Is it too late to wish you a Happy New Year?
If you’re anything like me your new year resolutions may have already fallen by the wayside. In fact, is it just me, or is there an end of January slump in the air?
But chin up! All the signs suggests they’ll be plenty of excellent fantasy literature in the year ahead. Here are the books we can’t wait for in 2017.
Hover over the covers to see what our reviewers said about each book.
No cover yet: Saladin Ahmed‘s The Thousand And One.
January 19th, 2017. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 45 comments |
I have a strange relationship with books by Kate Mosse. On the one hand, I love the atmosphere and descriptive qualities of her work — it transports you to the south of France in vivid prose; filled with the sights, sounds and smells of another time and place. She clearly loves the history and ambience of the Languedoc, and every page is filled with sensory detail.
On the other hand, Mosse’s plots are slow and rambling, packed full of extraneous details and unnecessary subplots.
January 19th, 2017. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Kate Mosse | Edge | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
This Year’s Class Picture by Dan Simmons
Sci-fi and horror master Dan Simmons has only one real character in this short story: Ms. Geiss, dedicated fourth-grade teacher extraordinaire. She seems to be one of the very few remaining humans following the frequently mentioned, but never-explained, “Tribulations” that had some role in creating an environment where zombies roam the planet.
This Year’s Class Picture opens rather bluntly:
Ms. Geiss watched her new student coming across the first-graders’ playground from her vantage point on the balcony of the school’s belfry.
January 19th, 2017. Jason Golomb´s rating: 4 | Dan Simmons | Horror, Short Fiction, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
so you're saying I should read it? :)
As a native New Yorker, I love the idea of the city being filled with canals and no skyscrapers! And…
How did I miss this? Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
I guess that is true, Marion. And when it comes to "You Only Live Twice," I saw the movie TWICE…
You managed to work in your two loves; vintage fiction and films!