Book Review – Black Blood by John Meaney
Black Blood is John Meaney’s amazing and much-anticipated sequel to his futuristic noir SF novel Bone Song. It follows the continuing saga of Tristopolitan police lieutenant Danal Riordan, now a zombie, due to having his heart transplanted with a zombie’s black heart. The heart had belonged to the beautiful female zombie and fellow cop . . .
Book Review – Bone Song
Author: John Meaney Cover Artist: Steve Stone Publisher: Bantam Binding: Paperback Published: January 2009 The city of Tristopolis (loosely modeled after New York City), powered by the bones of the dead, much as we utilize nuclear power, is the setting for John Meaney’s Bone Song. The year is 6604, and the planet is unspecified, though [...]
Book Review – Return of the Crimson Guard
Author: Ian Cameron Esslemont Cover Artist: Steve Stone Publisher: Bantam Press Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: August 2008 Return of the Crimson Guard is the second addition of Esslemont of the Malazan series, an epic fantasy universe he shares with Steven Erikson. One of my very first reviews for Bookspotcentral (then Fantasybookspot) was Esslemont’s first effort [...]
Book Review – The Skewed Throne
Author: Joshua Palmatier Publisher: Daw Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2005 Cover Design: Steve Stone The Skewed Throne by Joshua Palmatier is a fantasy with a lot of character and is a wild ride. Varis is a thief on the streets of Dredge, in the slums of the city of Amenkor. The author does a beautiful [...]
Damon’s Weekly Noise – Oct 12 2008
This is going to be a weekly column of what I think is the best of the week through my eye’s only, and maybe the worst, as well as me carrying on about something. You will also get a taste of what we got that week for review as well and if we are looking [...]
Book Review – Reaper’s Gale
Author: Steven Erikson Cover Artist: Steve Stone Publisher: Bantam Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 2008 The seventh book in Erikson’s Malazan series. Although quite a few of our regular reviewers like Erikson this hasn’t resulted in a lot of reviews of his books. I suspect the reason for that is because they are a [...]
Book Review – Rendezvous with Rama
Author: Arthur C. Clarke Cover Artist: Steve Stone Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2006 After 2001: A Space Odyssey this book is probably Clarke’s most influential work. It was published in 1973 and won just about every science fiction major award. And rightly so, this book is a triumph of imagination. In fact, after [...]
Book Review – Wrath of a Mad God
Author: Raymond E. Feist Cover Artist: Steve Stone Publisher: Eos Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2008 Wrath of a Mad God is the conclusion of the Darkwar saga. The third of five riftwars Feist intends to cover. The past couple of years he’s been sidetracked by a number of other projects set in the connected worlds [...]
Book Review – Marseguro
Author: Edward Willet Cover Artist: Steve Stone Publisher: DAW Binding: Paperback Publication Date: February 2008 Chris Keating hated his life. He hated living on a planet covered mostly with water. He hated the smell of rotting seaweed. He hated his job and the fact he was an orphan. However, he despised the Selkies more than [...]
Book Review – Child of a Dead God
Author: Barb Hendee & J.C. Hendee Cover Artist: Steve Stone Publisher: ROC Binding: Paperback Publication Date: January 2008 Fans of the Noble Dead saga have watched Magiere discover her heritage, assist in rescuing an elven assassin, and constantly remain on the lookout for more vampires. Now, driven to recover a powerful talisman, she finds herself [...]
Book Review – Renegade’s Magic
Author: Robin Hobb Cover Artist: Steve Stone Publisher: Eos Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2008 Renegade’s Magic is the third part of Hobb’s fourth trilogy and quite a change from her works in the Realm of the Elderlings. Hobb places the Soldier Son trilogy in a more technically advanced world than her previous works. If you [...]
Book Review – Night of Knives
Author: Ian Cameron Esslemont Cover Artist: Steve Stone Publisher: Bantam Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2005 A novel of the Malazan empire by Steven Erikson’s partner in crime Ian C. Esslemont. Originally developed for use in roleplaying games, Esslemont and Erikson developed the world of the Malazan empire together and later agreed to each write certain [...]
