Book Review – The House of the Stag by Kage Baker
This book has all of the hallmarks of an epic fantasy without having the usual cumbersome heft usually implied in the subgenre. The House of the Stag reads more like a myth or a fairy tale that has been updated into modern English . . .
Book Review – The House of the Stag
Author: Kage Baker Cover Artist: Tom Kidd Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: September, 2008 In Kage Baker’s satirical fantasy, The Anvil of the World, a brief encounter with powerful Dark Lord turns out to be a bit different than expected. In The House of the Stag, Baker revisits this world to tell the infamous [...]
Book Review – Majestrum
Author: Matthew Hughes Cover Artist: Tom Kidd Publisher: Night Shade Books Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2006 The back jacket copy describes Majestrum by Matthew Hughes, as “Sherlock Holmes meets Jack Vance’s Dying Earth…” H-m-m-m-m. Let’s take a look. This first person narrative chronicles the latest adventures of Henghis Hapthorn, freelance discriminator. Hapthorn is assisted by [...]
