Now winding down his hectic promotion schedule, Stephen Aryan joins us at Fantasy Literature to talk about his debut fantasy novel, Battlemage, his literary influences, and to tease us about what may be in store for the sequel, Bloodmage.
Three random commenters, two with a US address and one with a UK address, will win a copy of Battlemage. Start your comment with (US) or (UK) according to where you live to enter the giveaway, and please welcome, Stephen Aryan!
João Eira: Hi Stephen,
October 6th, 2015. João Eira | Stephen Aryan | Author Interviews, Giveaway! | 32 comments |
Raising Caine by Charles E. Gannon
Neapolitan ice cream with its three stripes of flavor, vanilla, chocolate and strawberry, was a favorite in my house when I was growing up. Charles E. Gannon’s latest novel Raising Caine reminds me of that. Do you like rollicking high-tech military SF? Get yourself a bowl. You want multi-planetary space opera with unusual environments and nonhuman exo-sapients? Dish up. You want a book that makes you think about the nexus of biological evolution and social evolution? Grab a spoon,
October 6th, 2015. Marion Deeds´s rating: 4 | Charles E. Gannon | SFF Reviews | 10 comments |
Empire Ascendant by Kameron Hurley
I thought Kameron Hurley’s first book in her WORLDBREAKER SAGA, The Mirror Empire, was a richly imagined, ambitious novel that landed on the positive side of the ledger even if its flaws gave the book’s strengths a run for their money. Unfortunately, the flaws do a bit more than that in the sequel, Empire Ascendant, leading to an overall weaker second effort.
The Worldbreaker setting is a multi-verse with parallel worlds that,
October 6th, 2015. Bill Capossere´s rating: 2.5 | Kameron Hurley | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Sounds like weird good fun, Sandy.
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