Posted by Kat Hooper | Oct 25, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Red Magician by Lisa Goldstein Winner of the National Book Award, Lisa Goldstein’s The Red Magician (1982) is such an unusual fantasy novel. I read it because Tantor Audio has just released the first audio edition of the book. As the story begins, a young girl named Kisci is growing up in a small, […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Aug 16, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 4
Northwest Smith by C.L. Moore The original readers of the legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales could have had little idea of what a landmark release the November ’33 issue would turn out to be. Kicking off the magazine that month, and preceding stories by such already established veterans as Edmond Hamilton, E. Hoffman Price, Clark […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Jul 24, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 0
No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop Mankind is a creature which occupies itself predominantly in the present. Smoking, murder, alcohol abuse, poor diet, resource wastage — all of these habits and behaviors alleviate the moment but do nothing to bolster the idea a human is aware of, or concerned with, the long term existence […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Apr 18, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 1
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami I’ve seen Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase casually described as postmodern, as surreal, and as magic realism. Though it was published in 1982 (and translated into English in 1989), and though the main character is not a private investigator, I nevertheless think of it as a weird […]
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Posted by Jason Golomb | Nov 11, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 1
Stargate by Pauline Gedge “Before the beginning was the Lawmaker,” he read. “And the Lawmaker made the Worldmaker and commanded him to make according to his nature. And the Worldmaker made the worlds…” Originally published in 1982 and re-issued in 2016, Pauline Gedge’s Stargate is a sci-fi/fantasy hybrid writ large. Its universe rides the mythic themes […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Jun 21, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 0
Port Eternity by C.J. Cherryh The history, legends, and myths surrounding the man known as King Arthur are some of the most enduring and inspirational material in the English language. Like Robin Hood, Arthur’s name resonates in modern history. The number of books, fiction and non-fiction, which have been spun off the man is increasingly […]
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Posted by Brad Hawley | Nov 21, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 2
X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills by Chris Claremont and Brent Eric Anderson Marvel’s X-Men franchise is long-running and crosses into so many different titles that it’s difficult to know where to start if you know only the movies, but want to start reading some actual comics. There are many excellent titles to start with, but […]
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Posted by Brad Hawley | Jan 31, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 0
Maggie the Mechanic: The Love & Rockets Library — Locas Book 1 by Jaime Hernandez Love and Rockets is a series of comics that started in the 1980s. It was written by three brothers: Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez, and the brothers each created their own storylines, tracing a set of characters over a period […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Oct 21, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Haunting by Margaret Mahy I first read The Haunting when I was about ten or eleven years old, and now — almost twenty years later — I was stunned by how much I remembered it. Usually good books leave an imprint of enjoyment on your memory, but such is the potency of Margaret Mahy‘s […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Apr 30, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Running Man by Stephen King Ben Richards hates America’s dystopian future. Because he quit his job cleaning up atomic waste before it could sterilize him, Ben finds himself blacklisted and unemployable. He and his wife, Sheila, did manage to conceive, but their daughter now suffers from pneumonia in polluted Co-Op City. Sheila makes ends […]
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Posted by Brad Hawley | Apr 19, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
Grendel: Archives and Grendel: Devil by the Deed by Matt Wagner (writer and artist) Now that I’ve read Matt Wagner’s Grendel: Archives and Grendel: Devil by the Deed, I regret how long it took me to read any of his Grendel stories, a series of comics that have a thirty-year history (and counting). I kept […]
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Posted by Kelly Lasiter | May 17, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 6
Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin For some time I’ve been a fan of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. In the last few years, though, when my mind turns to that series, it’s usually either (a) to speculate about potential plot twists or (b) to wish the next book were […]
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Posted by Kelly Lasiter | Sep 15, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Idylls of the Queen by Phyllis Ann Karr Phyllis Ann Karr’s The Idylls of the Queen is so much more than a good murder mystery. It is a good murder mystery, but unlike an ordinary mystery, you can reread it (even knowing whodunit) without any of the fun being spoiled. The murder is one […]
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Posted by Stefan Raets (RETIRED) | Jan 16, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Swordbearer by Glen Cook The Swordbearer is an early standalone novel by Glen Cook, originally published in 1982 and re-released by Nightshade Books in 2009. If you’re a fan of Glen Cook, whose CHRONICLES OF THE BLACK COMPANY are classics of the genre, this would probably be an interesting read, as you’ll be able […]
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Posted by John Hulet | May 2, 2008 | SFF Reviews | 1
Sorcerer’s Legacy by Janny Wurts Sorcerer’s Legacy is the first book written by Janny Wurts and it’s a wonderful breath of fresh air because it’s a self-contained story. Much of modern fantasy seems bent of many volumes and epic scope while Legacy is content to be a single volume and a complete story. It is essential to […]
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