Ahab’s Return: or, The Last Voyage by Jeffrey Ford
Ahab’s Return: or, The Last Voyage (2018), by Jeffrey Ford, is a Locus finalist for fantasy novels, so one should keep that in mind while taking in this review, as I take a somewhat (though only somewhat) lesser view of the novel. Which happens to me surprisingly often with awards outside the Booker; probably something else to keep in mind.
The titular character is indeed that Captain Ahab of Moby Dick fame,
June 4th, 2019. Bill Capossere´s rating: 3.5 | Jeffrey Ford | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Gather, Darkness! by Fritz Leiber
By April 1943, Chicago-born author Fritz Leiber had seen around 20 of his short stories released in the various pulp magazines of the day and was ready to embark as a full-fledged novelist. Thus, his first longer work, Conjure Wife, did indeed make its debut in the 4/43 issue of Unknown, the fantasy-oriented sister magazine of John W. Campbell’s Astounding Science-Fiction. In it, a college professor, Norman Saylor, discovers that his wife,
June 3rd, 2019. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 4 | Fritz Leiber | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 7 comments |
Candace Chen, daughter of Chinese immigrants, lives in New York City and works for a book publisher (Bibles are her specialty). Photography is her hobby so, in her spare time, she takes photos of people and places in the city and posts them to her blog.
Candace is one of the last people in Manhattan after a viral epidemic rages across the globe, turning most of the world’s population into mindless automatons who get stuck doing some little rote routine until they starve. She joins up with a small group of survivors who are being led by an authoritarian guy named Bob to some place he calls “The Facility” where they can start a new civilization.
June 3rd, 2019. Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Ling Ma | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Another week, more books!
Bill: This week I read several Locus nominees: The Red-Stained Wings by Elizabeth Bear, Ahab’s Return by Jeffrey Ford, and In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey. In TV, my son and I are still enjoying The Magicians season four, and I’ ambout three-quarters of the way through Cloak and Dagger season two, which is a bit more uneven in the latter half but I’m still mostly impressed by.
Kat: My mom broke her foot so I was out of town helping her this week and only got one book read: Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World,
June 2nd, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 1 comment |
Thanos: Thanos Winsby Donny Cates (writer), Geoff Shaw (artist), and Antonio Fabela (colorist)
Donny Cates tells one of the best stories of Thanos in Thanos Wins. The book collects Thanosissues #13-18 and Thanos Annual#1, and because it starts at issue #13, I have avoided the book, not having read issues #1-12 (though I mean to since they are by one of my favorite writers, Jeff Lemire). However, a friend recommended I skip #1-12 and jump straight to this collection because it is a standalone,
June 1st, 2019. Brad Hawley´s rating: 4.5 | Comics | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
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