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The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Color of Magic, published in 1983, is the first book in Sir Terry Pratchett’s enormously popular DISCWORLD series. The Disworld is a flat world which rides on the back of four elephants which ride on the back of a giant turtle named Great A’Tuin. The DISCWORLD novels are humorous, satirical and spoofy, often making fun of their own genre and various real-world cultural and political issues and institutions. Before HARRY POTTER,
June 22nd, 2012. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
Jack Nightingale was a cop, a negotiator to be specific. He becomes a private investigator after a series of strange and tragic events. Things get really weird for Jack when he finds out the parents he lost as a teenager had actually adopted him, and his real father has left him a huge mansion in the countryside. I should also mention that his biological father was an evil bastard who sold Jack’s soul to a demon, and only a few days remain till said demon comes to collect.
June 18th, 2012. Justin Blazier´s rating: 3.5 | Stephen Leather | Audio | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman
A Study in Emerald is a Hugo and Locus Award winning short story by Neil Gaiman in which he pays tribute to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.
At first Gaiman’s story appears to be a straight Sherlock Holmes pastiche as a man who appears to be Watson relates how his new friend, a consulting detective who appears to be Holmes, is being asked by Inspector Lestrade to help solve a murder mystery.
June 16th, 2012. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Neil Gaiman | Audio, Hugo Award, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
There’s just no rest for the weary. The destroyermen have had no time to search for other humans or to try to build their own community in their new parallel world because they’re still busy fighting for their lives. First there’s the Grik — the ugly reptilian species who keep attacking and trying to eat them. Then there’s the captain of the Japanese battlecruiser Amagi, who wants revenge on the destroyermen for damaging his ship. Even though they’re clearly no longer in their own world,
June 15th, 2012. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Taylor Anderson | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Fall of a Kingdom by Hilari Bell
Let the two of us end this war…
Fall of a Kingdomis the first book in the FARSALA trilogy, followed by Rise of a Hero and Forging the Sword, all set in a pseudo-Arabian land called Farsala which is attempting to resist the invasion of an ever-growing empire that bears more than a few similarities to the Roman Empire. Known as the Hrum, these invaders are committed to fighting any conquerable land for a year before negotiating for peace;
June 14th, 2012. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 3.5 | Hilari Bell | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
The men and two women of the USS Walker are worn out and homesick. They’re resigned to being stuck on a parallel world, but they at least hope to find some more humans. There’s a severe “dame shortage” so, though Commander Matthew Reddy and Nurse Sandra Tucker are in love with each other, they know they must not indulge their feelings because it might lower the morale of the rest of the destroyermen.
There’s plenty to keep them occupied meanwhile — they’ve recovered Mahan and a reconnaissance airplane,
June 13th, 2012. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Taylor Anderson | Audio | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Destroyermen: Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson
During the Second Battle of the Java Sea, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the destroyer USS Walker have been ordered to pull out of the Philippines. As they attempt to flee with several other Allied Navy ships, they’re attacked by the Japanese. The Allied ships are sunk, one by one, until only USS Walker and the crippled USS Mahan are left. When the huge Japanese battlecruiser Amagi shows up with its Kamikazes,
June 8th, 2012. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Taylor Anderson | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Death of Captain Future by Allen Steele
To get the fastest transport to a rendezvous with his new job, spacer Rohr Furland decides to take a position on The Comet. Rohr doesn’t listen to gossip, so he isn’t aware that the captain of The Comet, who styles himself Captain Future, is a nut case who can’t find a crew because nobody else will work for him. Nobody, that is, except for Jeri, a bioengineered “Superior” human who Rohr develops a crush on. Why is Jeri,
June 6th, 2012. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Allen Steele | Audio, Hugo Award | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Dragon in Chains by Daniel Fox
Most epic fantasy written in English has its basis in Western culture. While the worlds created in these books are not our world, they are generally recognizable: the use of language is comfortable, the foods are what we or our ancestors ate, the customs are basically familiar. Even mythological creatures look the way we expect them to, so that unicorns have horns and dragons have wings. When there are exceptions to these rules, the author is certain to provide an explanation, and the exception is often integral to the tale.
June 2nd, 2012. Terry Weyna and Robert Thompson´s rating: 3.5, 4 | Ben Macallan, Chaz Brenchley, Daniel Fox | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Battle of Blood and Ink by Jared Axelrod (author), Steve Walker (illustrator)
The Battle of Blood and Ink: A Fable of the Flying City (2012) is a graphic novel by author Jared Axelrod and illustrator Steve Walker set on the flying city of Amperstam. What keeps the city flying is a bit of a mystery, and one girl who hates mysteries is Ashe, who does her own investigating, writing, and publishing for her broadsheet The Lurker’s Guide. As one might expect,
June 1st, 2012. Bill Capossere´s rating: 3.5 | Comics | SFF Reviews | no 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!