Posted by Tadiana Jones | Dec 18, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 12
Reposting to include Maron’s new essay. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Neverwhere is a novel that improved dramatically for me on reread, which actually was a surprise to me. I originally read it about six years ago when, in an odd twist worthy of London Below, it mysteriously appeared one day on my clunky Kindle 2, without […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Jan 10, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 0
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson X follows his girlfriend, Val, to Antarctica, only to learn that she is dumping him. A mountaineer, Val becomes an expedition leader while X becomes a grunt. While driving a convoy, one of his vehicles is hijacked, which is odd enough that the American Senator Phil Chase sends one of […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Sep 5, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Five Sisters by Margaret Mahy You always know you’re in for a magical, whimsical treat when reading something by Margaret Mahy, one of New Zealand’s most best-loved children’s authors. The Five Sisters (1997) is no exception, recounting the marvellous adventures of five paper dolls with linked hands. On a hot summer day Sally entreats […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Jul 3, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 0
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami Haruki Murakami is a celebrated novelist, but Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche is a work of non-fiction about the 1995 sarin gas attack on Tokyo’s subways carried out by the Aum Shinrikyo cult. In five separate locations, cultists simultaneously […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Feb 16, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 5
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami At first glance, Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is about Toru Okada, a legal assistant who has given up his job in the hope of finding a more fulfilling purpose. Though happily married, his cat, Noboru Wataya, has gone missing. If a missing cat sounds too straightforward […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Jun 1, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre In 1998, Vonda McIntyre’s sumptuous fantasy The Moon and the Sun won the Nebula award for Best Novel. Set in the court of King Louis the XIV of France, this fantastical alternate history asks questions about the nature of humanity, divine right, and the power of […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Feb 20, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 0
Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb Batman: The Long Halloween (1997) takes place soon after Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One (1987) in chronology. Batman is still in his early days of crime-fighting, while Captain Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent are trying to combat corruption in the police force and courts. This book […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Jul 19, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 4
Warp by Lev Grossman Hollis Kessler has just finished college, and now he’s coasting. He has neither purpose nor direction and can only tie everything he sees into a pop culture web of references. When he sees a woman, for example, he and his friends will immediately tell her what famous woman she resembles. The […]
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Posted by Terry Lago (GUEST) | Mar 8, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Night Watch by Sean Stewart Sean Stewart is one of those writers I used to buy sight unseen (before he unfortunately dropped out of writing novels and decided to devote his time to writing interactive online games). His books tend to be very character driven, something I personally like, and he has an individual […]
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Posted by Kelly Lasiter | Nov 23, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt [At The Edge of the Universe, 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. Today we have two reviews of A.S. Byatt’s The Djinn in the […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Jul 7, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 4
…Where Angels Fear to Tread by Allen Steele Allen Steele promised himself he’d never write a time-travel story, but nevertheless, here it is. In his introduction to this audio version, he explains that he didn’t want to write about something he thought was impossible, but one of his friends challenged him to write a story […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | May 28, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 2
Press Enter by John Varley IF YOU WISH TO KNOW MORE PRESS ENTER ■ Victor Apfel, a lonely middle-aged veteran of the Korean War, gets a recorded phone call asking him to come to his reclusive neighbor’s house to take care of what he finds there. The voice promises that he’ll be rewarded. Victor would […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Mar 7, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 0
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley Can a beast who loves roses so much be so very terrible? It’s been years since I read and reviewed Robin McKinley’s Beauty, her first rendition of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale. Despite the book’s popularity, I wasn’t particularly moved by it, and ended my review saying that […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Jan 14, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 0
Shade’s Children by Garth Nix Garth Nix published Shade’s Children in 1997. Shade’s Children is a complete book, not part of a series. It reads like a really well-made B movie. It isn’t terribly deep, it doesn’t take itself too seriously, just provides a decent action adventure. In the near future, a cataclysmic “Change” made […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Nov 26, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
Bearskin by Howard Pyle Howard Pyle is best known as the writer of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, a book that’s widely considered to be the definitive compilation of the Robin Hood ballads into a cohesive whole. Though that’s his most famous work, he also wrote two anthologies of fairytales: Pepper & Salt and […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Jul 29, 2009 | SFF Reviews | 0
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine Retold fairytales, in which the characters and plots of traditional stories are explored in more depth, or told from an unexpected point-of-view, are a dime a dozen these days. But one stands out from the rest, and that is Gail Carson Levine’s Ella Enchanted, which takes the story of […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Jun 18, 2009 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Iron Ring by Lloyd Alexander The trademark feature of Lloyd Alexander’s storytelling is to choose a cultural background and weave his own story into the already existing mythology; his most famous example of this is of course The Chronicles of Prydain, in which his own story and characters were melded with the myths and […]
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