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Next SFF Author: Ben Aaronovitch

Month: September 2018

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Fright into Flight: This anthology gives “flight” a broad definition

Fright into Flight edited by Amber Fallon

2018’s Fright into Flight anthology, edited by Amber Fallon, contains a collection of stories written by women. Theoretically, each story deals with flight, although that definition is broad. Because this was published by Word Horde, I expected a horror anthology, but several of these stories aren’t horror, and one is straight-up fantasy. All but one of the stories is a reprint. “I Did it for the Art” by Izzy Lee, is original to this volume.

Here’s the table of contents:

“The Floating Girls: A Documentary,” by Damien Angelica Walters.


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September 11th, 2018. ´s rating: | , | SFF Reviews | no comments |

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SHORTS: Borges, McDermott, Tidhar, Peynado, Larson

Our 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. 

“Death and the Compass” by Jorge Luis Borges (1954, free online version)

When Edgar Allen Poe goes in for creating an all-divining detective, you get “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”; when Gene Wolfe does it, you get “The Detective of Dreams”; when Jorge Luis Borges does it, you end up with “Death and the Compass”. No disrespect to Poe or Wolfe,


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September 10th, 2018. , , and | , | , | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |

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The Blue Sword: Strong female lead, interesting moral conundrum

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

This, my friends, is how young adult fantasy is done. In The Blue Sword, Robin McKinley has created a world out of whole cloth and polished it until it shines. Or in this case, until it is a dusty desert full of horse riding warriors, a dwindling magic, demon barbarians invading from the north, and civilized white men invading from across the ocean. McKinley is a master of prose, and this book has stood the test of time for almost 25 years now.


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September 10th, 2018. and ´s rating: | | | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |

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Sunday Status Update: September 9, 2018

We’re reading some interesting books this week! Take a peek!

Bill: This was an excellent reading week.  Jonathan Auxier’s Sweep: A Story of a Girl and Her Monster was a 5-star MG book, lovely and bittersweet. Meanwhile, Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls was a powerful retelling of The Iliadfrom the perspective of Briseis (the “prize” Agamemnon and Achilles fought over). I’m also continuing to enjoy listening to Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.


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September 9th, 2018. | Status Update | 3 comments |

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Darkest Hour: This series is getting a bit more complex

Darkest Hour by Meg Cabot

“You really have the most alarming way, Susannah, of getting yourself into scrapes.”

Darkest Hour is the fourth book in Meg Cabot’s MEDIATOR series. It’d be best to read the previous books, Shadowland, Ninth Key, and Reunion before picking up Darkest Hour. While each short book has a stand-alone story,


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September 7th, 2018. ´s rating: | | , | SFF Reviews | no comments |

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The Hounds of Tindalos: Part one of a classic collection

The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long

In my recent review of C. L. Moore’s Northwest Smith, I mentioned in passing that the author was a member of what has come to be known as the “Lovecraft Circle” — a group of authors who not only regularly corresponded with the “Sage of Providence,” but who were encouraged by Lovecraft himself to write to one another and critique their fellows’ work. Other writers in this loose-knit fraternity included Henry Kuttner (Moore’s future husband and collaborator),


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September 7th, 2018. ´s rating: | | | SFF Reviews | no comments |

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Port of Shadows: A disappointing return to a fan-favorite series

Port of Shadows by Glen Cook

After nearly two decades, Glen Cook has finally returned to his beloved BLACK COMPANY series with an eleventh novel — Port of Shadows (2018) — set between books one and two (The Black Company and Shadows Linger, respectively). I loved this series when I read it ages ago and therefore approached news of a new addition with both excitement and trepidation, as I’ve had some bad experience with authors revisiting beloved series after a long absence.


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September 6th, 2018. ´s rating: | | SFF Reviews | 12 comments |

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Paternus: Wrath of Gods: More myths in a faster blender

Paternus: Wrath of Gods by Dyrk Ashton

Paternus: Wrath of Gods (2018) is the second book in Dyrk Ashton’s PATERNUS series, following Paternus: Rise of Gods. In that book Fiona Patterson and her would-be boyfriend Zeke were wrenched out of their fairly ordinary Ohio teenager lives and thrust into a war of gods — small “g” gods, actually the offspring of the Paternus of the title, whose past deeds form the basis of most human mythology.


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September 6th, 2018. and ´s rating: | | | SFF Reviews | no comments |

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Arabella the Traitor of Mars: Mars resists the British invasion

Arabella the Traitor of Mars by David D. Levine

David D. Levine’s THE ADVENTURES OF ARABELLA ASHBY Regency fantasy trilogy wraps up in Arabella the Traitor of Mars (2018), which, appropriately, returns us to early 1800’s colonial-era Mars, where all the action began in Arabella of Mars. The series is an engaging melding of Jules Verne-style retro science fiction with Horatio Hornblower-type naval battles in the air above Mars,


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September 5th, 2018. ´s rating: | | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |

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