Book Review – Whiskey and Water: A Novel of the Promethean Age
Author: Elizabeth Bear Publisher: Roc Publishing Date: January 2009 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Cover Artist: Paul Youll Whiskey and Water is the second novel published in Elizabeth Bear’s series of the Promethean Age and should be considered as an independent sequel to Blood and Iron. The story of Whiskey and Water takes place about seven [...]
Book Review – Blood and Iron: A Novel of the Promethean Age
Author: Elizabeth Bear Publisher: Roc Publishing Date: June 2008 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Cover Artist: Paul Youll Elizabeth Bear is a very talented, imaginative and highly prolific writer, who, since publishing her first novel from 2004 (Hammered), already has 13 whole novels under her belt (though one of them, A Companion to Wolves, is co-authored [...]
Book Review – Dragon Strike
Author: E.E. Knight Published By: ROC Cover and illustrations:Paul Youll Binding: Trade Paperback Publication Date: December 2, 2008 Scattered across a continent and scarred by their harsh experiences on the path to adulthood, the three dragon siblings are among the last of a dying breed–the final hope for their species’ survival. Book four of The Age [...]
Book Review – Dust
Author: Elizabeth Bear Publisher: Bantam Spectra Publishing Date: January 2008 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Cover Artist: Paul Youll Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Arthur C. Clarke) This well-known, and perhaps even iconic, statement of Clarke’s is, in many respects, particularly pertinent to Elizabeth Bear’s new novel Dust, the first canto in a [...]
Book Review – Dragon Outcast
Author: E.E. Knight Cover Artist: Paul Youll Publisher: ROC Binding: Paperback MassMarket Publication Date: December 2007 The Age of Fire has been a wonderful set of books so far, with E.E. Knight doing a wonderful job at spinning the tale of a clutch of dragons each with their own story during the same time frame. [...]
Book Review – Gods and Pawns
Author: Kage Baker Cover Artist: Paul Youll Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: January 2007 Gods and Pawns by Kage Baker is a collection of seven short stories (five previously published) based on other novels of hers about the “Company” which further explore several of its characters; namely Lewis, Mendoza, and Porfirio. The basic premise: [...]
Book Review – Dragon Avenger
Author: E.E. Knight Cover Artist: Paul Youll Publisher: ROC Binding: Paperback MassMarket Publication Date: December 2006 Avenger allows us to follow the adventure of Wistala the dragonelle who is one of the sisters of Auron whose story we heard in book one “Dragon Champion”. We pick up right as Auron and Wistala part ways after [...]
Book Review – Dragon Champion
Author: E.E. Knight Cover Artist: Paul Youll Publisher: ROC Binding: Paperback MassMarket Publication Date: December 2005 Dragon Champion is the first book in a series by author EE Knight who is well known for his Vampire Earth series. Knight gives us main characters that are far from the norm in this wonderful genre of fantasy. [...]
Book Review – The Clan Corporate
Author: Charles Stross Cover Artist: Paul Youll Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: May 2006 The Clan Corporate by Charles Stross, the third book in the Merchant Princes series, continues to follow journalist Miriam Beckstein. In the previous installments, Miriam discovered she actually belonged to a family of “world-walkers,” a clan of sorts that lived [...]
Book Review – Hammered
Author: Elizabeth Bear Cover Artist: Paul Youll Publisher: Bantam Spectra Binding: Paperback Publication Date: December 2004 In Hammered by Elizabeth Bear, the year is 2062 and the world has changed. Civil war has broken out in the United States while China is surging forward in the arms race of the future. Canada is close behind [...]
