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New Monthly Comics: TEN GRAND by J. Michael Straczynski
In my previous two columns, I’ve talked about the advantages of having a “pull list” and buying comics on a monthly basis instead of merely waiting for a collection to come out as a trade edition. I also suggested a few titles that are good ones to start with right now since they are just beginning. In the first column on monthly comics, I recommended VELVET by Ed Brubaker and THE DREAM MERCHANT by Nathan Edmondson.
September 6th, 2013. Brad Hawley´s rating: 5 | J. Michael Straczynski | Comics | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
This is the second book in Isaac Asimov’s original FOUNDATION trilogy, which later became the FOUNDATION series. It first came out in book form in 1952, but it originally saw print in the form of two novellas, “Dead Hand” (originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, April, 1945) and “The Mule” (originally published in Astounding Science Fiction in November and December, 1945).
Like the first book in the series,
August 28th, 2013. Steven Harbin´s rating: 5 | Isaac Asimov | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Planetary: Spacetime Archaeology, Volume 4 by Warren Ellis & John Cassaday
This is it. The culmination of the PLANETARY series. Does it live up to the hype? Does the climax match the build up? Well, read on and we’ll see.
Issue 19 – “Mystery in Space”: There’s a strange artifact approaching earth from deep space and Elijah plans on seeing what mysteries it contains. Ellis pays homage to the Big Dumb Object in sci-fi and also draws on the ideas of generation starships, orbital habitats, and the remnants of precursor races.
August 16th, 2013. Terry Lago´s rating: 5 | Warren Ellis | Comics | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Planetary: Leaving the 20th Century, Volume 3 by Warren Ellis & John Cassaday
In this third volume of PLANETARY stories we not only get to step back for a moment and have a bit of a look at the adventures of Elijah Snow in his century of existence trying to keep the world strange, but we also get more details on the Four and their intersection with the Planetary organization prior to the current story arc. Ellis is able to play in a lot of cool sandboxes as a result and the genre mashing continues much to my personal glee!
August 9th, 2013. Terry Lago´s rating: 5 | Warren Ellis | Comics | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Swords of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Swords of Mars is the 8th of 11 JOHN CARTER OF MARS books that Edgar Rice Burroughs gave to the world. It first appeared serially in the Blue Book Magazine in six parts, from November 1934 to April 1935, and is one of the best in the series. For the first time since book 3, The Warlord of Mars, Carter himself takes center stage, rather than making a brief cameo appearance, and his return as the lead character is perhaps the best single element of this book.
August 5th, 2013. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Burn, Witch, Burn! / Creep, Shadow, Creep! by Abraham Merritt
Having conquered the field of fantasy (with such classics as The Moon Pool, The Ship of Ishtar and Dwellers in the Mirage) as well as the field of the bizarre yet hardboiled crime thriller (with his wonderful Seven Footprints to Satan), Abraham Merritt went on, in 1932, to prove that he could master the field of supernatural horror, as well. That he succeeded brilliantly should come as no surprise to readers of those earlier works.
July 29th, 2013. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Abraham Merritt | Horror | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Trained from childhood as a thief and con-artist par excellence, Locke Lamora employs a silver tongue and quicksilver mind to divest the rich of Camorr of their excessive wealth. No sooner do Locke and his associates initiate their latest scheme, however, than they find themselves at the mercy of the mysterious Gray King, who intends to use them as pawns in his bid to take over the city-state’s underworld. As the Gray King’s diabolical plan unfolds, Locke finds his skills tested as never before as he struggles not only for his own survival,
July 20th, 2013. Rob Rhodes, Greg Hersom, Kat Hooper, Marion Deeds, Terry Weyna, Tadiana Jones and Skye Walker´s rating: 4, 5 | Scott Lynch | SFF Reviews | 10 comments |
Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson
Jack Williamson’s Darker Than You Think is a one-shot horror-novel excursion for this science fiction Grand Master, but has nonetheless been described as not only the author’s finest work, but also one of the best treatments of the werewolf in modern literature. It has been chosen for inclusion in David Pringle’s overview volume Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels (“a relatively disciplined and thoughtful work,” Pringle writes, in comparing it to the author’s earlier space operas) as well as in Jones &
July 8th, 2013. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Jack Williamson | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Complete John Thunstone by Manly Wade Wellman
One of the subgenres of fiction that I’ve always been interested in is that of the “supernatural detective,” also sometimes known as “occult detective fiction.” Recent examples of the trope include the TV show The X-Files and the paranormal detective comic book character John Constantine, one of whose creators was Alan Moore. The stories in The Complete John Thunstone center around another character named John, one John Thunstone, a wealthy man-about-town occult detective created by fantasist and regional writer Manly Wade Wellman in the 1940’s.
June 26th, 2013. Steven Harbin´s rating: 5 | Manly Wade Wellman | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 8 comments |
Neil Gaiman’s THE SANDMAN might just be my favorite work of art. To me, it’s better than any painting, any album, any symphony, any movie, any poem, any play, and possibly, just possibly, any novel, which to me, as an English Professor, is the greatest art form of them all. I might even like THE SANDMAN better than Pride and Prejudice just for the sheer scope of the thing. If I had to go to that hypothetical island I’m often asked about,
June 21st, 2013. Brad Hawley´s rating: 5 | Neil Gaiman | Comics | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Picked up on the subtle clues, eh? :)
thanks Sandy!
Can't wait to read this!!
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess both you guys like Kay.
Geez, guys, a brace of remarkably well-written reviews here. Hat's off!