Posted by Kelly Lasiter | Aug 26, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 2
Esbae by Linda Haldeman I love fantasies set at colleges, so when I heard about Linda Haldeman’s Esbae: A Winter’s Tale (1981), I had to track it down and read it. The titular Esbae is a spirit who is found wanting by some greater power, and cast down to earth. It attaches itself to an […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Oct 29, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Soul Eater by Mike Resnick Nicobar Lane is a hunter. People hire him to acquire (dead or alive) exotic species from all over the galaxy. They pay him a lot of money to do this and he’s very successful. But there’s one creature who he refuses to hunt: a creature known by different cultures […]
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Posted by Tadiana Jones | Mar 4, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 3
The Secret Countess (aka A Countess Below Stairs) by Eva Ibbotson As a Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer enthusiast, I’m always on the lookout for historical novels in that mold, with manners, a little romance and lots of deliciously witty dialogue. I previously was familiar with Eva Ibbotson solely from her 1994 children’s fantasy The Secret […]
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Posted by Tadiana Jones | Aug 25, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson Poul Anderson’s The Saturn Game, published in 1981, is a pre-Internet era exploration of role-playing games and their effect on the human psyche, which won the 1981 Nebula and the 1982 Hugo awards for best novella. On an eight-year long voyage to Saturn, one of the more popular ways for […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Nov 21, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Affirmation by Christopher Priest I’ve heard Christopher Priest’s 1981 novel The Affirmation described as regressive, an ouroboros eating its own tail, a Moeibus strip. While there is undoubtedly an M.C. Escher quality to the book — a blurring of reality — the beginning and end are simply too different to form a contiguous whole […]
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Posted by Terry Lago (GUEST) | Jul 5, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Flight of Dragons by Peter Dickinson I loved this book as a kid, and not just because it had naughty boobie pictures that had nothing to do with the text. Dickinson takes the position that Dragons actually existed, then goes from there to ask questions like: why are they not in the fossil record? […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Apr 2, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 0
Act of Love by Joe R. Lansdale Originally published in 1981, Joe R. Lansdale’s Act of Love is a serial-killer thriller. A year before Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon took us into the mind of a sadistic serial killer, Lansdale was doing it, giving us chapters in the point of view of a necrophiliac, sadistic, misogynist […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Sep 8, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 5
Little, Big: or, The Fairies’ Parliament by John Crowley “All Part of the Tale. Don’t Ask Me How…” This review is going to be well-nigh impossible to write, as the subject matter is so impossible to describe. Well, John Crowley’s Little, Big is definitely a book. That’s a good start. But the second I try to […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Oct 12, 2007 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley Despite an interesting title and a beguiling title page, I honestly found nothing exceptional about Robin McKinley’s collection of four fairytales. Whether her stories are original or retold, they are rather dull, predictable, and written with long-winded language that makes for sluggish reading. All are centered on […]
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