Posted by Ray McKenzie | Jun 26, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 3
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman The bad news for the world is this: the apocalypse is nigh and all of humanity will soon face their final judgement. The good news? A Bentley-driving demon and an angel who is ‘gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide’ have decided that they rather […]
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Posted by Ruth Arnell (RETIRED) | Mar 15, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 3
How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy by Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card is an award-winning author of dozens of science fiction and fantasy books, including the Hugo and Nebula award winning Ender’s Game. So who else would you turn to for instruction on how to write a science fiction and fantasy novel? I’m […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Jan 29, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman While on vacation in Key West, John Baird, a Hemingway scholar, meets a conman named Castle in a bar. After telling Castle about Hemingway’s missing manuscript, Castle suggests that they forge it and make a lot of money. Baird refuses, of course, but Castle enlists Baird’s wife Lena and […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Aug 23, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Madness Season by C.S. Friedman I am quickly becoming a fan of C.S. Friedman. Audible Frontiers has recently produced all her novels in audio format, so I snatched them up and I’m happy I did. Her science fiction is original, imaginative, and super smart. In The Madness Season, a man named Daetrin is old […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Nov 25, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 3
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton In our Edge of the Universe column we review mainstream authors that incorporate elements of speculative fiction into their “literary” work. However you want to label them, we hope you’ll enjoy discussing these books with us. It’s difficult to talk about Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, though not because the novel’s plot […]
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Posted by Kelly Lasiter | Jul 30, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 2
Horses of Heaven by Gillian Bradshaw Gillian Bradshaw’s Horses of Heaven is a historical fantasy set in a place and time far from fantasy’s beaten path: central Asia in 140 B.C. It takes place in the kingdom of Ferghana, which was once on the eastern fringe of Alexander’s empire. Now, Alexander is long dead and […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Jun 17, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 7
Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt [In our Edge of the Universe column, we review mainstream authors that incorporate elements of speculative fiction into their “literary” work. However you want to label them, we hope you’ll enjoy discussing these books with us.] An historical mystery, a bittersweet love story, an exploration of myths and fairytales, a tribute […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | May 17, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Difference Engine by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, two major SciFi powerhouses, joined forces to produce The Difference Engine, a classic steampunk novel which was nominated for the 1990 British Science Fiction Award, the 1991 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1992 John W. Campbell Memorial Award and […]
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Posted by Amanda Rutter (guest) | May 23, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause entwines the two stories of Zoe and Simon, chapter by chapter. We start with Zoe, a lonely girl who is struggling with the steady decline of her mother to cancer and the loss of her best friend who is moving to […]
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Posted by Ruth Arnell (RETIRED) | May 22, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
Jack of Kinrowan by Charles de Lint Jack of Kinrowan is actually two books — Jack the Giant Killer and Drink Down the Moon — in an omnibus edition. Jack the Giant Killer served as de Lint’s volume in the excellent Datlow and Windling edited series of modern retellings of classic fairy tales, as it […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Feb 16, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie I confess that I’ve read nothing by Salman Rushdie before, and any knowledge I have of him stems from the controversy that surrounds him. Most are probably well aware of this already, but in 1988 his novel The Satanic Verses was published, resulting in a call […]
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Posted by Rob Rhodes | Aug 27, 2007 | SFF Reviews | 4
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay Tigana is a masterpiece. It is difficult to summarize the plot, for so much of the story unfolds organically — indeed, as a near-perfect tainflower — that one fears to spoil the pleasure of becoming swept up in the narrative. That said, the tale concerns the Palm, a mythic penninsula […]
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