Boondocks Fantasy edited by Jean Rabe and Martin H. Greenberg – review
I enjoy reading short fiction; it’s remarkable how much world building and ambiance can fit into a small piece. I usually look forward to DAW anthologies, because they’re themed but the themes are loose enough to offer a wide interpretation, which leads to some very interesting stories. The news that Martin H. Greenberg had passed away [...]
Love and Rockets edited by Martin H. Greenberg – review
Love & Rockets is the latest entry in DAW’s series of anthologies. I usually look forward to these books, because they are a great way to get a hold of some quality short fiction. Martin H. Greenberg has been putting anthologies together for quite some time now, and they always have some really amazing pieces [...]
Green by Jay Lake review
Bought and paid for, Green is taken from home at a very young age to be molded into something that she would never have imagined. She does not know her name, she does not know where she came from – all she knows is that her life is no longer her own.
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Book Review – Seeds of Change
Editor: John Joseph Adams Publisher: Prime Books Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: August 2008 For the anthology Seeds of Change, editor John Joseph Adams asked a number of authors to write about paradigm shifts. Stories about the moment where the way of thinking about a subject changes radically, where old ideas are left behind and a [...]
News – Jay Lake’s intro to Template by Matthew Hughes Online
I really love the fiction of Matthew Hughes so I’m glad he gave me a heads up that the introduction to his novel Template is now posted online. The intro was written by another talented chap, Jay Lake, a Campbell Award winning and World Fantasy and Hugo Award nominated author. Check out Lake’s intro at [...]
Book Review – Escapement
Author: Jay Lake Publisher: TOR Publishing Date: June 2008 Binding: Hardcover Cover Artist: Stephan Martiniere Escapement is the sequel to Jay Lake’s critically acclaimed novel Mainspring, wherein he maps out an alternate Earth anno 1900. Lake has quite cleverly constructed a world that for the most part resembles ours yet differs in one very important [...]
Contest – win Escapement by Jay Lake (signed -3 winners)
This time around I have three signed copies of Jay Lake’s forthcoming Escapement from Tor. Synopsis: In his novel Mainspring, Lake created an enormous canvas for storytelling with his hundred mile high Equatorial Wall that holds up the great Gears of the Earth. Now in Escapement, he explores more of that territory. Paolina Barthes is [...]
Book Review – Mainspring
Author: Jay Lake Cover Artist: Stephan Martiniere Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: June 2007 “I am Gabriel,” said the angel, “come to charge you with a duty.” By the second page of Mainspring, the teenaged clockwork apprentice Hethor has been given the task of finding the Key Perilous to re-wind the world’s mainspring, which [...]
