The Time Weaver by Shana Abé – review
What if everything you loved, and everyone, suddenly vanished? What if it were your doing? Your future unfurled before you like a map marked with a thick black arrow drawn irrevocably, relentlessly straight toward Extinction. You never knew. You never guessed, until the end. What would you sacrifice to erase that map? The Time Weaver [...]
How To Defeat your Own Clone: And Other Tips for Surviving the Biotech Revolution by Kyle Kurpinski and Terry D. Johnson – review
Sometimes, a spoonful of humor can make science more palatable. That is, if you’re not diabetic. The important question that How To Defeat your Own Clone: And Other Tips for Surviving the Biotech Revolution poses is (the title is a giveaway) how, exactly, can one defeat his/her own clone, should the need ever arise? It’s [...]
Breathless by Dean Koontz – review
What if mathematics and Chaos Theory proved that evolution was a false theory? What if, instead, all of the animals that ever lived, including man, appeared basically as they are, full-blown, at some point in time? And what if this was proven true, today, by a new hominid-like species appearing around the globe, tens of [...]
The Electric Mayhem: Shadow Season, Jump and Revolver
In this installment of The Electric Mayhem, Brian shares a few thoughts on Shadow Season by Tom Piccirilli, Jump by Tim Maleeny, and Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick.
More after the jump…
Shadow Season by Tom Piccirilli – review
The Nerd of Noir returns with another must-read for all you basement noir crazies out there (you know who you are) in Tom Piccirilli’s Shadow Season. Piccirilli, an established horror writer, has been sneaking into mystery through the back door, and he doesn’t disappoint.
Find out why after the jump…
Steven Erikson’s Gardens of the Moon 10th Anniversary Edition – Contest (5 copies!)
We’ve been actually pulling back from contests at BSC, but I’m down with anything that allows us to talk Gardens of the Moon (review from waaay back), which has become one of those books that I have grown to love more and more because of some flaws that I initially held against it. I read books in the Malazan Book of the Fallen over and over and over, it’s just in constant rotation at the BSC seat of power. Fans of the series (who have read through Erikson’s Bonehunters and Esslemont’s Night of Knives) may want to check out an interview I conducted with Erikson from ’08, that’s a personal favorite of mine. This is where you see the battle for Pale, meet the Bridgeburners, and get introduced to what’s probably the series I’m most excited about now. Today, BSC has up for grabs 5 copies of the 10th Anniversary edition of Gardens of the Moon, published this month by Transworld.
Hop the warren and find out how to win…
Jan-ken-pon – Tomio’s Want List: Alan DeNiro’s Total Oblivion, More or Less
Tomio’s Want List is a subpostgenre of Jan-ken-pon (which has no known boundaries) that showcases items I run into that have to find here way on to my shelves, man-compound, longbox (with mylars), or deposit box. Usually, these are pretty much off the cuff, and often times (like most desires) are based on very little reason. There is reason here though, as you well know if you have had the pleasure of reading Alan DeNiro’s collection Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead, which was published by Small Beer Press, and in line with the quality you’d expect from everything they publish. Via twitter today I was led to this baby though.
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Book Review – Norse Code by Greg van Eekhout
This is a review of Norse Code by Greg van Eekhout, and published by Bantam Spectra last month.
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Book Review – Relentless by Dean Koontz
This is a review of New York Times Bestselling novelist Dean Koontz’s latest work, Relentless. The novel was published this week by Bantam.
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Book Review – The Dark Volume by Gordon Dahlquist
Gordon Dahlquist’s sequel to The Glass Books of the Dreameaters is called The Dark Volume. This title evokes several thoughts from a prospective reader. First, as the story is a tale of Glass Books of evil purpose – it could be a straightforward reference to them . . .
Book Review – Black Blood by John Meaney
Black Blood is John Meaney’s amazing and much-anticipated sequel to his futuristic noir SF novel Bone Song. It follows the continuing saga of Tristopolitan police lieutenant Danal Riordan, now a zombie, due to having his heart transplanted with a zombie’s black heart. The heart had belonged to the beautiful female zombie and fellow cop . . .
Book Review – The Treasure Keeper by Shana Abé
Shana Abé’s drakón (read: dragon) series is for people who read both fantasy and romance. While the series does have an overarching plot of the drakón vs. their human hunters, the main focus of each book is the individual relationship developing between the hero and the heroine. The books are thus correctly shelved in . . .
