Posted by Kelly Lasiter | Aug 5, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 5
Yarrow by Charles de Lint I’d been meaning to read Yarrow (1986) for years. I loved Charles de Lint’s Memory and Dream, in which he tells the story of a painter touched by the Otherworld. And I’m a writer (or at least a wannabe one), not a visual artist, so I figured, “if I liked […]
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Posted by Kate Lechler | Aug 19, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 0
Yorath the Wolf by Cherry Wilder Warning: May contain spoilers for A Princess of the Chameln One of the mysteries laid out in Cherry Wilder’s A Princess of Chameln is the identity and whereabouts of Aidris’s cousin, the child of Elvedegran, her mother’s sister and the queen of Mel’Nir. The common understanding is that, because […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Feb 10, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Gold Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson Jim McPherson is unsatisfied with the future. Unable to find steady, well-paid work, Jim mostly spends his time partying and casually hooking up with random women. Jim’s family is of small comfort to him since he spends most family dinners enduring his father’s many complaints about how Jim […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Aug 28, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 4
Damiano’s Lute by R.A. MacAvoy Damiano’s Lute is the second book in R.A. MacAvoy’s DAMIANO trilogy, which takes place in Renaissance Italy. In the first book, Damiano, we met a young man named Damiano Delstrego who was feeling befuddled because he was both a witch and a Christian. He had left his village with his […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Mar 22, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 0
Homunculus by James P. Blaylock “Does the night seem uncommonly full of dead men and severed heads to you?” Langdon St. Ives is a man of science and a member of the Royal Society. With the help of his dependable and discreet manservant, St. Ives prefers to spend his time secretly building a spaceship in […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Oct 20, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay It’s been 1½ years since I read The Summer Tree, Guy Gavriel Kay’s first novel and the first in his Fionavar Tapestry. I mentioned in the review for that book that I’m an adoring fan of Kay’s later stand-alone novels but that I found The Summer Tree derivative […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Sep 22, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 2
Count Zero by William Gibson They plot with men, my other selves, and men imagine they are gods. Several years have passed since Molly and Case freed the AI who calls himself Neuromancer. Neuromancer’s been busy and now his plots have widened to involve several people whom we meet in Count Zero: Turner is a […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Jan 16, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 4
Shadows Linger by Glen Cook “Hard science fiction” focuses on the science of the story, often at the cost of character and plot. “Hard-boiled fiction” often features a cynical, jaded protagonist steadily battling against the forces of evil, but making little overall progress. The Black Company books are often categorized as military or dark fantasy, […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Nov 8, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
Keeper of the Keys by Janny Wurts In this second episode of THE CYCLE OF FIRE, Ivainson Jaric witnesses some crucial history: how his father the Firelord and Anskiere the Stormwarden, both Vaere-trained sorcerers, bound the demons at Elrinfaer; how his father went mad and betrayed Anskiere; and how, though the demons were eventually bound, […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Jul 23, 2009 | SFF Reviews | 7
Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock The wood sucks at the mind, it sucks out the dreams. Many times I don’t like sequels because there’s nothing new to learn. Authors tend to give us all of their world-building in the first novel, so I’m often bored by a sequel. But Lavondyss blew my mind. It is, I […]
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