The Edge of Reason: Rationalism vs. religion Richard Oort, a police officer in Albuquerque, finds out that he is a paladin for the forces of rationality and science. He is recruited in the fight against the forces of evil: Cthulhu-esque beings from another dimension who feed on humanity’s fears and pain to break through to […]
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The Edge of Ruin by Melinda Snodgrass The Edge of Ruin (2010) is a direct sequel to The Edge of Reason, an excellent present-day fantasy novel by Melinda Snodgrass in which Chtulhu-esque beings use religion to generate emotions like fear and anger, enabling them to enter our dimension. It’s an unusual and original concept that led […]
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The High Ground by Melinda Snodgrass In the far future, humans have expanded into the universe and left Old Earth behind. But some old institutions still remain: slavery, patriarchy, the Roman Catholic church, a hereditary monarchy, and an aristocracy that descended from today’s Fortune 500. The current emperor has nine daughters and no sons. In […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Melinda Snodgrass | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
In Evil Times by Melinda Snodgrass In Evil Times (2017) is the second book in Melinda Snodgrass’s IMPERIALS saga. You’ll want to read The High Ground first. (Expect spoilers for that novel in this review.) At the end of The High Ground we left Tracy (smart low-class scholarship student) in despair when his friend/nearly lover […]
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The Hidden World by Melinda Snodgrass Stop right there and don’t read past this paragraph if you haven’t yet read The High Ground and In Evil Times, the first two books in Melinda Snodgrass’s IMPERIALS saga. The Hidden World (2018) is book three (of five total, I think) and my review can’t help but contain […]
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Wild Cards edited by George R.R. Martin Sept 15, 1946: Wild Card Day. When aliens from the planet Takis wanted to test their newly developed virus on a species that is similar to them, naturally, they brought it to Earth. Though they were thwarted by one of their own princes, a foppish alien who has […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Carrie Vaughn, David D. Levine, George R.R. Martin, Melinda Snodgrass, Roger Zelazny, Walter Jon Williams | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Aces High edited by George R.R. Martin Aces High is the second volume of George R.R. Martin’s long-running WILD CARDS anthology. In the first volume, Wild Cards, we learned how aliens from the planet Takis decided to test their new virus by using humans as their guinea pigs. In the 1960s, they let loose what has […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | George R.R. Martin, Melinda Snodgrass, Roger Zelazny, Victor Milan, Walter Jon Williams | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Jokers Wild edited by George R.R. Martin Jokers Wild (1987) is the third in George R.R. Martin’s WILD CARDS series. The WILD CARDS books are anthologies and mosaic novels set in a shared world and containing a large cast of regular characters. Authors contributing to Jokers Wild are Edward Bryant, Leanne C. Harper, George R.R. Martin, […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | George R.R. Martin, Melinda Snodgrass | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Aces Abroad edited by George R.R. Martin Aces Abroad is the fourth WILD CARDS anthology edited by George R.R. Martin. It was originally published in 1988, released in a new print edition by Tor in 2015, and released in audio format by Random House Audio in March 2016. It would be best to read the […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Carrie Vaughn, George R.R. Martin, Melinda Snodgrass, Victor Milan | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Down and Dirty edited by George R.R. Martin Jube: Hear who won the Miss Jokertown Beauty Pageant last week? Croyd: Who? Jube: Nobody. I continue to listen to the new audiobook version of the WILD CARDS books as they are released by Random House Audio. Down and Dirty, the fifth volume, was published a few […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | George R.R. Martin, Melinda Snodgrass, Roger Zelazny, Walter Jon Williams | Audio | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Ace in the Hole edited by George R.R. Martin Ace in the Hole (1990), the sixth WILD CARDS mosaic novel, is a vast improvement over the last two novels (Aces Abroad and Down and Dirty). Down and Dirty, especially, lacked cohesion due to George R.R. Martin’s lack of editorial control over his authors, something he […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | George R.R. Martin, Melinda Snodgrass, Victor Milan, Walter Jon Williams | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Inside Straight edited by George R.R. Martin The year 2008 saw the (second?) rebirth of the WILD CARDS series edited and co-written by George R.R. Martin. These are ‘mosaic’ novels — stories written by several authors and set in a shared universe. The first book, Wild Cards, appeared in 1987. Inside Straight (2008) is book 18. […]
Read MoreRob Weber´s rating: 3.5 | Carrie Vaughn, Daniel Abraham, George R.R. Martin, Ian Tregillis, Melinda Snodgrass, S.L. Farrell | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Busted Flush edited by George R.R. Martin Busted Flush is the nineteenth entry in the Wild Cards series of mosaic novels edited by George R.R. Martin. The previous book, Inside Straight is something of a new beginning for the series, a new trilogy with new characters and a couple of new writers. It’s a good point […]
Read MoreRob Weber´s rating: 2 | Carrie Vaughn, George R.R. Martin, Ian Tregillis, Melinda Snodgrass, S.L. Farrell, Victor Milan | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Suicide Kings edited by George R.R. Martin Suicide Kings is the third part in the latest reincarnation of the long-running WILD CARDS series. Together with Inside Straight and Busted Flush it forms the Committee trilogy. I guess you could consider this trilogy WILD CARDS the next generation. These books are meant to be an entry […]
Read MoreRob Weber´s rating: 3 | Daniel Abraham, George R.R. Martin, Ian Tregillis, Melinda Snodgrass, S.L. Farrell, Victor Milan | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Fort Freak by George R.R. Martin Fort Freak is the twenty-first entry in the WILD CARDS universe, a long running series of mosaic novels edited by George R.R. Martin. It is not necessary to have read the previous twenty volumes to read this one; Fort Freak works fine as a standalone. There are numerous references […]
Read MoreRob Weber´s rating: 4 | Cherie Priest, David Anthony Durham, George R.R. Martin, Melinda Snodgrass, Paul Cornell, Victor Milan | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Songs of Love and Death edited by George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois Songs of Love and Death is the third anthology that George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois have edited together. Like Warriors and Songs of the Dying Earth, Songs of Love and Death brings together some of the biggest names that SFF has to offer and they set these authors to work on […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal and Kat Hooper | Carrie Vaughn, Diana Gabaldon, Gardner Dozois, George R.R. Martin, Jacqueline Carey, Jim Butcher, Linnea Sinclair, Lisa Tuttle, M.L.N. Hanover, Marjorie M. Liu, Mary Jo Putney, Melinda Snodgrass, Neil Gaiman, Peter S. Beagle, Robin Hobb, Tanith Lee, Yasmine Galenorn | Audio, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 6 comments |
I’m reporting about Day 2 today. Read about Day One here. There were lots of interesting panels today, and it was frustrating to try to boil them down into the ones I wanted to see. My first choice was “Retelling Old Stories: The New Fairy Tales.” I’ve got all the modern fairy tale collections edited by Terri […]
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Circuit — (1986-1988) Publisher: The setting is the moon, where newfound industrial strength gives the frontier communities a chance to show independence from the Earth nations that established them. A leading constitutionalist and friend of the U.S. president, Justice Cabot Huntington is sent in to regain control. The stiff-necked judge looks forward to writing precedents for […]
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