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Book Review – The Night Sessions
“The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion, nor on any other.”Thirty-First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
After flipping past the title page, publishing information, dedication, and thank you’s, the reader encounters the above noted passage. Right away, it would seem much has happened since the present day and the time this book takes place, and right away one wonders . . .
Book Review – Lamplighter
Author: D.M. Cornish Publisher: David Fickling Books, a division of Random House Children’s Books Cover Design: blacksheep-uk.com Binding: Hardback Publication Date: May 2008 lamplighter (noun) essentially a kind of specialised soldier, mostly employed by the Empire, though some states also have them. The main task of the lamplighter is to go out in the late [...]
Short Fiction Round Table: Memoir of a Deer Woman by M. Rickert
Short Fiction Round Table: Best American Fantasy 2008
Memoir of a Deer Woman by M. Rickert
Book Review – Skin Lane
Author: Neil Bartlett Cover Artist: Jeff Cottenden Publisher: Serpent’s Tail Binding: Paperback Publication Date: November 2008 “The stories we are told as children do, undoubtedly, mark us for life. They are often stories of dark and terrible things, and we are usually told them just before the lights are turned out and we are left [...]
Book Review – Vampyres of Hollywood
Author: Adrienne Barbeau & Michael Scot Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Binding: Paperback Publication Date: July 2008 The actress Adrienne Barbeau, probably best known for the ‘70s tv series Maude and more recently the HBO series Carnivale, teams up with prolific author Michael Scott (his YA novel The Alchemyst is being made into a movie) to [...]
Book Review – The Shadow Year
Author: Jeffrey Ford Cover Artist: Dan Burn-Forti Publisher: William Morrow Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2008 Almost two years ago when I reviewed Ford’s collection The Empire of Ice Cream for FantasyBookSpot, I noted that Botch Town was my favorite of the bunch. It was something of a mystery story meshed with a coming of age [...]
Book Review – Paper Cities, An Anthology of Urban Fantasy
Edited by: Ekaterina Sedia Cover Artist: Aaron Acevedo Publisher: Senses Five Press Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2008 Urban fantasy has long-reaching roots, but it is only in the last twenty years or so that writers and readers have begun using the term in an effort to describe and define a subgenre of fantasy. A subgenre [...]
Book Review – Sorceress
Author: Lisa Jackson Publisher: Signet Binding: Paperback Publication Date: September 2007 Sorceress is a familiar combination of romance, prophecy and quest in a medieval setting. Our heroine Bryanna is guided by a dead woman in her quest to fulfill a prophecy and save a child she has never met. “According to legend, the Sacred Dagger [...]
Book Review – The Sunrise Lands
Author: S.M. Stirling Cover Artist: Larry Rostant Publisher: ROC Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: September 2007 Stirling is the author of the Nantucket series and Emberverse series of books that have now become collectively known as the Novels of the Change. Not having read those previous six books, I can only surmise, based on my reading [...]
Book Review – An Unexpected Apprentice
Author: Jody Lynn Nye Cover Artist: Michael Kaluta Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: June 2007 The story begins with an attack by winged monstrosities known as thraik; an attack that ultimately leaves the young Tildi Summerbee completely bereft of her family. Being a seventeen year old female, the elders of her community decide that [...]
Book Review – The Devil’s Right Hand
Author: Lilith Saintcrow Cover Artist: Calvin Shu Publisher: Orbit Binding: Paperback Publication Date: September 2007 Dante Valentine is the Necromance, Tierce Japhrimel is the demon and Valentine’s lover, and the Devil wants Valentine to use her skills as a bounty hunter to bring in four other demons who have escaped from hell. The Devil’s Right [...]
Book Review – Mainspring
Author: Jay Lake Cover Artist: Stephan Martiniere Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: June 2007 “I am Gabriel,” said the angel, “come to charge you with a duty.” By the second page of Mainspring, the teenaged clockwork apprentice Hethor has been given the task of finding the Key Perilous to re-wind the world’s mainspring, which [...]
