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 [...]
Book Review – Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective
Author: George R.R. Martin Cover Artist: Dominic Harman Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2006 In Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective George R.R. Martin looks back on his impressive writing career. It contains short fiction from all phases of his career, covering more than three decades. Dreamsongs consist of 34 stories in different genres as well as [...]
Book Review – Broken
Author: Kelley Armstrong Cover Artist: Dominic Harman Publisher: Orbit Binding: Paperback Publication Date: May 2006 Broken is another book in the Women of the Underworld series, therefore to be able to follow this installment, it helps to be familiar with earlier books. Here we return to the Elena, the female werewolf, introduced in the first [...]
Book Review – His Majesty’s Dragon
Author: Naomi Novik Cover Artist: Dominic Harman Publisher: Bantam Binding: Paperback Publication Date: January 2006 If you have become as jaded as I have become regarding fantastic fiction, even certain title choices causes you to avoid or at the very least postpone when you get to a novel, a blasé conditioning one goes through after [...]
Book Review – Newton’s Cannon
Author: Greg Keyes Cover Artist: Dominic Harman Publisher: Tor Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2004 This story begins in the year 1681, with Isaac Newton, through a spectacular experiment discovering Philosopher’s Mercury. Then a few years later a dying French King takes the Persian Elixir of life so that he may continue to protect France from [...]
