Swords and Dark Magic – edited by Lou Anders and Jonathan Strahan – review
I grew up reading fantasy. More than that, even, I had fantasy read to me before I could read for myself (clearly, I never had a chance). There was a point, though, in adolescence, where I stopped reading epic, heroic, sword-wielding fantasy because it all seemed so…endlessly the same. The irony of my timing (the [...]
The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel by Greg Keyes – review
The Infernal City is the first ever tie-in novel to the long-standing Elder Scrolls series of fantasy computer role-playing games. The setting is very much a traditional Western fantasy, with its pseudo-European medieval magical realm populated with various familiar fantasy races. On the other hand, it is built on a mythology, history, and lexicon which is entirely its own.
Full review after the jump…
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 [...]
Book Review – The Briar King
Author: Greg Keyes Cover Artist: Stephen Youll Publisher: Del Rey Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: January 2003 Switching it up this time to a review of the first book of one of the more worthwhile epic fantasy series being written at the moment, The Kingdom of Thorn and Bone, by Greg Keyes. Those unfamiliar with this [...]
