Posted by Kat Hooper | Oct 26, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 8
Phule’s Company by Robert Asprin Until I picked up Phule’s Company, I hadn’t read anything by prolific author Robert Asprin. I hadn’t planned to, either, but Tantor Audio is producing his PHULE’S COMPANY series in audio format, so I figured I’d give the first book a try. I liked it well enough to ask them […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Feb 18, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan Years ago I read the Wheel of Time series up through book 10. Now it’s late 2008, Robert Jordan has passed on, and we’re expecting the last Wheel of Time book, A Memory of Light in about one year. Brandon Sanderson will be writing it with the […]
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Posted by Tim Scheidler | Feb 4, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 5
Dragon Wing by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman The Margaret Weis/Tracy Hickman novels make up one of those corners of the Fantasy genre that you either enjoyed in your teens (and remember fondly)… or you didn’t. I have to admit that I’m of the latter camp, and while I strongly suspect that there was a time when […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Oct 16, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story by Stephen Donaldson Though better known for his ongoing epic fantasy series, THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT, THE UNBELIEVER, Stephen Donaldson has also taken a foray into science fiction. The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story is the first in THE GAP CYCLE and a very difficult read […]
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Posted by Tim Scheidler | Jul 8, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 2
Homeland by R.A. Salvatore R.A. Salvatore’s brooding, noble hero Drizzt Do’Urden is almost inarguably the most popular character in the FORGOTTEN REALMS universe (which is to say, the Dungeons & Dragons tie-in novels). It has become a general joke through the years that half the new D&D players of the world incorporate something of the […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Nov 15, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 0
Lens of the World by R.A. MacAvoy Nazhuret was an ugly half-breed orphan when he started life at an exclusive military school, but now he’s someone important. So important, in fact, that the king has asked him to write his autobiography. Who is this man who has fascinated a king, what is he now, and […]
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Posted by Rob Weber | Jan 28, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 5
Black Trillium by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, Andre Norton At first glance, Black Trillium looks like an interesting project: three leading female authors of speculative fiction — Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May and Andre Norton — writing a book together. After having read it, I don’t think the result is a resounding success. It still […]
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Posted by Charles Tan (GUEST) | Jul 6, 2009 | SFF Reviews | 0
THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES Vol 1: BloodList, LifeBlood, BloodCircle by P.N. Elrod The Vampire Chronicles compiles the first three books in P.N. Elrod’s series featuring Jack Fleming who, in case you haven’t deduced by the title, is a vampire. What makes this series different from most other recent vampire novels is that Elrod combines an old […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Jun 16, 2008 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Steps up the Chimney by William Corlett The Steps up the Chimney is the first in four books that accumulate into The Magician’s House Quartet, revolving around three children who come to stay at their uncle’s strange house, and Stephen Tyler, a time-traveling wizard who befriends the children on their stay at Golden Valley. […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | May 5, 2008 | SFF Reviews | 6
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice Although Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles are undoubtedly her most famous and best-selling novels, there is much to be said for her witch trilogy: The Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Although none of the characters who populate The Witching Hour are quite as memorable as her vampires, the plot […]
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Posted by Guest | Jun 15, 2007 | SFF Reviews | 0
Lion of Macedon by David Gemmell The dearly-departed David Gemmell was, in his lifetime, acknowledged as a master of the heroic fantasy, and if you want any proof of that, read Lion of Macedon. The tale begins in Sparta in the period after the end of the interminable Peloponnesian wars, when Sparta had begun to […]
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