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Original Sin by Allison Brennan – review

Original Sin by Allison Brennan – review

By C.N. Rivera on April 14, 2011

From the back cover: Haunted by chilling memories of demonic possession and murder, Moira O’Donnell has spent seven years hunting down her mother, Fiona, whose command of black magic has granted her unprecedented control of the underworld. Now Moira’s global search has led her to a small California town that’s about to become hell on [...]

Posted in Books, Reviews | Tagged Allison Brennan, Ballantine Books, Fantasy, Original Sin, Seven Deadly Sins series | Leave a response

Juliet by Anne Fortier – review

Juliet by Anne Fortier – review

By Elena Nola on September 3, 2010

I haven’t been as excited about a book as I was when I got to the end of Juliet in a long time.  A year, maybe.  Anne Fortier has managed what might well be the impossible:  making Romeo and Juliet fresh again.  Not in the way that West Side Story did, by re-setting and re-casting [...]

Posted in Books, Reviews | Tagged Anne Fortier, Ballantine Books, Elena's World, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Juliet, Romance | 1 Response

Transformers Exodus – Cybertronian Sausage

Transformers Exodus – Cybertronian Sausage

By Jay Tomio on August 5, 2010

Saw something the other day that called Gestalt Mash “heady”, so in the interest of not being pigeon-holed as a venue just  for potential kwisatz haderaches and savant-acolytes, I’m talking Transformers today for the rank and file shock troops. Not low brow enough? How about a Transformers novel? Yes, a little Cybertronian literature for the [...]

Posted in Books, Movies | Tagged Alex Irvine, Ballantine Books, Random House, Science Fiction, Transformers, Transformers: Exodus | Leave a response

Boogeyman Nights – Stuffing the Legend

Boogeyman Nights – Stuffing the Legend

By Jay Tomio on August 1, 2010

I’m not going to do a lot of traditional reviews here outside of the very  focused regular features we have, and instead am shooting for a more conversational pointers or insubstantial dismissals. I talked about The Stuff of Legend a bit over at my collecting blog, Vogue Immunity (EDIT: now Protocult), though I didn’t really [...]

Posted in Comic Books, Reviews | Tagged Ballantine Books, Brian Smith, Charles Paul Wilson III, Mike Raicht, Random House, Th3rd World Studios, The Stuff of Legend, Villard | Leave a response

Wolfbreed by S.A. Swann – review

Wolfbreed by S.A. Swann – review

By Lexie C on June 16, 2010

Wolfbreed is a different genre of paranormal for me to read.  Set in 13th-century Prussia, it introduces us to Lilly, one of a group of young werewolves trained by the Teutonic Order to be brutal killing machines for the Church.  They’re treated as animals, albeit highly skilled and useful animals that do the Church’s dirty business [...]

Posted in Books, Reviews | Tagged Ballantine Books, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, S.A. Swann, Wolfbreed | Leave a response

The Prisoner by Carlos J. Cortes – review

The Prisoner by Carlos J. Cortes – review

By Douglas Cobb on November 14, 2009

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Set on Earth in Washington, D.C., Carlos J. Cortes’s new techno-thriller The Prisoner depicts a realistic scenario in which scientists come up with a solution for the problem of overcrowded prisons in the United States. The answer? Hibernation. Before you scoff at this possiblity, or laugh at its improbability, consider what the author told me in an interview in January of 2009 about scientists experimenting on trying to induce a hibernation-like state in people: “Human trials started in 2008.”

Full review after the jump…

Posted in Books, Reviews | Tagged Ballantine Books, Carlos J. Cortes, Random House, Science Fiction, The Prisoner | 1 Response

Contest – The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston (2 copies – signed!)

Contest – The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston (2 copies – signed!)

By Jay Tomio on February 16, 2009

mystic art erasing signs death huston It’s only right that the BSC kicks off a new week with an opportunity at some signed freebies! Today we have a 2 copies of pretty dope read, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death, the latest from Charlie Huston. These copies will be signed by Huston.

Huston is the author of The Shotgun Rule, the Hank Thompson trilogy, and Joe Pit Case Books. You can read the BSC file on Huston that includes several reviews, an interview, and an excerpt. The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death was published by Ballantine Books last month. . .

Posted in Books | Tagged Ballantine Books, Charlie Huston, Mystery, Random House, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death

Book Review – The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death

Book Review – The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death

By NerdOfNoir on February 5, 2009

Author: Charlie Huston Cover Artist: Christopher Sergio Publisher: Random House Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: January 13, 2009 It must be said that The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death ain’t your typical Charlie Huston novel – whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean. Yeah, it has the blood (tons of the stuff), it [...]

Posted in Books, Reviews | Tagged Ballantine Books, Charlie Huston, Christopher Sergio, Mystery, Random House, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death

The Electric Mayhem: Ghost Wiring

The Electric Mayhem: Ghost Wiring

By Brian on February 1, 2009

In this edition of The Electric Mayhem Charlie Huston, Joe Lansdale and Brian Evenson meet up in Donald Ray Pollock’s hometown of Kockemstiff to discuss The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death needed to clean up after Leather Maiden’s Last Days.

Posted in Reviews | Tagged Ballantine Books, Brian Evenson, Charlie Huston, Donald Ray Pollock, Doubleday, Joe R. Lansdale, Knockemstiff, Knopf, Last Days, Leather Maiden, Mystery, The Electric Mayhem, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death, Underland Press | Leave a response

News – Ninja Girls at Del Rey Manga

By Jay Tomio on December 20, 2008

Girls, Ninja, Comics, a SF/F Book Imprint – how can we resist? I received this release from Del Rey yesterday. . .

Posted in Comic Books, Graphic Novels | Tagged Ballantine Books, Del Rey, Hosana Tanaka, Manga, Ninja Girls, Random House

Mail from Charlie Huston

Mail from Charlie Huston

By Jay Tomio on December 11, 2008

Not really, but we got this cool little promo postcard from Random House/Ballantine. This is promo material for Charlie Huston’s The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death: A Novel Looks like more kick ass fiction from Charlie Huston and I just wanted to share! That, and I need to acknowledge anybody who still [...]

Posted in Books | Tagged Ballantine Books, Charlie Huston, Random House, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death

News – Del Ray Manga Summer/Fall 2009 Release Guide

News – Del Ray Manga Summer/Fall 2009 Release Guide

By Jay Tomio on September 29, 2008

Press release from Del Rey Manga: NEW YORK, NY – September 27, 2008 – Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, today announced an eclectic range of new manga titles to be published in Summer and Fall of 2009. The new series acquisitions feature some of the best [...]

Posted in Comic Books, Graphic Novels | Tagged Ballantine Books, Del Rey, Manga, Random House

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