The Queen of Sorrow by Sarah Beth Durst
The Queen of Sorrow (2018) is the third volume in Sarah Beth Durst’s THE QUEENS OF RENTHIA series, appearing to conclude the storylines of Queens Daleina, Naelin, and Merecot which began in The Queen of Blood and were explored further The Reluctant Queen. Renthia is a world filled with all manner of spirits, who are capable of tremendous destruction unless kept under tight control by the queen of the realm,
May 14th, 2018. Jana Nyman´s rating: 4.5 | Sarah Beth Durst | SFF Reviews | 9 comments |
More great books this week!
Bill: Much of this past week was spent finishing (finishing—yay!) final papers, now let the summer reading season commence! I read and absolutely loved Circe, Madeline Miller’s retelling/reshaping of Greek myth while One Pagan’s Strange Survivors was a solid popular science book. Currently I’m reading Darwin Comes to Town by Menno Schilthuizen, a so far fascinating look at evolution centered on urban ecology.
Jana: This week I hosted a Very Important Guest (hi,
May 13th, 2018. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 1 comment |
Arrow’s Flight by Mercedes Lackey
Arrow’s Flight is the second book in Mercedes Lackey’s VALDEMAR series. It was originally published in 1987 and has just now been produced in audio format by Tantor Audio. In the first VALDEMAR book, Arrows of the Queen, we met Talia, a young girl being raised in a repressive society who was chosen by a telepathic blue-eyed white horse to be one of the Kingdom’s Heralds. She was whisked off to the academy where she began learning the skills needed to protect the kingdom.
May 11th, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Mercedes Lackey | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Outlaws of Mars by Otis Adelbert Kline
Those readers who had been charmed by Otis Adelbert Kline’s swashbuckling sci-fi adventure The Swordsman of Mars would not have long to wait before they were treated to that novel’s follow-up thrill ride. While that first interplanetary pastiche of author Edgar Rice Burroughs had appeared as a six-part serial in the January 7 to February 11, 1933 issues of the weekly Argosy magazine, the follow-up, The Outlaws of Mars,
May 11th, 2018. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | Otis Adelbert Kline | SFF Reviews | no comments |
This year’s Nebula conference (May 17-20) will be held in Pittsburgh, and the 2017 Nebula Awards will be announced on Saturday, May 19, 2018.
Here are the finalists. Click the links to read our reviews:
BEST NOVEL:
May 10th, 2018. FanLit | Nebula Award | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 13 comments |
The Faeries of Sadieville by Alex Bledsoe
The Faeries of Sadieville (2018) is the final novel in Alex Bledsoe’s TUFA series. You’ll get more out of it if you’re read the previous TUFA novels, but it’s not strictly necessary to do so since each novel features a stand-alone story with overlapping characters.
In The Faeries of Sadieville we meet two graduate students who are dating each other; Justin, from the English department, is studying how folk music came to Appalachia,
May 10th, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Alex Bledsoe | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Strange Survivors: How Organisms Attack and Defend in the Game of Life by Oné R. Pagán
Oné R. Pagán is a university biology professor and a blogger, and both sides come out in this entertainingly informative look at the various ways life tries to, well, stay alive (i.e. not get eaten). As he says in the introduction to Strange Survivors: How Organisms Attack and Defend in the Game of Life (2018), he “wrote this book with the semi-mythical ‘interested layperson’ in mind … [so] I will not be excessively technical,
May 9th, 2018. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
At Fantasy Literature, we love fearless women!
Women are shining in every genre of speculative fiction, and it is no longer enough to say “Women are here.” Instead, #FearlessWomen everywhere are taking a stand to say “Women will thrive here.”
Highlighting major titles from bestselling authors V.E. Schwab, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Jacqueline Carey as well as titles from acclaimed and debut authors such as Mary Robinette Kowal, Tessa Gratton, Sam Hawke, and Robyn Bennis,
May 8th, 2018. Jana Nyman | Sherrilyn Kenyon | Giveaway! | 9 comments |
The End of the Day by Claire North
“I am the Harbringer of Death,” Charlie explains countless times to airport security, friends of friends, nurses, doctors, strangers in bars, passengers on trains. Because before Death, comes Charlie: sometimes as a courtesy and sometimes as a warning, but always before. Meeting people from every possible walk of life, Charlie discovers what it is to be human in The End of the Day, a genre-defying tale.
When we first meet Charlie he’s somewhere in Central America, trying to locate an old woman called Mama Sakinai.
May 8th, 2018. Ray McKenzie and Marion Deeds´s rating: 3 | Claire North | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey
Talia is not like normal 13-year-old girls. She likes to read adventure stories and she fantasizes about being a Herald for the queen of Valdemar. She does not want to get married to one of the dreary men in her patriarchal village. So, when a Companion — one of the blue-eyed white horses who belongs to a Herald — shows up without a rider, Talia is happy to help him find his way home and stunned to learn that she’s been chosen to be trained as a Herald at the academy.
May 7th, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Mercedes Lackey | Audio | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Gentlemen, I concur! (Forgive me for jumping into your convo)
The cover is amazing. I love how the graphic novel (and the review!) hewed close to the theme of "good…
I've thought about picking that one up. The artwork looks perfect.
I like the way you think, Bill. I found the second one particularly objectionable; the one with Khan. It was…
I find if I take every Trek reference out of them (the title, the character names, the ship names, etc.),…