The Elfin Ship by James P. Blaylock Audible has recently put several of James P. Blaylock’s novels in audio format, so I’m giving a few of them a try. The Elfin Ship, first published in 1982, is the first book in Blaylock’s BALUMNIA trilogy about a whimsical fantasy world filled with elves, goblins, dwarves, wizards, […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | James P. Blaylock | Audio | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Digging Leviathan by James P. Blaylock The Digging Leviathan is the first book in James P. Blaylock’s LANGDON ST. IVES/NARBONDO series. I’ve been reading these out of order, which doesn’t seem to matter. The books have some overlapping characters, settings, and/or concepts, but each stands alone. The Digging Leviathan features two teenage boys, Jim […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | James P. Blaylock | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
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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Lord Kelvin’s Machine by James P. Blaylock James P. Blaylock returns to Victorian England in another steampunk adventure with scientist Langdon St. Ives and his nemesis, Dr. Ignacio Narbondo. Lord Kelvin’s Machine contains three related stories which each feature a fictional infernal device created by inventor Lord Kelvin. I listened to the excellent audio version […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | James P. Blaylock | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
The Ebb Tide by James P. Blaylock 19th-century London. A quiet evening among more or less renowned gentleman, including the gifted scientist-explorer Langdon St. Ives, at their favorite tavern is interrupted by word that a map to a missing mysterious device has been found. In no time, as chronicled by St. Ives’s cohort Jack Owlesby, […]
Read MoreRob Rhodes´s rating: 3 | James P. Blaylock | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs by James P. Blaylock Langdon St. Ives returns in The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs, James P. Blaylock’s latest Langdon St. Ives Adventure. St. Ives is described as “the greatest, if largely unheralded, explorer and scientist in the Western World … piecing together a magnetic engine for a voyage […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal and Terry Weyna´s rating: 1 | James P. Blaylock | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Zeuglodon: The True Adventures of Kathleen Perkins, Cryptozoologist by James P. Blaylock Eleven year old Kathleen Perkins considers herself a scientist — a cryptozoologist, to be exact. She studies legendary animals. According to Kathleen, “legendary” just means that they don’t appear very often. (“You can hardly blame them.”) Kathleen’s mother disappeared in a submersible while […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | James P. Blaylock | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The Aylesford Skull by James P. Blaylock James P. Blaylock is most famous for being a protégé of Philip K. Dick and, along with his friends K.W. Jeter and Tim Powers, developing the steampunk genre of fantasy fiction in the 1980s. Blaylock’s most popular steampunk stories take place in Victorian England and feature gentleman inventor […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | James P. Blaylock | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The Adventure of the Ring of Stones by James P. Blaylock The Adventure of the Ring of Stones is one of several novellas written by James P. Blaylock that Subterranean Press has published. Each of these is a stand-alone steampunk adventure featuring Langdon St. Ives, the gentleman scientist/adventurer who stars in Blaylock’s LANDGDON ST. IVES […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | James P. Blaylock | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Beneath London by James P. Blaylock James P. Blaylock’s stories are an acquired taste, I think. Or maybe it’s just that the reader needs exactly the right combination of quirks and proclivities to truly appreciate them. I am that reader. Not all the time, but regularly enough to recognize when my mood would benefit from […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | James P. Blaylock | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Land of Dreams by James P. Blaylock James P. Blaylock is a fabulist, a teller of magic realist tales that reframe our everyday world in more colorful, fanciful, sinister, and whimsical ways. His style and themes often overlap with the works of Tim Powers and they have collaborated on several stories and even have shared […]
Read MoreStuart Starosta´s rating: 4 | James P. Blaylock | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
The Last Coin by James P. Blaylock Andrew and Rose Vanbergen have recently purchased a California inn which they are fixing up and getting ready for guests. They live in the inn along with aging Aunt Naomi, her numerous cats, and her companion, Mrs. Gummage. The Vanbergens have only one real guest so far — […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | James P. Blaylock | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Winter Tides by James P. Blaylock I was disappointed in Winter Tides, though it’s probably not fair to blame James P. Blaylock for my disappointment. It’s not his fault the cover copy doesn’t accurately describe the novel’s actual subject matter. It’s also not his fault I’m a big enough ballad geek that when I see […]
Read MoreKelly Lasiter´s rating: 3 | James P. Blaylock | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Steampunk edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer Steampunk is an anthology of, well, steampunk stories, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. If you hurry, you can still get to this first anthology before the second one, Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded, appears in mid November. Based on the quality of the stories in this collection, I […]
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Wings of Fire edited by Jonathan Strahan & Marianne S. Jablon I don’t like dragons. This is probably not the first sentence you’d expect to find in a review of Wings of Fire, an anthology devoted exclusively to dragon stories, but I thought it best to get it out of the way right from the […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED)´s rating: 4 | Anne McCaffrey, C.J. Cherryh, Charles De-Lint, Elizabeth Bear, George R.R. Martin, Holly Black, James P. Blaylock, Jane Yolen, Jonathan Strahan, Lucius Shepard, Margo Lanagan, Michael Swanwick, Naomi Novik, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Patricia McKillip, Peter S. Beagle, Roger Zelazny, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le-Guin | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
13 Phantasms — (2000) Short stories. Publisher: The first short story collection from Philip K. Dick Award-winning author James Blaylock features sixteen thought-provoking forays into the fantastic — from a tale of alien influence on an ordinary neighborhood to the story of one man’s self-destructive obsession with a dragon. In For A Penny — (2003) […]
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The Devils in the Details — (2003) Short stories. Publisher: Collects three original short stories, ”Through And Through” by Powers, ”The Devil In The Details” by Blaylock, and ”Fifty Cents” a collaboration by both authors together. Plus a foreword by Powers and an afterword ”Mexican Food” by Blaylock (this afterword comes in the form of […]
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