Posted by Kat Hooper | Jul 29, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 5
Steel Beach by John Varley I hate giving up on books I plan to review but, unfortunately, this is the second one in a month that I’ve had to abandon. Steel Beach (1992) is the second in John Varley’s stand-alone novels set in his EIGHT WORLDS universe in which vastly superior aliens have kicked humans […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Jul 13, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Illearth War by Stephen Donaldson Reading The Illearth War (1978), the second book in Stephen Donaldson’s THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT, I can’t help but be reminded of The Empire Strikes Back. This is in comparison to the strong THE LORD OF THE RINGS feel exuded by Lord Foul’s Bane, the first book in the series. Both Illearth and Empire […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Dec 24, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 5
The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks I’ve read plenty of Terry Brooks‘s fantasy novels, but among his earliest works I’ve only ever completed The Wishsong of Shannara. But with news of a television adaptation of The Elfstones of Shannara scheduled to air in 2016, I figured now was as good a time as any […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Oct 6, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 3
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King I’ve avoided some of Stephen King’s more recent works, like Cell and Under the Dome, because they didn’t look like they would be my thing. Doctor Sleep was a different matter. I didn’t think it was perfect, but it had a lot of the things I look for in a King […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Feb 5, 2008 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones The Lives of Christopher Chant is set twenty-five years before the events told in Charmed Life, but was published after it in 1988. Although many would avidly insist that you must read such books in publishing rather than chronological order (just look at the debate that […]
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