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To Honor You Call Us by H. Paul Honsinger
The term “military science fiction” has, at times, been misused. The military part of the science fiction gets lost, and in essence you have something that loosely approximates combat in the future. To Honor You Call Us, book one of H. Paul Honsinger’s MAN OF WAR series, is not cut from that cloth and it was almost shockingly good.
Max Robichaux is a young Union Space Navy Lieutenant with a history. He’s made mistakes in the past,
January 22nd, 2015. John Hulet´s rating: 4.5 | H. Paul Honsinger | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Whenever I see the words “book one” or “first in a series” on the cover of a book, I’m always a little leery about whether or not it’s going to end on a cliff-hanger. There’s a difference between a trilogy that’s essentially just one story divided into three parts, and a trilogy that’s composed of three relatively self-contained tales.
As the first in THE BONE MASK TRILOGY by Australian poet Ashley Capes, City of Masks is enough of its own story to leave you satisfied,
January 20th, 2015. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4.5 | Ashley Capes | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley
I have to admit, I groaned a little bit upon opening the envelope with my ARC of Brian Staveley’s The Providence of Fire. “Six hundred pages? Really, man?” might have slipped out as well. I liked the first in the series (The Emperor’s Blades) though I thought it had some flaws, giving it a solid three-star rating. But I had some serious doubts about a six-hundred page follow-up. Well,
January 19th, 2015. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4.5 | Brian Staveley | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
There’s not a lot to say about the plot of Pierce Brown’s Golden Son, the sequel to the fantastic Red Rising, because outside of the density and complexity of the story, which would necessitate a lot of summary space, Brown fills the novel with so many twists, turns, backstabs and back-back stabs that it would be difficult to offer up a synopsis that both gives a true sense of what happens and does not at the same time give spoiler after spoiler.
January 2nd, 2015. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4.5 | Pierce Brown | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
The City on the Edge of Forever by Harlan Ellison, Scot and David Tipton, illustrated by J.K. Woodward
“The City on the Edge of Forever” is almost universally considered one of the best, if not the best, Star Trek episodes. Famously penned by Harlan Ellison, and nearly as famously changed quite a bit, IDW Comics has come out with a comic of Ellison’s original Hugo-winning teleplay. Done in five installments via collaboration between Ellison and Scot and David Tipton, and illustrated by J.K.
December 29th, 2014. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4.5 | Harlan Ellison | Comics | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham
This third novel in Daniel Abraham’s LONG PRICE QUARTET is even more exciting than the first two novels. In the first book, A Shadow in Summer, we saw the Galts (the enemies of the city-states of the Khaiem) destroy the industry of the Khaiem’s most glorious city, Saraykeht. In the second book, A Betrayal in Winter, the Galts attempted to get control of the city of Machi by killing off the Khai’s sons and installing their own man as Khai.
December 17th, 2014. Kat Hooper and Bill Capossere´s rating: 4.5 | Daniel Abraham | Audio | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
The Necromancer’s House by Christopher Buehlman
The Necromancer’s House, by Christopher Buehlman, is a scary, funny, fast-paced urban fantasy novel with a rich voice and likeable characters. With its multiple viewpoints and several satisfying reveals along the way, it is one of the most well-crafted and exciting books I have read in a while.
Buehlman tells the story of Andrew Blankenship, a charming, brilliant modern wizard who drives an antique Mustang, wears his long black hair in a samurai bun, and goes to AA meetings regularly.
December 15th, 2014. Kate Lechler´s rating: 4.5 | Christopher Buehlman | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
What is a Superhero? by Robin S. Rosenberg and Peter Coogan (editors)
What is a Superhero?, a collection of 25 essays edited by Robin S. Rosenberg and Peter Coogan, doesn’t aim to present “the” answer to this oft-asked question. Instead, it throws open to the door to an array of answers (some of which are directly contradictory) from people across a wide spectrum of fields: philosophers, psychologists, comic book creators, cultural critics, etc. If, as is almost always the case in any collection, the individual essays vary in quality of insight,
December 11th, 2014. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4.5 | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Ender’s Game Alive by Orson Scott Card
This review assumes you have read Ender’s Game, or are familiar with it, so it may contain some spoilers for Ender’s Game.
Before becoming one of the of most accomplished science fiction authors of his generation, Orson Scott Card worked as a writer of full-length plays for BYU, where he studied. He also wrote audioplays on LDS Church history. It follows from his experience then, that when Orson Scott Card set his sights on adapting his hit novel Ender’s Game into Ender’s Game Alive,
December 8th, 2014. João Eira´s rating: 4.5 | Orson Scott Card | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Haunter of the Ring & Other Tales by Robert E. Howard
A very long time ago, when I was still in high school, Texas-born Robert E. Howard was one of my favorite authors, and this reader could not get enough of him, whether it was via such legendary characters as Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, Solomon Kane or Bran Mak Morn.
Flash forward more years than I’d care to admit, and one day I realized that I hadn’t read a book of Howard’s in all that intervening time.
December 3rd, 2014. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 4.5 | Robert E. Howard | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 8 comments |
Do it! One of the best things I've read in recent years.
This reminds me. I want to read Addie LaRue.
We’re in total agreement David!
I felt just the same. The prose and character work was excellent. The larger story was unsatisfying, especially compared to…
Hmmm. I think I'll pass.