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Magda Lazarus has killed Adolf Hitler’s pet wizard, the Staff, but not before the Staff stole a fragment of the powerful Book of Raziel and used magic to reconstitute a corrupted version that is now in the hands of the Reich. Dark Victory begins as the invasion of Poland is imminent, and Magda is trying to decide on her next course of action.
In the early chapters, it seemed that Dark Victory wouldn’t be as compelling as Lady Lazarus.
February 2nd, 2012. Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 3.5 | Michele Lang | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Medicine Road by Charles de Lint
Some fantasists develop gritty, realistic alternate worlds that draw in the reader. Some swoop us away on flights of gorgeous prose. Some create detailed and intricate magical systems to delight the puzzle-lover and game-player in us. And some, like Charles de Lint, create with character, tone and authorial voice an experience that invites us into the story-telling circle, suggesting we pull up a chair next to the fire, grab a schooner of ale, and settle back to hear the story.
Medicine Road is one of de Lint’s most inviting adventures.
January 27th, 2012. Marion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | Charles De_Lint | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
All Tomorrow’s Parties by William Gibson
When he was a child in an orphanage in Florida, Colin Laney participated in a research study in which he was given a drug that allows him to visualize and extract meaningful information from endless streams of internet data. Laney now has the ability to see nodal points in history — times and places where important changes are occurring. Even though he doesn’t recognize what the change will be, he “sees the shapes from which history emerges.”
Laney is now an adult who’s sick and living in a cardboard box in a Tokyo subway station.
January 26th, 2012. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | William Gibson | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Bride Wore Black Leather by Simon R. Green
The Bride Wore Black Leather starts off with John Taylor walking along Nightside’s streets on the way to his office, a place he rarely goes. At first I thought that Simon R. Green was taking his time because this is the reportedly the final NIGHTSIDE novel. As the chapter progressed, though, I realized that John Taylor the character was saying farewell, as he leaves behind one aspect of his life and moves into unfamiliar ones,
January 25th, 2012. Marion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | Simon R. Green | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Walking the Tree by Kaaron Warren
Walking the Tree is the second novel by Kaaron Warren. Previously, my only experience with Warren was her short story in Lavie Tidhar’s The Apex Book of World SF, which I thought one of the weaker pieces of the collection. The concept of Walking the Tree appealed to me a lot, though, so I decided to give it a try. It is an interesting book in many ways,
January 18th, 2012. Rob Weber´s rating: 3.5 | Kaaron Warren | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Upon receiving a review copy of Kelley Armstrong’s Hidden, I realized that I had only read a few books in her influential WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLD series — and that the ones I had read weren’t the ones starring werewolf couple Elena and Clay. However, I had no trouble becoming engrossed in Hidden and understanding what was going on.
Elena is unusual in Armstrong’s universe; she’s the only known female werewolf.
January 16th, 2012. Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 3.5 | Kelley Armstrong | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
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 follows several different point of view characters as the events that will change the community forever begin to unfold.
From the beginning,
January 9th, 2012. Marion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | John Ajvide Lindqvist | Horror | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Clockwork Rocket by Greg Egan
The Clockwork Rocket, which is the first volume in Greg Egan‘s brand new hard science fiction trilogy ORTHOGONAL, is a book with three different but equally important focal points. On the one hand, it’s the story of a young woman who also happens to be a very alien alien. On the other, it’s a novel about a planet — a very alien planet — on the cusp of tremendous social change. And, maybe most of all,
January 9th, 2012. Stefan Raets´s rating: 3.5 | Greg Egan | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Reading The Glister by John Burnside was like opening a perfectly crafted wooden box and finding inside a set of components, nested into cognac-colored velvet. Some components were made of finely worked gold and brass; some were polished wood; some were ethereal blown glass; some were made of jewels and bone. Usually, components like these fit together to form a whole: a telescope, a kaleidoscope or a theodolite. Try as I would, though, I could not get the components of The Glister to merge into one coherent whole.
January 6th, 2012. Marion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | John Burnside | Edge, Horror | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Child of Fire by Harry Connolly
Ray Lilly works for Annalise Powliss, a sort of enforcer among sorcerers, and he’s terrified of her. She wants to kill him, but she’s been forbidden to, and so is forced to settle for using him as a chauffeur and hired hand in all things magical and mundane.
On their first outing, they work together to help a family whose child has just spontaneously combusted before their eyes, ultimately dissolving into a mass of fat, wriggling, silver-gray worms. But the family doesn’t want their help;
January 6th, 2012. Terry Weyna´s rating: 3.5 | Harry Connolly | SFF Reviews | 8 comments |
Kind of you to say. I certainly like to think so!
BTW, Steve Sterner will be performing at seven films during this upcoming fest: https://filmforum.org/series/clara-bow
As far as I know, Bill, Steve Sterner is the only person who does the live accompaniment to silent movies…
And I'm positive that Kaidan will fondly remember watching these movies with his old man for the rest of his…
You bet, Marion!