The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie – review
I’m taking a page from Jay’s book and re-running some old reviews from my now-defunct personal review blog. For the most part they are unchanged in content, except for removing things that no longer apply and actual editorial scouring…no, not even my prose is immune. I find it a grave oversight that our site doesn’t [...]
Lou Anders, editor of Pyr books – interview
This one’s for those of you who like to know what goes on before the book falls off the bookstore shelf into your hands. Lou Anders is the editorial director of Pyr books, as well as being the man behind many anthologies on a wide variety of topics. Over the past week or so I’ve had the pleasure [...]
Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann – review
Buck Rogers had one. Flash Gordon had one. Batman has had one throughout the years, especially in the Brave and the Bold cartoon. Tony Stark, whose second adventure bows today in theaters, certainly has one. Heck, even James Bond had one. Know what I’m talking about? Jet packs. For as much as we’re living in [...]
Blood of Ambrose by James Enge – review
This book has everything fans of high fantasy could ask for in a novel: there are evil necromancers, enigmatic wizards, dwarven smiths, a ruling dynasty at stake, and horrifically disgusting zombies. Yes, you read that list correctly. There are zombies in this one. The kingdom of Ontil is ruled by a boy king, Lathmar, who is controlled by a ruling council of advisors. One of those advisors, Lord Urdhven, turns against him and attempts to take over the kingdom. What Urdhven fails to realize is that Lathmar’s family, including his centuries-old many-times great-grandmother and his great-uncle, are willing to help Lathmar retain his kingdom and become the king he was meant to be.
Full review after the jump!
The Silver Skull by Mark Chadbourn – review
In its better moments, The Silver Skull reminds me of Lynch’s Locke Lamora or Howard’s Solomon Kane. Swyfte and his cohorts battle a vicious array of cut-throats, Spanish spies, and unholy opponents over land and sea in a storm of shifting allegiances that brings both England and her defenders to the brink of destruction.
Full review after the jump…
Book Review – Darkest Hour by Mark Chadbourn
I recently reviewed World’s End, the first installment of Mark Chadbourn’s Age of Misrule trilogy. This is a review of the second book in that series Darkest Hour, published by PYR.
Read the review after the break . . .
Book Review – The Stormcaller by Tom Lloyd
The Stormcaller is the debut fantasy novel of Tom Lloyd. It is the first book in a projected five-part series called The Twilight Reign.
Long ago, the gods created the “white-eyes” to rule the world of man. Born of normal human parents, the white eyes are gifted with inhuman strength, an innate affinity for magic, and the charisma to lead armies and nations- and cursed by a terrible rage that threatens to consume them . . .
Book Review – World’s End by Mark Chadbourn
World’s End by Mark Chadbourn is the first book in the Age of Misrule trilogy. The book was first published in the UK in 1999 but now Pyr is releasing all three in with about a month between them for the American market….
Book Review – Brasyl by Ian McDonald
A while ago I read McDonald’s collection Cyberabad Days, short fiction set in the same future India as his 2004 novel River of Gods. I was very impressed with this collection, so I decided to have a go at Brasyl. A novel that has been nominated for this year’s nebula award got to have something going for it. Because of the way this book was written I found it very hard to write a spoiler free review on it. If you haven’t read this book yet but advised there is probably a few things in the text you don’t want to know about yet.
News – read Crooked Letter by Sean Williams free online!
NY Times Bestselling novelist Sean Williams has announced that his novel Crooked Letter is now available for readers to download for free and read via PDF. This is the first in his Books of the Cataclysm series. . .
Book Review – End of the Century
Author: Chris Roberson Cover Artist: Dan Dos Santos Publisher: Pyr Books Binding:Trade Paperback Publication Date: Jan. 2009 With Chris Roberson’s latest novel, End of the Century, you get three novels in one. The good news is each of the three story lines are interesting and entertaining in their own right, and when the disparate charcters [...]
