The Witches of Echo Park by Amber Benson
The Witches of Echo Park (2015) is a book that kind of has me stumped. The publisher sent me this first book in the series along with the second book. I read this one, and I’ve just kind of sat on it, wondering what to say about it. On the one hand, I loved it. It’s a unique, well written spin on what could easily have been a completely typical urban fantasy. On the other hand, I spent a good chunk of the book waiting for something to happen.
June 19th, 2017. Sarah Chorn´s rating: 3 | Amber Benson | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Our weekly exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we’ve read that we wanted you to know about.
“A Rose for Ecclesiastes” by Roger Zelazny (1963, text and audio free on EscapePod, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction). 1964 Hugo nominee (short fiction)
In this classic and much-anthologized tale of life on Mars, Gallinger, a brilliant linguist and poet with an antagonistic personality, is part of an Earth mission to study the humanoid Martian natives.
June 19th, 2017. Tadiana Jones and Kat Hooper | Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazny | Audio, Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
A Bridge of Years by Robert Charles Wilson
Tom Winter tried to find solace in a bottle when his wife left him. He lost his job and concluded that 1989 was a pretty tough year. Now, Tom is trying to make a go of it in Belltower in the Pacific Northwest. His brother has set him up with a job as a car salesman, and he has bought a house. Life seems pretty mundane, until Tom realizes that the house is a time machine that leads to New York in 1962.
Published in 1991,
June 19th, 2017. Ryan Skardal´s rating: 3 | Robert Charles Wilson | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Barsk: The Elephant’s Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen
When I put in my ARC request for Lawrence M. Schoen’s new novel Barsk, all I knew about it was that the setting involved a group of worlds inhabited by a variety of anthropomorphic space-faring animal species, with the main focus on elephants (thus its subtitle: The Elephant’s Graveyard). C’mon. El-e-phants in Spaaaaaccce! How could I resist? But Barsk is much more than a funny-but-cool premise;
June 19th, 2017. Bill Capossere and Marion Deeds´s rating: 4.5 | Lawrence M. Schoen | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
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