Today we welcome Kameron Hurley, the author of THE WORLDBREAKER SAGA, published by Angry Robot Books. The first two volumes are The Mirror Empire and Empire Ascendant, with a third, The Broken Heavens, expected to see publication in August 2017. Hurley’s saga deals with race, gender, sex roles, war, survival, slavery, genocide and many other hot […]
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God’s War by Kameron Hurley Some reviews are harder to write than others. Take God’s War, the first novel by Kameron Hurley, an author whose blog I’ve been reading with interest. The book had a long journey getting published (which you can read about on said blog) and has now, finally, reached the shelves thanks […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED)´s rating: 3.5 | Kameron Hurley | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley So I finally got to Kameron Hurley’s The Mirror Empire, which has been hanging out on my Kindle for some time now. But with the sequel, Emperor Ascendant, due out in a few weeks, I figured it was time to pull it up. And I’m glad I did, since […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Kameron Hurley | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Empire Ascendant by Kameron Hurley I thought Kameron Hurley’s first book in her WORLDBREAKER SAGA, The Mirror Empire, was a richly imagined, ambitious novel that landed on the positive side of the ledger even if its flaws gave the book’s strengths a run for their money. Unfortunately, the flaws do a bit more than that […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 2.5 | Kameron Hurley | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley The Geek Feminist Revolution is a collection of writing by Kameron Hurley, much of which was originally published online. And at the risk of sounding curmudgeonly and persnickety, from my viewpoint the problem was they read that way. Some of that I think is in the nature of […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 2 | Kameron Hurley | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | | 18 comments |
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley “War is hell,” William Tecumseh Sherman famously said in the aftermath of the American Civil War, and Kameron Hurley’s The Light Brigade (2019), a Hugo and Locus award nominated novel, drives that point home. The brutality of a soldier’s life combines with dystopia and hellish corporate behavior, but it’s […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones´s rating: 4 | Kameron Hurley | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Fantasy Magazine was folded into Lightspeed Magazine in 2012, but it came out of retirement in October 2014 for the Women Destroy Fantasy issue, one of the stretch goals of a Kickstarter for an all-women edition of Lightspeed. I was one of the contributors to the Kickstarter, and, as my review last week revealed, I […]
Read MoreThe opening story of Issue 2 of Grimdark Magazine, “The Line” by T.R. Napper, presents a picture in nobility. You might not think that at first, as the tale concerns George, a wrestler who makes a practice of breaking his opponents’ bones; but, you soon learn, that’s the least harm he can do to end […]
Read MoreThere is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. “The Cage” by A.M. Dellamonica (2010, free online at Tor.com or purchase Kindle version) “The Cage,” a stand-alone short story by A.M. Dellamonica, was published […]
Read MoreThere is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. “Elephants and Corpses” by Kameron Hurley (May 2015, free on Tor.com, 99c Kindle version). Nev has the ability to jump from a dying body into […]
Read MoreOur weekly exploration of free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. “Report” by Donald Barthelme (1967, originally published in the New Yorker, free at Jessamyn.com (reprinted by permission), also collected in Sixty Stories) “Our group is against the […]
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