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Book Review – Dragon in Chains by Daniel Fox
Dragon in Chains is a stunning Oriental fantasy by Daniel Fox, which is the pen-name of the award-winning British writer Chaz Brenchley, known for the historical fantasy series The Books of Outremer. Dragon in Chains was conceived after a visit to Taiwan and both the story and world-building draws heavily on a vision of feudal China.
Book Review – Hand of Isis by Jo Graham
Last year Jo Graham made her debut as a novelist with Black Ships, a poignant and intimate re-working of the story of Vergil’s Aeneid, set in the Mediterranean Bronze Age, a world poised on the brink of collapse. Graham remains firmly entrenched in the Antique world with her second novel though it is set in a much later period where the Hellenistic culture that spread throughout the Ancient world in the wake of Alexander the Great . . .
Book Review – Rifling Paradise by Jem Poster
Rifling Paradise is the second novel of the critically acclaimed novelist and poet Jem Poster. The praise is indeed well-deserved – Rifling Paradise is a very well-crafted piece of literary fiction; it is intense, vivid and thoughtful in its exploration of the hidden passions, forbidden desires and the unspoken social codes of Victorian society . . .
Book Review – Caligula
Douglas Jackson is a new Scottish writer who became a bit of a local sensation when he recently secured a six-figure deal with Transworld Publishers; a deal that includes his debut Caligula and a sequel titled Claudius. As the title suggests, the story of Caligula is set in Ancient Rome, more specifically in the 1st century AD . . .
Book Review – The Republic of Vengeance
Author: Paul Waters Publisher: Overlook Press Publishing Date: February 2009 Binding: Hardback The Republic of Vengeance marks the entry of a new and interesting author into the newly revitalized field of historical fiction. Paul Waters is trained as a classicist and his first novel is a testament to his historical expertise in its depiction of [...]
Book Review – Blood Ties
Author: Pamela Freeman Publisher: Orbit Publishing Date: June 2008 Binding: Paperback Cover Artist: Darian Causby Blood Ties is written by the Australian author Pamela Freeman who previously has written fantasy aimed at children and young adult readers. Blood Ties is her first foray into the territory of adult fantasy and it is the first book [...]
Book Review – Empire in Black and Gold
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky Publisher: Tor UK / Pan MacMillan Publishing Date: July 2008 Binding: Paperback Cover Artist: Dominic Harman Empire in Black and Gold is the debut of British author Adrian Tchaikovsky and the first installment in a trilogy titled Shadows of the Apt. In his debut Tchaikovsky gives us a heroic narrative where a [...]
Short Fiction Round Table: The Ruby Incomparable by Kage Baker
Short Fiction Round Table: Best American Fantasy 2008
The Ruby Incomparable by Kage Baker
Book Review – Whiskey and Water: A Novel of the Promethean Age
Author: Elizabeth Bear Publisher: Roc Publishing Date: January 2009 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Cover Artist: Paul Youll Whiskey and Water is the second novel published in Elizabeth Bear’s series of the Promethean Age and should be considered as an independent sequel to Blood and Iron. The story of Whiskey and Water takes place about seven [...]
Book Review – Blood and Iron: A Novel of the Promethean Age
Author: Elizabeth Bear Publisher: Roc Publishing Date: June 2008 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Cover Artist: Paul Youll Elizabeth Bear is a very talented, imaginative and highly prolific writer, who, since publishing her first novel from 2004 (Hammered), already has 13 whole novels under her belt (though one of them, A Companion to Wolves, is co-authored [...]
Book Review – Child of the Prophecy
Author: Juliet Marillier Publisher: TOR Publishing Date: June 2003 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Cover Artist: John Jude Palencar Child of the Prophecy is the final installment in Juliet Marillier’s award winning Sevenwaters Trilogy, which she begun with Daughter of the Forest and continued with Son of the Shadows, and I am pleased to say that [...]
Book Review – Dust
Author: Elizabeth Bear Publisher: Bantam Spectra Publishing Date: January 2008 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Cover Artist: Paul Youll Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Arthur C. Clarke) This well-known, and perhaps even iconic, statement of Clarke’s is, in many respects, particularly pertinent to Elizabeth Bear’s new novel Dust, the first canto in a [...]
