinct and twelve races contend with one another for survival amongst the remnants of human habitation: creatures resembling cyclopes, vampires, trolls, orcs, satyrs and others out of myth and [...]
