Original Sin by Allison Brennan – review
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 [...]
Juliet by Anne Fortier – review
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 [...]
Transformers Exodus – Cybertronian Sausage
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 [...]
Boogeyman Nights – Stuffing the Legend
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 [...]
Wolfbreed by S.A. Swann – review
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 [...]
The Prisoner by Carlos J. Cortes – review
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…
Contest – The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston (2 copies – signed!)
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. . .
Book Review – The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
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 [...]
The Electric Mayhem: Ghost Wiring
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.
News – Ninja Girls at Del Rey Manga
Girls, Ninja, Comics, a SF/F Book Imprint – how can we resist? I received this release from Del Rey yesterday. . .
Mail from Charlie Huston
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 [...]
News – Del Ray Manga Summer/Fall 2009 Release Guide
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 [...]
