Hurricane Fever by Tobias Buckell
I very much enjoyed Tobias Buckell’s 2012 SF novel Arctic Rising, which was set on a near-future Earth dramatically affected by global warming. As much as I loved that novel’s main character Anika, I mentioned in my review that I wouldn’t mind reading a novel set in the same world but featuring one of its two excellent supporting characters, Vy or Roo.
Lo and behold, just about two years later, Buckell delivers Hurricane Fever,
March 17th, 2015. Stefan Raets´s rating: 4 | Tobias Buckell | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Jack of Ravens by Mark Chadbourn
I’m one of those people who is a diehard fan of anything Celtic. All you really have to do is say, “Hey, Sarah, this book is obviously inspired by Celtic lore/legend/traditions/etc” and I’m there. So when Pyr emailed me about Mark Chadbourn’s Jack of Ravens, and I saw “Celtic” in the description, I knew I had to read it. Seriously, that’s all it took. Yeah, I’m discerning like that.
Jack of Ravens is a slow burn,
March 16th, 2015. Sarah Chorn | Mark Chadbourn | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis
Honestly, I’ve never read anything like Bones & All. Camille DeAngelis makes clear from the very beginning that this is not your typical fluffy YA novel — there are real stakes, real consequences to everything that happens. It’s fascinating to watch Maren’s evolution from shy, awkward teenager to self-assured predator, like reading about the humble beginnings of a fairy-tale villain rather than the plucky prince who must vanquish her in order to fulfill his destiny.
So who is Maren Yearly?
March 16th, 2015. Jana Nyman´s rating: 4.5 | Camille De_Angelis | Horror, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 6 comments |
The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson
Scott Warden, known to most as “Scotty,” kept his wife and daughter, Janice and Kaitlin, in Thailand after the coding contracts dried up. Scotty now spends most of his time aimlessly “just living” in the ex-pat beach culture. Scotty’s broke, but at least he doesn’t deal drugs like his buddy, Hitch Paley. Drug dealer he might be, but Scotty figures that Hitch is basically a good guy, deep down.
It’s Hitch that takes Scotty along the back roads to see the first Chronolith.
The Chronolith is impressive and mysterious.
March 16th, 2015. Ryan Skardal´s rating: 4 | Robert Charles Wilson | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
The Quest for Saint Camber by Katherine Kurtz
Even though The Quest for Saint Camber is the third novel in Katherine Kurtz’s THE HISTORIES OF KING KELSON trilogy, it’s actually the sixth novel about King Kelson and it’s part of her larger DERYNI CHRONICLES. You should read the books about Kelson in this order: Deryni Rising, Deryni Checkmate, High Deryni, The Bishop’s Heir,
March 16th, 2015. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Katherine Kurtz | Audio | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We is widely recognized as a direct influence on George Orwell when composing his dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four, and there are certainly strong signs of influence in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World as well. Zamyatin edited Russian translations of works of Jack London and H.G. Wells, and We can be viewed as a reaction against the optimistic scientific socialist utopias promoted by Wells.
March 16th, 2015. Stuart Starosta and Kat Hooper´s rating: 4.5 | Yevgeny Zamyatin | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
The Bigger Bang by D. J. Kirkbride and Vassilis Gogtzilas
The Bigger Bang is a new IDW Publishing comic by D.J. Kirkbride (writer) and Vassilis Gogtzilas (art). As you can probably tell from the playful title, it’s a cosmic-scope sort of story, with a protagonist (named, um, Cosmos) who was birthed in the “Bigger Bang” that destroyed one universe, causing him to find another where he might attempt to atone for the nature of his birth.
That’s a weighty premise set against the biggest of all canvases,
March 14th, 2015. Bill Capossere´s rating: 2 | Comics | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Star Maker is perhaps the grandest and most awe-inspiring vision of the universe ever penned by a science fiction author, before the term even existed, in 1937 by the pioneering Englishman Olaf Stapledon.
Although some readers might think that Star Maker was only outstanding for its time, it remains an amazing tour-de-force today, and has clearly inspired many of the genre’s most famous practitioners, including Arthur C. Clarke, with its fountain of ideas about galaxies,
March 13th, 2015. Stuart Starosta´s rating: 5 | Olaf Stapledon | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 10 comments |
The sequel to The Magicians’ Guild, Trudi Canavan’s The Novice is book two in her THE BLACK MAGICIAN trilogy. After being mentored by the kindly Lord Rothen for a number of weeks, Sonea meets the rest of her class at the Guild as the term officially begins. Although she attempts to be friendly with them, all of her class eventually turns against her for being a lower class slum girl rather than members of the nobility like them.
March 13th, 2015. Kevin Wei´s rating: 2 | Trudi Canavan | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg
In one of Robert Silverberg’s novels from 1967, Thorns, the future sci-fi Grand Master presented his readers with one of his most unfortunate characters, Minner Burris. An intrepid space explorer, Burris had been captured by the residents of the planet Manipool, surgically altered and then released. Upon his return to Earth, Burris was grotesque to behold, resulting in one very withdrawn, depressed, reclusive and psychologically warped individual indeed. And a year later, in the author’s even more masterful The Man in the Maze,
March 13th, 2015. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 4.5 | Robert Silverberg | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
COMMENT Book #3 of this trilogy is very much a heist story, and I quite enjoyed it!
Pirate stories and heist stories... Do we ever get enough of them?
Very interesting, Ulrich! Thanks for clueing me in!
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