Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale With Book of a Thousand Days (2007), Shannon Hale offers a delightful retelling of the Grimm fairy tale Maid Maleen. Dashti is a mucker, a low-born girl who was born on the steppes. When her mother dies, she goes to the city to take a job as […]
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Posted by Jana Nyman | Dec 13, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 2
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It by Steve Wozniak & Gina Smith What I knew about Steve Wozniak prior to reading iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It (2007) could […]
Read MorePosted by Kat Hooper | Nov 8, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 1
A Nameless Witch by A. Lee Martinez This silly little tale is about a beautiful witch who doesn’t have a name. When she was young she was taken in by an old ugly witch who educated her in magic spells and other witchiness. Part of her education involved learning how to make herself appear ugly […]
Read MorePosted by Ray McKenzie | Nov 1, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak “Here is a small fact. You are going to die.” It is Death who speaks the novel’s opening lines. And Death himself, for the duration of Markus Zusak’s bestselling novel, will be our narrator. It is 1939 in Nazi Germany and whilst he takes away an increasing amount of souls, […]
Read MorePosted by Sandy Ferber | Jun 26, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 2
Robot Titans of Gotham by Norvell Page In my recent review of the anthology volume Rivals of Weird Tales, I mentioned that one of my favorite stories therein was the novella-length “But Without Horns,” which was written by Norvell Page and first appeared in the June 1940 issue of Unknown magazine. I also expressed a […]
Read MorePosted by Ryan Skardal | Mar 29, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 13
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon [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.] Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union is (breathe in) an alternate history science fiction noir police […]
Read MorePosted by Jason Golomb | Mar 23, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 3
Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire by Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden On a cold autumn night, under a black sky leached of starlight and absent the moon, Captain Henry Baltimore clutches his rifle and stares across the dark abyss of the battlefield, and knows in his heart that these are the […]
Read MorePosted by Jesse Hudson | Mar 11, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 0
Undertow by Elizabeth Bear Ursula Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest (1976) is a (novella extended into a) novel that features an alien planet invaded by humanity and exploited for its resources, the natives forced into labor. An open allegory regarding the United States’ involvement in Vietnam, it is a compact novel that remains focused […]
Read MorePosted by Skye Walker | Nov 4, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 3
The Fade by Chris Wooding Nations divided by vast lakes, destinations defined by stalagmites and minerals, a world without a sun: The Fade (2007) takes place in an unfathomable network of caves beneath the surface of an unknown planet. Here the reader finds a cavernous underground in the midst of jealous war. Two distinct races of […]
Read MorePosted by Ryan Skardal | Jun 22, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 1
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon Michael Chabon’s Gentlemen of the Road (2007) is a swashbuckling historical fiction about a pair of Jewish vagabonds in 10th century Khazaria. Amran is a large Abyssinian, while Zelikman is a somber doctor who explains that he does not save the lives of his patients — he only “prolongs their […]
Read MorePosted by Marion Deeds | May 20, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 6
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman Sometimes post-modernist novels, like time-travel novels, give me a headache. It’s because I’m confused. Is the writer subverting expectations with the ending, or it is just that they can’t wrap up a story? And that really shallow character, is that a flaw, or a comment on society’s […]
Read MorePosted by Kat Hooper | Jul 7, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 0
Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke After finishing The Thief Lord, my daughter and I wanted to read more Cornelia Funke (pronounced “FOONK-ah”) so we picked up Igraine the Brave, a short novel that we listened to in audio format. Igraine is a 12 year old girl who lives in a castle complete with a […]
Read MorePosted by Ryan Skardal | May 15, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 5
After Dark by Haruki Murakami 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. The bars are closing and the night’s last trains are shuttling people out of the […]
Read MorePosted by Sandy Ferber | Dec 3, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 8
The Haunter of the Ring & Other Tales by Robert E. Howard A very long time ago, when I was still in high school, Texas-born Robert E. Howard was one of my favorite authors, and this reader could not get enough of him, whether it was via such legendary characters as Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, […]
Read MorePosted by Terry Weyna | May 21, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 2
Dangerous Space by Kelley Eskridge Dangerous Space is a revelation. I had no idea these gorgeous short stories were out there. Put me on the list of people who will now read absolutely everything Kelley Eskridge writes, because if these are characteristic of her work, I want it all. Eskridge often makes creativity her subject, […]
Read MorePosted by Brad Hawley | Feb 7, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 0
Shiny Beasts by Rick Veitch (with Alan Moore & S. R. Bissette) Shiny Beasts is a 2007 collection of short story pieces dating from 1978-1994. Rick Veitch is an artist who worked with Alan Moore on his early run of Swamp Thing and eventually took over writing duties as well. Since Swamp Thing is a […]
Read MorePosted by Marion Deeds | Oct 1, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
Butcher Bird by Richard Kadrey Kadrey’s Butcher Bird was published in 2007, two years before his SANDMAN SLIM series. Butcher Bird, subtitled A Novel of the Dominion, shares some themes with its later cousin, but the shape and the tone of this book are completely different. Spyder Lee is a tattoo artist in San Francisco. […]
Read MorePosted by Steven Harbin (GUEST) | Feb 21, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 3
The Jack Vance Treasury by Jack Vance (edited by Terry Dowling & Jonathan Strahan) While I don’t think there’s any one novel or short story or even collection of Jack Vance‘s work that comes close to capturing all the best aspects of his writing, I do think that this 633-page Subterranean Press collection does a […]
Read MorePosted by Jesse Hudson | Jan 14, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Terror by Dan Simmons The Terror is based on the British vessels HMS Erebrus and HMS Terror and their voyage to discover a northwest passage in the 19th century. Using their unknown fate as a literary springboard, Dan Simmons freely fills the gap in history as his imagination allows, and in the process has created a work of historical […]
Read MorePosted by Terry Lago (GUEST) | Oct 19, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 3
The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick I must first off state that I am generally not an avid lover of the short story. There are a few writers that I think really excel in the genre and whose stuff I will read without hesitation (Edgar Allen Poe, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Arthur […]
Read MorePosted by Sarah Chorn | Jul 25, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 2
Territory by Emma Bull Emma Bull turns the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral into a romping fantasy adventure in Territory. Since I don’t know much about this period, most of the historical specifics were lost on me. For example, I can’t critique her characterization of Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday or say if she […]
Read MorePosted by Marion Deeds | Apr 12, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 0
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff Bad Monkeys, by Matt Ruff, is a funny, dark and twisty thriller. I was hooked on Page Five, when a woman who is being held in the nut-job wing of a Nevada jail says to the doctor evaluating her, “I think it all started when I figured out my high […]
Read MorePosted by Marion Deeds | Jan 9, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 0
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist Let the Right One In, by John Ajvide Lindqvist, is a bleak and chilly horror novel that evokes classic Stephen King works like Salem’s Lot. Lindqvist is a Swedish writer and the book is set in a planned community in northern Sweden, called Blackeberg, in 1981. The novel […]
Read MorePosted by Marion Deeds | Nov 27, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 4
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill Joe Hill is Stephen King’s son. Good, now that’s out of the way. 20th Century Ghosts (2007) is a prime collection of short fiction. Some stories are horror, some are literary horror and some aren’t horror at all. Hill has a strong style, a distinctive voice, and a willingness to […]
Read MorePosted by Ryan Skardal | Nov 4, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Arrival by Shaun Tan Shaun Tan’s The Arrival is a highly acclaimed graphic novel about immigration. There are no words in this graphic novel, allowing Tan to rely entirely on images to reveal the doubts and conflicts that his characters face. On his website, Tan explains that: “In ‘The Arrival’, the absence of any […]
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