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The Outlaws of Mars by Otis Adelbert Kline
Those readers who had been charmed by Otis Adelbert Kline’s swashbuckling sci-fi adventure The Swordsman of Mars would not have long to wait before they were treated to that novel’s follow-up thrill ride. While that first interplanetary pastiche of author Edgar Rice Burroughs had appeared as a six-part serial in the January 7 to February 11, 1933 issues of the weekly Argosy magazine, the follow-up, The Outlaws of Mars,
May 11th, 2018. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | Otis Adelbert Kline | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey
Talia is not like normal 13-year-old girls. She likes to read adventure stories and she fantasizes about being a Herald for the queen of Valdemar. She does not want to get married to one of the dreary men in her patriarchal village. So, when a Companion — one of the blue-eyed white horses who belongs to a Herald — shows up without a rider, Talia is happy to help him find his way home and stunned to learn that she’s been chosen to be trained as a Herald at the academy.
May 7th, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Mercedes Lackey | Audio | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
The Swordsman of Mars by Otis Adelbert Kline
A few weeks back, I had some words to say about a book that was supposedly a major inspiration for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ JOHN CARTER OF MARS series, particularly the first two of the 11: A Princess of Mars (1912) and The Gods of Mars (1913). The book was Edwin L. Arnold’s Gulliver of Mars (1905), and anyone who’s read it must be forcibly struck by the similarities between the two authors’ conceptions of the distant Red Planet.
May 3rd, 2018. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | Otis Adelbert Kline | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
Penric’s Fox by Lois McMaster Bujold
Penric’s Fox is the third (according to internal chronology) novella in Lois McMaster Bujold’s PENRIC AND DESDEMONA series, a spin-off from her well-decorated FIVE GODS trilogy. Each of these novellas is essentially a chapter in Penric’s story and I assume that someday they’ll be combined together in one volume.
This particular story takes place after the events of Penric and the Shaman, so I would recommend reading it after that story and before Penric’s Mission.
April 26th, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Audio, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Lily Brooks-Dalton’s general fiction novel, Good Morning, Midnight (2017), is literary in nature but uses speculative elements to contemplate isolation, hope, despair and human connection. The book has beautiful prose, especially in some of the descriptions of the arctic, and interesting insights into human nature, but it was not a completely satisfying book for me. In a few places, the hand of the author can be seen forcing events in order to make the story work, and some of these tropes,
April 23rd, 2018. Marion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | Lily Brooks-Dalton | Edge, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
The Gone-Away World (2008) is a post-apocalyptic comedy/tragedy about our world before and after the Gone-Away Bombs have wiped up out much of humanity and the world we know. It is about Gonzo Lubitsch and his nameless best friend, who work for a special crew that is assigned to put of a fire along the Jorgmond pipeline, which produced the special material “Fox” that can eliminate the Stuff, the matter that is left over after gone-away bombs have removed the information from matter so that it no longer can form coherent form and structure.
April 19th, 2018. Stuart Starosta´s rating: 3.5 | Nick Harkaway | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold
This is Marion’s review of The Vor Game, Brothers in Arms, and Mirror Dance.
Miles Vorkosigan is nearly a dwarf, with bones as brittle as fine porcelain, and he is a Vor, one of the elite, the son of the Imperial Regent. The Vor, and everyone on Barrayar for that matter, are terrified of mutation because of their history, and Miles looks like a mutation even though he isn’t one. During the middle books of this series,
April 17th, 2018. Marion Deeds, Kat Hooper and Stuart Starosta´s rating: 3.5 | Lois McMaster Bujold | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Readers who were enthralled by Ilana C. Myer’s 2015 debut novel, Last Song Before Night, will be pleased to know that they can expect more of what they enjoyed in the sequel/companion novel, Fire Dance (2018). Myer’s prose is rich and imaginative, and her worldbuilding is multi-layered. For my own part, I think that many important details wouldn’t have made sense to me if I hadn’t read Last Song Before Night first,
April 11th, 2018. Jana Nyman´s rating: 3.5 | Ilana C. Myer | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Let’s face it, Jessica Jones’ season two was always going to suffer, at least from the outset, in comparison to season one for one simple reason: it was going to be pretty much impossible to come up with anything like the combination of Killgrave and David Tennant — an incredibly compelling villain played by an actor who so wonderfully (if one can use that word) and seductively inhabited that character. And there’s no doubt season two feels that lack of a compelling villain (one fully realizes how large a hole Tennant’s absence creates when he briefly returns in what I’d say was probably the best episode of the season).
March 30th, 2018. Bill Capossere´s rating: 3.5 | Film / TV | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi
The Android’s Dream (2006) is one of John Scalzi’s earlier books, and a stand-alone rather than part of a series, so I couldn’t resist given the obvious Philip K. Dick reference in the title. I decided to go into this one without knowing anything about the plot or reading any reviews at all. I know Scalzi’s humor and style from the OLD MAN’S WAR series, Redshirts and Lock In,
March 15th, 2018. Stuart Starosta and Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | John Scalzi | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
For those who've been following the Laundry Files series by Charles Stross, what is reported to be the final book…
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Hahaha! You might like the one "Shocktober" scene near the end!
For some strange reason, I get the feeling I might like this one! 😁