Empire of Grass by Tad Williams
OK, first of all, I’ve got to give Empire of Grass (2019) an automatic four stars just because it actually has a “previously in Osten Ard” prologue. I mean, seriously people. TV shows give us a recap of what happened six days of real time and an hour of episode-time ago, and you can’t offer up a damned reminder of what happened a year or two (or five!) and six hundred pages ago? Really? So props to Tad Williams for taking pity on us hapless readers.
May 3rd, 2019. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Tad Williams | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Golden State by Ben H. Winters
Here’s another frightening alternate history thriller by Ben H. Winters. If you loved his 2016 Underground Airlines, like I did, you’ll want to give Golden State (2019) a try. It’s set in a near-future California (or some part of California) where lying has been criminalized due to the fall-out from the disastrous events that occurred when certain leaders of the United States kept deceiving the citizens. (I will say that one good thing about the current US administration is that it’s providing a wealth of fodder to speculative fiction authors!)
To uphold the truth,
May 3rd, 2019. Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Ben H. Winters | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay
I confess that I always dread just a little bit reviewing a new Guy Gavriel Kay novel. Not because I’m concerned it won’t be any good; Kay writing a bad book would have to be on anyone’s list of Impending Signs of the Apocalypse. But because what makes his books not just good but stand-out good is so damn ineffable.
Granted, not solely so. I can easily toss off a host of tangible, well-crafted elements, all the usual suspects: fascinatingly rich characters,
May 2nd, 2019. Bill Capossere and Tadiana Jones´s rating: 5 | Guy Gavriel Kay | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Emma Newman continues her PLANETFALL series with Atlas Alone (2019), which takes place after Planetfall, After Atlas, and Before Mars. In fact, two of Atlas Alone’s characters will be immediately recognizable to those who have already read After Atlas, and one of those characters, in particular,
May 2nd, 2019. Jana Nyman´s rating: 4.5 | Emma Newman | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Roswell, New Mexico, the CW.I watched the first season of the CW’s Roswell, New Mexico, and I have Thoughts. I’m a sucker for “aliens among us” stories, so this reboot of the tale was a natural for me. Am I embarrassed to admit that I sometimes watch the CW? I’m not. I’m not their demo, but I know a few people in my age group who watch it too. It’s like we’re aliens hiding in plain sight among their viewership.
In 1999, the CW tried a show called Roswell, based on the YA series ROSWELL HIGH by Melinda Metz.
May 1st, 2019. Marion Deeds | Film / TV | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Sanctuary (2005) is the third book in Mercedes Lackey’s DRAGON JOUSTERS quartet. You need to read Joust and Alta first. There will be spoilers for those first two books in this review of the third.
Vetch has come a long way. When we first met him in Joust, he was the servant of a cruel master in his home country of Alta.
May 1st, 2019. Kat Hooper´s rating: 2 | Mercedes Lackey | Audio | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Planetfall, the first science fiction offering from Emma Newman, is about a colony of humans who left Earth to follow Suh, an alleged prophet who received a supernatural message giving her the coordinates of an unknown distant planet where she was supposed to travel to receive instructions about God’s plans for humanity. Suh and her best friend Ren, a brilliant geneticist and engineer, gathered a team of like-minded believers and they landed on the planet 22 years ago.
May 1st, 2019. Kat Hooper, Jason Golomb, Marion Deeds and Jana Nyman´s rating: 3 | Emma Newman | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
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