Posted by Terry Weyna | Aug 9, 2011 | Feature | 5
Manhattan used to be a book-shopping mecca for me, with independent and used bookstores every other block. Alas, that is no longer the case, as I learned to my regret a few years ago when my husband and I tried to track down a few beloved stores. Said husband had printed out a list of […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Jul 6, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 0
Or What You Will by Jo Walton Or What You Will (2020), by Jo Walton, is an at times charming, at times frustrating work of metafiction that reads, even distanced by the novelist’s artifice, as a warmly personal, almost intimate love letter to Florence, the Renaissance, art, reading, the classics, and creativity. I’m guessing it […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Oct 14, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 1
Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard In the early 1970s, J.G. Ballard was busily creating modern fables of mankind’s increasingly urban environment and the alienating effect on the human psyche. Far from humans yearning to return to their agrarian and hunter-gatherer roots, Ballard posited that modern man would begin to adapt to his newly-created environment, but […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Feb 11, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 2
Pacific Fire by Greg van Eekhout (Our reviews may contain spoilers for the previous novel, California Bones.) Pacific Fire is the second book in Greg van Eekhout’s OSTEOMANCY series. The first one, California Bones, was the story of Daniel Blackland, son of a powerful osteomancer in a magical southern California. If California Bones charted the fate […]
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Posted by Kelly Lasiter | May 28, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
Black Pearls by Louise Hawes Once upon a time, there was a woman who was so caught up in a book that she did nothing all day but read it, from cover to cover. Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand is a gem. Louise Hawes‘ dark, sensual fairy tale retellings and Rebecca Guay‘s evocative illustrations work […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jan 18, 2023 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Giant Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Oscar J. Friend & Leo Margulies For the past five years, all the books that I have read, be they novels or short-story collections, and whether in the field of sci-fi, fantasy or horror, have had one thing in common: The were all written during the period […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Mar 28, 2022 | SFF Reviews | 0
Destiny of the Dead by Kel Kade My review of Kel Kade’s Fate of the Fallen, first in their SHROUD OF PROPHECY series, called the novel “an enjoyable if meandering invitation despite some issues.” Kade is back now with book two, Destiny of the Dead, which is similarly meandering and, honestly, a little less enjoyable, […]
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Posted by Brad Hawley | Jan 16, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 4
B.P.R.D. (Vol. 10): The Warning by Mike Mignola (writer), John Arcudi (writer), Guy Davis (art), Dave Stewart (colors), and Clem Robins (letters) B.P.R.D. (Vol. 10): The Warning, along with B.P.R.D. (Vol. 11): The Black Goddess and B.P.R.D. (Vol. 14): King of Fear, make up the Scorched Earth Trilogy. In The Warning, Lobster Johnson becomes an […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Dec 15, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 2
Couching at the Door by D.K. Broster Once again, I find myself thankful to the British publisher Wordsworth Editions, and in particular its Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural division, for turning me on to an author who I may not have ever discovered otherwise. In the past, I have written here of several other […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jun 10, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 4
Lysbeth by H. Rider Haggard In the summer of 1897, English author H. Rider Haggard took a short vacation in Holland, and just as his winter holiday to the Holy Land in 1900 would inspire him to pen no fewer than three works — the nonfiction book A Winter Pilgrimage (1901), Pearl-Maiden (1903) and The […]
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