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Book Review – Agent to the Stars
With the basic premise of the novel being that an alien race has hired a Hollywood agent for representation and to properly introduce them to humanity, a suspension of disbelief is immediately necessary. One could easily nit-pick this novel and its details to death . . .
Book Review – The House of the Stag
Author: Kage Baker Cover Artist: Tom Kidd Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: September, 2008 In Kage Baker’s satirical fantasy, The Anvil of the World, a brief encounter with powerful Dark Lord turns out to be a bit different than expected. In The House of the Stag, Baker revisits this world to tell the infamous [...]
Book Review – Zoe’s Tale
Author: John Scalzi Cover Artist: John Harris Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: August 2008 In Zoë’s Tale John Scalzi changes stride – this stand-alone novel set in the Old Man’s War universe is told entirely from the perspective of a 17-year old girl, intentionally being accessible to both adults and a young-adult audience. Zoë’s [...]
Book Review – A Magic of Twilight
Author: S. L. Farrell Cover Artist: Todd Lockwood Publisher: DAW Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: February 2008 Take the political intrigue of various factions of church, state, subjugated peoples of an empire, and religious heretics in a Renaissance setting and combine with magic and a well-realized fantasy setting and the result is A Magic of Twilight [...]
Book Review – D.A.
Author: Connie Willis Cover Artist: J.K. Potter Publisher: Subterranean Press Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: July 2007 At some point in our lives, we’ve all known that person who has a passion about something that they share with everyone – in a way that is so completely annoying that it makes you want to be violently [...]
Book Review – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: J.K. Rowling Cover Artist: Mary Grandpre Publisher: Scholastic Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: July 2007 revealed. However, since this review does discuss the book, there may be some parts of it that could be considered spoiler-ish by some people. I have not included anything that I would consider spoiler or even close to a spoiler [...]
Book Review – The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate
Author: Ted Chiang Publisher: Subterranean Press Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: July 2007 The short fiction of Ted Chiang can be found at or near the top of many ‘best of lists’ in the SFF world – particularly among some of its most vibrant writers. I still have not read his previous publication – Stories of [...]
Book Review – Bangkok Haunts
Author: John Burdett Publisher: Knopf Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: June 2007 Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep reflects the mysticism and apparent contradiction of Thailand that those of us of ‘Western’ origin just cannot understand. Yet he stands somewhat apart from Thai society as a half-caste who spent a significant time abroad while growing up. Firmly rooted in [...]
Book Review – New Amsterdam
Author: Elizabeth Bear Publisher: Subterranean Press Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: May, 2007 Set in a Victorian era and a New Amsterdam still apart of the British Empire, where many of the familiar vampire tropes made popular by the likes of Anne Rice and Laurell K. Hamilton, and a good bit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [...]
Book Review – The Last Colony
Author: John Scalzi Cover Artist: John Harris Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: April 2007 Scalzi writes consistently fun, easy-reading, adventurous, military science fiction and The Last Colony is no exception. If you’ve read and enjoyed his other novels, chances are good you’ll like this one. I dare you to put the novel aside in [...]
Book Review – The Ghost Brigades
Author: John Scalzi Cover Artist: John Harris Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: February 2006 John Scalzi follows up his first book, Old Man’s War with The Ghost Brigades. Having read three books of his, I can say that The Ghost Brigades provides exactly what I’ve come to expect from him – a good, fun [...]
Book Review – Old Man’s War
Author: John Scalzi Cover Artist: Donato Giancola Publisher: Tor Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2005 When reading Old Man’s War by John Scalzi it’s easy to see why it was a Hugo Award finalist and why it didn’t win. Ultimately Old Man’s War does not cover new ground; it’s not shocking or profound; however, it is [...]
